In the spring of 1942, the regiment embarked for the Far East in the Belfast-built liner RMS "Britannic", and after a long voyage, escorted for a long way by battleships HMS "Rodney", HMS "Nelson" & HMS "Valiant" at different times, reached Bombay. The guns and equipment were unloaded at Karachi and both elements assembled at Lahore before driving some 2,000 miles in convoy down the Grand Trunk Road to Calcutta. It was later transferred to East Bengal, before moving south to join XV Corps in Burma.