page_title: Hertfordshire Yeomanry
section_title: 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
hierarchical_section_title: Hertfordshire Yeomanry / History / World War II / 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
caption_attribution_description: English: The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Sexton 25-pdr self-propelled guns of 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) firing against enemy positions, 12 April 1945.
context_page_description: The Hertfordshire Yeomanry is a unit of the British Army specializing in artillery and yeomanry that can trace its formation to the late 18th century. First seeing service in the Second Boer War, it subsequently served in both the First World War and the Second World War. Its lineage was maintained by 201 Battery, 100th Regiment Royal Artillery until that unit was placed in suspended animation in 2014.
context_section_description: The 86th (East Anglian) (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery was mobilised in September 1939, its batteries were:
  341 (St Albans) Battery
  342 (Hertford) Battery
  462 Battery – formed 18 November 1940 as 343 Bty, renumbered 18 January 1941
  In 1940 the regiment was equipped with 8 x 4.5 inch Howitzers & 4 x 18/25 pounder guns, it remained in the United Kingdom until 1944 being attached to various formations: 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division from mobilisation until 9 June 1942, then 42nd Armoured Division until 3 May 1943.  When 21st Army Group was formed in July 1943 to prepare for the Allied invasion of Normandy (Operation Overlord), 86th Fd Rgt was assigned to I Corps as a self-propelled field artillery regiment. During this time it used a number of new self-propelled artillery vehicles including the Bishop, Priest and the Sexton self-propelled guns. The regiment trained in amphibious assault techniques for Overlord as part of Second Army Troops, assigned to support 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division on D-Day (6 June 1944). It later participated in the following battles: Normandy, Antwerp, Nijmegen, Ardennes, Rhine Crossing, Bremen.
caption: Sexton 25-pdr self-propelled guns of 86th Field Regiment firing against enemy positions in April 1945
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