3 Sep 39 | Eastern Command | Worthing, Sussex, UK |
Sep/Oct 39 | British Expeditionary Force | Le Forêt & La Coquerie, France After completing gun positions, half the Regiment moved back to Le Forêt leaving one Troop per Battery forward |
Jan 40 | 1 Infantry Division | Lille, France |
May 40 | I Corps | Wavre, Belgium |
17-19 May 40 | I Corps | Kruis & Tournai, Belgium 392 Battery detached to 46 Division at St Pol but diverted to Aire |
22 May 40 | 46 Infantry Division | La Couture, Belgium |
28 May 40 | 44 Infantry Division | Outtersteene, Belgium |
29 May 40 | 44 Infantry Division | Saint Jans Cappel, France Guns caught in traffic jam. Guns & vehicles destroyed, troops proceeded on foot for evacuation over the beaches at Dunkirk |
Jun 40 | Home Forces | Okehampton, Devon, UK |
Jun 40 | 1 Infantry Brigade RA | Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK Detachments sent to Sussex for anti-invasion duties. They formed C 20 Anti-Tank Battery (391) & C 7 Battery (392) armed with Albion mounted 12 pdrs & Scammel mounted 4 inch Naval guns |
Jul 40 | Home Forces | Hall Green, Birmingham, UK Equipped with vehicles for West coast defence. Vehicles were tradesmen’s vans and 1 old Rolls Royce car |
Jul 40 | Home Forces | Ince Blundell Park, Lancashire, UK Sussex detachments rejoined. From here and later Huyton, detachments were sent out to man roadblocks and static guns |
Oct 40 | Home Forces | Huyton, Lancashire, UK Part of 391 Battery with Hotchkiss 6 pdrs at Barford forming part of outer defences of Birmingham. Remainder of Battery on airfield defence in Tarvin. 392 Battery in detachments from Maryport to Speke with weapons ranging from 6 pdrs (obsolete submarine guns) to 1913 vintage 13 pdrs |
Dec 40 | 5 Corps | Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK |
Aug 41 | Depot Regiment | Larkhill, Wiltshire, UK |
Nov 41 | Home Forces | Sturminster Newton, Dorset, UK |
Mar 42 | Home Forces | Isle of Wight, UK |
Apr 42 | Home Forces | Wimborne, Dorset, UK |
Sep 42 | 10 Armoured Division | Kabrit, Egypt |
Oct 42 | 10 Armoured Division | Alamein, Egypt |
Nov 42 | 10 Armoured Division | Galal, Egypt |
Nov 42 | 10 Armoured Division | Mersa Matruh, Egypt |
Dec 42 | Middle East Forces | Cairo, Egypt |
Feb 43 | Middle East Forces | Alexandria, Egypt |
Jul 43 | 8 Army | Sicily |
Sep 43 | 8 Army | Reggio, Rosarno & Taranto, Italy |
Oct 43 | 8 Army | Manfredonia & Foggia, Italy |
Nov 43 | 8 Army | Termoli & River Sangro, Italy |
Dec 43 | 8 Army | San Vito, Italy |
Jan 44 | 8 Army | Naples & Mondragone, Italy |
Feb 44 | 8 Army | Cassino, Italy |
Apr 44 | 8 Army | Nola, Italy |
May 44 | 8 Army | Mignano & Roccasecca, Italy |
Jun 44 | 8 Army | Tivoli & Lake Trasimene, Italy |
Jul 44 | 8 Army | San Marino & Poggibonsi, Italy |
Aug 44 | 8 Army | Strada, Italy |
Sep 44 | 8 Army | San Martino, Italy |
Oct 44 | 8 Army | Castel del Rio, Italy |
Dec 44 | 8 Army | Monte Grande, Italy |
Jan 45 | 8 Army | Tamborella, Italy |
Feb 45 | 8 Army | Vicchio, Italy |
Mar 45 | 2 Army | Menin, Belgium |
Apr 45 | 2 Army | Dunkirk, France |
Apr 45 | 2 Army | Duiven, Huissen & Dodewaard, Holland |
In April 1945 the Regiment moved to the Lubeck area of Germany as occupation forces. Demobilisation was started in October 1945 and the Regiment finally placed in suspended animation in June 1946.
Batteries
3 Sep 39 | 391, 392 (Surrey Yeomanry) |
1 Jan 41 | 391, 392, 471 |
Equipment
1940 | 18/25 pdr |
Jan 41 | 4 x French 75mm guns (471 Battery), 2 x 25 pdrs each (391 & 392 Batteries) |
Apr 41 | 24 x 25 pdrs |
Sep 42 | Stuart Observation Post Tanks |
Apr 43 | M7 105mm Self Propelled Priest |
Mar 45 | 25 pdr Self Propelled Sexton |