222nd (Derbyshire) Battery HAA / 262nd Heavy Anti Aircraft / 438th LAA Regiment Royal Artillery / Royal Engineers Embroidered Cloth Formation Sign Designation Flash Patch Arm Badge

In good condition, but mounted on a thin piece of card which in turn has a travel ticket stuck to reverse issued in Rabat (Morocco). The card and ticket with a tear otherwise the sign itself is in excellent bright condition. Became 438th LAA Squadron Royal Engineers in 1961.

Whilst stationed in Malta in WW2, members of 222nd HAA Regiment RA as "P " Battery adopted the Maltese Cross on a shield vertically divided red and blue. Subsequent incarnations of this unit wore the same badge as the 262nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment and later 438th LAA Regiment Royal Artillery, which became Royal Engineers in 1961.

Litchfield "The Territorial Artillery 1908 - 1988" fig 49 & BoBD (Jon Mills) No 5353 refer.

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