97th (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA 1939-1941
At the beginning of World War II, the Regiment was mobilised and was moved immediately to France as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). In May 1940 themain part of the Regiment was evacuated partly from Dunkirk.
385 Battery had been detached under 51st Highland Division and ended up at St Valery. It was not until mid-June that the Battery was one of the few units to escape from that area
After a year of coast defence duties in the UK, the regiment sailed to Iraq in October 1941 to join the 10th Indian Division.