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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.
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A Churchill tank of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment supporting infantry of the 8th Battalion, Royal Scots, part of 44th Brigade of 15th (Scottish) Division, during Operation Epsom, 28 June 1944. In December 1940, as part of the British Western Desert Force in Egypt , the 7th RTR contained Matilda infantry tanks and supported the 11th Indian ...
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 Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's, Lancashire and Border) – King's Own Royal Border Regiment March (De ye ken John Peel) (Quick); The Red Rose (Slow) The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – The British Grenadiers (Quick); Rule Britannia (Slow) The Royal Anglian Regiment – Rule Britannia/Speed the Plough (Quick); The Northamptonshire (Slow)
Cruiser tank Mk I of 1 RTR at Abbasia, Egypt, 30 May 1940.. During the Second World War (1939–1945) the regiment took part in the Siege of Tobruk in the summer of 1941 and the Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the advance up Italy in late 1943, the Normandy landings in June 1944 and the Western Allied invasion of Germany in 1945. [1]
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.
The 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment (41 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army from 1938 until 1956. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment , itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps . It was originally formed before World War II by the conversion of the 10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment , a Territorial Army infantry battalion ...