The 1st Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel L. Corbett-Winder, marched 1,000 miles in seven days from Tmimi and arrived in time to rejoin the 7th Motor Brigade in the 1st Armoured Division just before the march to El Hamma, 26th to 29th March.

The 2nd Battalion in this battle, and for four days before it, was continually engaged under the 7th Armoured Division.

The enemy fought another defensive battle at Wadi Akarit, after which he continued his retreat to a position in the neighbourhood of Bou Thadi, sixty miles south of Tunis.

1st Battalion Joins The 1st Army

On 17th April the 1st Armoured Division, including our 1st Battalion) marched from Bou Thadi to join the First Army. The First Army and the Americans had landed in Algeria in November, 1942, under the command of the American General Eisenhower, and had advanced on Tunisia from the West. After a march of some 150 miles the 1st Armoured Division moved up into the battle at El Aroussa on 21st April.

Final Operations, Argoub-el-Megas, Fall of Tunis, April to May 1943

From 21st April until the final surrender of the enemy on 10th May the 1st Battalion was continuously in contact with the enemy. Reconnaissance and patrols, night and day, culminated in a full-scale night attack on 29th April on the heights of Argoub-el-Megas, when the Battalion gained all objectives with considerable losses in "A" Company.

The enemy fell back fighting. Tunis was occupied on 3rd May and the last phase took place in the Cap Bon Peninsula a week later, where the 1st Battalion witnessed the unconditional surrender of 40,000 German and Italian troops. Rommel escaped to Italy in an aeroplane.

Thus the Battalion, which opened the war in North Africa at Fort Capuzzo in June, 1940, was still in the forefront of the battle three years later at the finish of the last campaign.

The 2nd Battalion finished the campaign with the 4th Light 2nd Bn. Armoured Brigade in the Eighth Army.

At the end of June His Majesty The King visited both Battalions.