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The Reconnaissance Corps, or simply Recce Corps, was a service branch of the British Army, ... 50th Reconnaissance Regiment formed April 1941 in the 50th ...
On 6 June 1942 it became 50th Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps [44] and in March 1943 reverted to the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as the 4th Battalion. [45] On 25 April 1944, the battalion was suspended; its personnel formed three independent machine gun companies [5] for the British armoured divisions of the 21st Army Group:
15th Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps; 15th Independent Reconnaissance Squadron; 15th Scottish Reconnaissance Regiment; 18th Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps; 43rd (Wessex) Reconnaissance Regiment; 45th Independent Reconnaissance Squadron; 46th Reconnaissance Regiment; 48th Independent Reconnaissance Squadron; 50th Reconnaissance Regiment; 54th ...
4th Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers—Divisional motorcycle reconnaissance unit 50th (Northumbrian) ... Commander Royal Army Service Corps, 50th Division
In 1938, it was redesignated the 50th Reconnaissance Squadron and was stationed at Hickam Field during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, the squadron became the 431st Bombardment Squadron , and served in the Pacific Theater, where the unit earned the Distinguished Unit Citation and the Navy Presidential Unit Citation .
5th Reconnaissance Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps; 7th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment (machine gun battalion) 5th Divisional Engineers ... 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 54th ...
This is a list of regiments within the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during the Second World War. On the creation of the corps in 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, it comprised those regular cavalry and Territorial Army Yeomanry regiments that had been mechanised, [ 1 ] together with the Royal Tank Regiment . [ 2 ]
XXX Corps continued its advance, with Guards Armoured Division to the right and 11th Armoured Division to the left. A column composed of 8th Armoured Brigade, with 50th Reconnaissance Regiment and the 9th Durham Light Infantry under command, provided left flank protection.