World War II
Dunkirk for evacuation in Operation Dynamo. The regiment moved to the Middle East and served in the 10th Army as part of the 10th Indian Division in Iraq during 1941. It later joined the 7th Armoured Division the Desert Rats in July 1942, being involved in the Battle of Alam el Halfa the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, until October 1943 when it rejoined the 10th Indian Division, serving in North Africa, Palestine and Italy, where it ended the war on the Adriatic coast near Trieste.
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