143rd (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA 1939-1945
The second regiment, 143rd (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA, was formed in 1939 and spent the first two years of the war in Iceland.
On its return to England, the Regiment joined 49th Division and served with them in Normandy and NW Europe.
Among major battles in which they gave fire support were Caen, Le Havre, and the Turnhaut Canal. They spent the winter of 1944-45 by the River Maas on the Dutch-German frontier. Their final action was to support the much delayed liberation of Arnhem in April 1945.