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The Infantry Battalion of the HAC became an Officer Cadet Training Unit in 1939.  The 11th and 12th HAC Regiments of Royal Horse Artillery served in North Africa and in Italy during the Second World War.  In 1942 they were re-equipped with ‘Priest’ self-propelled guns (American 105 mm guns mounted on tank chassis).  The 13th HAC Regiment of Royal Horse Artillery fought in Normandy and Holland and across the Rhine into Germany.  The Company also provided a Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment and two Heavy Anti-Aircraft Batteries of the Royal Artillery.  Major R. H. Cain, VC (admitted to the HAC in 1928), was awarded the Victoria Cross while serving with the South Staffordshire Regiment during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944.  Over seven hundred members of the Company lost their lives during the Second World War.