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The 9th Royal Tank Regiment (9 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army active during the Second World War. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps. It was reformed in late 1940 as a hostilities-only regiment.
The 31st Army Tank Brigade was formed in the UK on 15 January 1941, in Northern Command and comprised the 9th Royal Tank Regiment and 10th Royal Tank Regiment. The 141st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (141 RAC) was added on 8 November 1941 and on 29 November the brigade was transferred to South Eastern Command.
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On 24 April Z Company was across the Canal Bianco, but this was too wide for an ARK, and the engineers had to build a Bailey bridge before the tanks (12th Royal Tank Regiment) could cross. While that was being built, 9th Royal Fusiliers and the tank squadron commander pushed on to reconnoitre the last obstacle before the great river.
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A Churchill tank of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment supporting infantry of the 8th Battalion, Royal Scots during Operation Epsom, 28 June 1944. The first two and half years of the brigade's existence were spent in training in the south of England and it saw its first active service in the Normandy bridgehead . [ 2 ]
638th Regiment, Royal Artillery was reformed as 588th Light Anti-aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery. On 1 September 1950 it was converted to infantry under its original title (5th Battalion) and simultaneously absorbed into the 4th Battalion [50] 43rd Royal Tank Regiment was reconstituted as an armoured regiment