Its name is pronounced "three five", The battery is one of the sub-units of 39th Regiment Royal Artillery, part of the British Army.
The rest of the Battery are back in Newcastle with the Regiment providing support to the Troops deployed.
35 Battery were the first Battery from 39 Regiment RA " The Welsh Gunners " to deploy to Iraq on Op Telic 7 where they re-rolled to STA ( surveillance and target acquisition ) to cover 5 Regiment RA commitment in 2005.
From December 1939 to March 1940 the Battery was based at Auchy until it fought its way back to Dunkirk, embarking on 1–2 June after having to destroy its guns on 31 May 1940.
21/24 Battery initially took on an anti-invasion role in Devon but was re-equipped with 18-Pounder guns in October 1940.
1946 - Immediately after the War the Battery was involved in internal security work against the Dacoits in Burma.
1950-1956 - The Battery was involved, with 25 Field Regiment, in supporting anti-terrorist operations in Malaya.
Whilst based in Dortmund it deployed with Rapier to the Falkland Islands in 1986, and took on infantry roles in Northern Ireland, and Cyprus (1990, 1999, 2003).
35 Battery, along with 22nd Air Defence Regiment, was put into suspended animation on 1 April 2004.