Archive for category Foreign Forces ww2

356: Arab Legion, Aden Levies, Palestine Regt, RAF Armd Car Coy

Posted by Niels B Pedersen on Sunday, 27 February, 2011

356: Arab Legion, Aden Protectorate Levies, RAF Armd Car Coy
The Number 2 Armoured Car Company RAF was a military unit of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) which was part of Habforce and Kingcol during World War II.
Creation
On 7 April 1922, “Number 2 Armoured Car Company RAF” was formed at Heliopolis in the Kingdom of Egypt. The company was placed under the command [...]


14: RAF Levies Iraq, RAF Iraq etc

Posted by Niels B Pedersen on Sunday, 27 February, 2011

The Iraq Levies
Badges and Insignia
The Iraq Levies started life as a small unit of 80 horsemen called the Muntafiq Horse or Arab Scouts raised during the Great War. From the time of it’s first formation until it was formalised in 1919 it went under a number of names and its history is to say the [...]


355: RAF Iraq Levies (Assyrian Levies)

Posted by Niels B Pedersen on Sunday, 27 February, 2011

The story about the RAF Levies Iraq (Assyrian) by Gaby Kiwarkis and his web site is worth to visit and most of the pictures used is from his gallery.
http://assyrianlevies.info/home.php

1915- Major J I Eadie, Special service officer in the Muntafiq Division in Mesopotamia, recruited forty mounted Arabs from the tribes round Nasiriyeh, for duty under the [...]


121: Foreign Forces in UK in ww2 Belgium, Netherland etc Badges

Posted by Niels B Pedersen on Thursday, 25 November, 2010

Foreign Forces in UK in ww2 Belgium, Netherland etc Badges
Belgiun, Netherland, Luxemburg,
Norway, Denmark,


120: Foreign Forces in UK in ww2 Polish Forces in the West Badges

Posted by Niels B Pedersen on Thursday, 25 November, 2010

Foreign Forces in UK in ww2 Polish Forces in the West