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spidge · 06-10-2007, 03:34 PM

DEMS - Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships).

The Maritime RA had its beginnings in the early part of the war when the Admiralty requested
the Regiment to provide 500, 2 man LMG teams for embarking on merchant coasters. Taking with them either Lewis
or Bren guns, they were to provide AA defence for the vessels.
With the increase in severity of attacks on shipping, the Maritime Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA was formed in 1941.

Read more here:

http://www.ra39-45.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/maritime/

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spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,317 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	DEMS - (Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships). DEMS - Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships). The Maritime RA had its beginnings in the early part of the war when the Admiralty requested the Regiment to provide 500, 2 man LMG teams for embarking on merchant coasters. Taking with them either Lewis or Bren guns, they were to provide AA defence for the vessels. With the increase in severity of attacks on shipping, the Maritime Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA was formed in 1941. Read more here: http://www.ra39-45.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/maritime/ __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm