World War II
At the start on World War II, the Glamorgan Yeomanry now known as the 81 (Welsh) Field Regiment RA(TA), which consisted of two batteries. The 323 (Glamorgan) and the 324 (Glamorgan) they would serve in the North western Europe Campaign from June 1944 attached to the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division.
There was also a second line regiment formed in 1939, the 132 (Welsh) Field Regiment RA(TA). This new Regiment's formation was the 322 (Glamorgan), 321 (Glamorgan) and the 496 Batteries all equipped with 25 pounder field guns. They were deployed on active service as part of the 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division and the 78th Infantry Division, in North Africa, at Tebourba and Tunisia in Sicily and in Italy taking past in the Monte Cassino battles at the end of the war they were in Austria.
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