Pembroke Yeomanry - World War II

World War II

During World War Two the Pembroke Yeomany on mobilisation formed two regiments the 102nd Field Regiment and the second line 146th Field Regiment.

The first line 102nd Field Regiment, formed from the two Pembrokeshire Batteries, landed at Algiers in February 1943 as part of the 1st Army. After the fall of Tunis they converted to a medium artillery regiment and landed in Italy with the 8th Army, in December 1943, by the end of the war they were on the banks of the River Po.

Having Reformed as field artillery,between the wars the Pembroke Yeomanry’s Cardiganshire Battery on the start on World War Two now became a separate Regiment. As 146th Field Regiment they landed in Suez in September 1942, joining the 8th Army and participated in the Battle of El Alamein, as part of the 7th Armoured Division, Artillery Group. When 7th Armoured returned from Italy in 1944 to prepare for the Normandy Landings, the Regiment was converted to medium artillery in England. The Regiment returned to France for the first time since the end of World War One in July 1944, crossing the Rhine on 17 March of the following year having acquired, from their badges, the nickname of the ‘Fishguard Express’.