146th Field Regiment was a Royal Artillery (RA) unit being formed in Britain's part-time Territorial Army (TA) on the outbreak of World War II. Spun off from an existing Welsh field artillery unit, it took over two Batteries from Cardiganshire and was later granted its parent's subtitle '(Pembroke & Cardiganshire)'. After serving in Home Defence it was sent to Egypt, where it took part in the Second Battle of El Alamein and then joined 7th Armoured Division for the pursuit across North Africa and the Tunisian campaign. It served briefly in Italy, then was withdrawn to the UK and converted to medium artillery for Operation Overlord. Landing in Normandy in July 1944 it participated in many of the battles of the campaign in North West Europe. It was disbanded after the end of the war. Mobilisation With the rapid expansion of the TA after the Munich Crisis, existing units were ordered to form duplicates of themselves. 102nd (Pembroke and Cardiganshire) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (converted from the Pembroke Yeomanry in 1920) comprised two batteries from Pembrokeshire and two from Cardiganshire, and simply split off the latter on 8 July 1939 to form 146th Field Regiment with the following organisation: Regimental HQ at Aberystwyth 407 (Cardiganshire) Field Battery at Cardigan 408 (Cardiganshire) Field Battery at Aberystwyth At this time the establishment of an RA field regiment was two batteries, each of three four-gun Troops. The intention was to equip field regiments with 24 of the new 25-pounder gun-howitzers, but prior to the outbreak of war most TA units still had 18-pounder guns and 4.5-inch howitzers of World War I patterns, recently fitted with pneumatic tyres. 146th (Pembroke & Cardiganshire) Field Regiment Home defence When the TA was mobilised on 1 September, just ahead of the outbreak of World War II on 3 September, both regiments were assigned to the 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division, the duplicate of the TA's 53rd (Welsh) Division that was being formed in Western Command. This new division became operational on 18 September 1939. There now followed the period known as the Phoney War. Until 14 July 1940 the division underwent training in south-east Wales in Western Command. Then, after the British Expeditionary Force's evacuation from Dunkirk, III Corps HQ took over field command in Western Command, and 38th (W) Division was stationed around Liverpool. On 16 April 1941 the division moved to IV Corps defending invasion-threatened Sussex.