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Pages in category "Royal Tank Regiment officers" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. [1] Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as the Tank Corps and the Royal Tank Corps, it is part of the Royal Armoured Corps.
26th (East Riding of York Yeomanry) Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Regiment; 40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment; 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment; 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment; 42nd Royal Tank Regiment; 43rd Royal Tank Regiment; 44th Royal Tank Regiment; 45th (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment; 46th (Liverpool Welsh) Royal Tank Regiment ...
Pages in category "Royal Tank Regiment soldiers" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Royal Tank Regiment soldiers (39 P) T. Tank commanders (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Tank personnel" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment - 1 + 2 battalions [14] The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Yorkshire Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions [14] The Royal Welsh - 1 + 1 battalions [14] The Mercian Regiment - 1 ...
The Angle-irons – Royal Anglian Regiment [5] [6] (humorous malapropism) The Armoured Chavalry – Royal Tank Regiment; The Armoured Farmers – 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (raised in the West Country [7]) The Assaye Regiment – 74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot (awarded a special Regimental Colour for service at the Battle of Assaye) [3] [8]
Post war, the Tank Corps was trimmed down and received the Royal prefix with the lettered battalions being numbered and "C" became 3rd Tank Corps. [1] In 1939 the 3 RTR was retitled from "3rd Royal Tank Regiment". [1] With the outbreak of the Second World War the army was once more deployed to France.