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1 SQN RAF Regiment Head For Afghanistan
(1 July 2008)
Less than a year after returning from a tour
of Iraq in which they lost four comrades, more than 160 gunners from 1
Squadron RAF Regiment, RAF Honington, took part in their final mock
battle before six months of protecting Nato forces at Kandahar airbase
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3 Sqn RAF Regiment Kandahar Airfield (© UK Crown
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After the evacuation of Dunkirk, the invasion of Norway,
Greece and the failure of Allied forces in Crete to successfully
defend the airfields which led to the fall of the island, it
became clear that the Army with it's resources severely
stretched might not be able to cope with the added burden of
defending RAF airfields and installations. It was decided to
form a new corps to specialise in defensive operations to secure
the airfields from attack and so by Royal Warrant from George VI
on the 1st of February 1942 the Corps of the Royal Air Force
Regiment was officially formed.
The roots of the Regiment go back even further than
that to the 1920s with the introduction of the RAF Armoured Car
Companies in the Middle East. No.1 AAC was formed at Heliopolis, Egypt
in December 1921, for service in Iraq. No.2 ACC was also formed at
Heliopolis on 7th April 1922 for service in Transjordan, and remained at
Amman. The Armoured Car Companies were incorporated into the RAF
Regiment in 1946.
RAF Armoured Car Companies
No II Armoured Car Company was incorporated into the RAF Regiment
on 3 October1946. In doing so the Company was renumbered No.2702
Squadron RAF Regiment. This was not a popular decision as many of the
Squadron were ex-aircrew who had been made redundant after the war, and
who had joined the armoured car companies on the assumption that they
would remain independent of the Regiment. A critical manning situation
on the Squadron was experienced by the end of 1946 and this was
attributed to the uncertainty of the Squadron’s future following its
amalgamation into the RAF Regiment. After pressure by Squadron members
and veterans it was renumbered as No II Armoured Car Squadron on 25 Feb
1947.
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