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During [[Second World War|WW2]] the regiment’s title was Skinner's Horse (1st Duke of York's Own Cavalry). The regiments’s deployments during WW2 are detailed regiment was in India until it left Karachi on 20 September 1940 as part of 5th Indian Infantry Division .It arrived at Port Sudan 8 October 1940 and shortly after became part of Gazelle Force , formed to watch the frontier with Eritrea in the Gash Delta, north of Kassala. Late 1941 it moved to Egypt, then Cyprus. From March 1942 it was again in Egypt, part of the 10th Indian Motor Brigade, and was dispatched to Persia in September 1942. As part of the 10th Indian Infantry Division it arrived in Taranto, Italy on May 27th, 1944. It fought with the division in the advance to Florence in July 1944. In the final offensive in 1945, Skinner’s held the right flank of the 10th Indian Division with a WW2Talk Forum threadsquadron at Porto Nove under the XIII Corps. It led the advance beyond the Idice and by April 23rd it reached the Reno River.It left Italy November 22nd, 1945<ref> WW2Talk Forum thread [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/52297-1st-duke-of-yorks-own-skinners-horse-reconnaissance-regiment/ 1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse Reconnaissance Regiment] reply by ‘dryan67’ </ref>