The The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery The Hertfordshire Yeomanry Regiments, Royal Artillery - Pt. 2 and 3 : Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment 1938-45 & the Searchlight Battery 1937-45; & Post-War Uni

This is the last of four volumes that constitute the official history of all Hertfordshire Yeomanry and Artillery units. Reorganisation after the First World War saw the amalgamation of the Hertfordshire Yeomanry and the two Royal Field Artillery batteries as a four-battery field artillery unit - initially brigade, from 1938 regiment - with centres at Hertford, St Albans, Hitchin and Watford.

As preparations for war were undertaken in the later 1930s, the Watford battery was first expanded into a three-battery anti-aircraft regiment.

Then, early in 1939, a second field artillery regiment was formed.

The three regiments mobilised in August - September 1939 and served throughout the Second World War, one field regiment in the Normandy Landings and in the subsequent campaign in North-West Europe, the other in Malaya and Singapore, and the anti-aircraft regiment in France (1940), in Anti-Aircraft Command and in North Africa and Italy.

A third field regiment formed during the war and the Barnet searchlight battery served in Anti-Aircraft Command. In 1947 two regiments, one field and one anti-aircraft, were formed in the reorganised Territorial Army, both carrying on the Hertfordshire Yeomanry title.

The post-war period up to the mobilisation of individuals for service in Iraq is assessed in detail, both nationally and locally.