667th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Hampshire) TA

667th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (Hampshire) TA was a volunteer air defence unit of Britain's Territorial Army from 1947 until 1954.

History
The regiment was raised when the Territorial Army (TA) was reconstituted in 1947. It was designated 667 HAA Regiment RA (Hampshire) TA with Headquarters at Aldershot and equipped with 3.7-inch Anti-Aircraft Guns. It was Aldershot's first, and only, Territorial Army Artillery Regiment. It was raised and commanded from 1947-1951 by Lt Col Howard N. Cole OBE TD. The headquarters of the unit were at one of Aldershot's old cavalry barracks, Beaumont Barracks.

It formed part of 100 Army Group Royal Artillery (TA) until this formation was disbanded on 9 September 1948.

It was disbanded in 1954, ahead of the disbanding of Anti-Aircraft Command in 1955.

External Sources

 * British Army units from 1945 on
 * British Military History