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  2. 9th Royal Tank Regiment - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 31st Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    A Buffalo of 4th Royal Tank Regiment unloads a jeep during the crossing of the Rhine, 24 March 1945 On 2 February 1945 the unit became the 31st Armoured Brigade . [ 7 ] The 7th RTR, with its Crocodiles, returned on 14 February and the brigade, as part of the 79th Armoured Division, played its part in the Operation Plunder , the crossing of the ...

  4. List of Royal Armoured Corps Regiments in World War II

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    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]

  5. List of British Regular Army regiments (1962) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of British Regular Army regiments after the Army restructuring caused by the 1957 Defence White Paper.The paper set out the reduction in size of the Army to 165,000 following the end of National Service and the change to an entirely voluntary army; units were to be disbanded or amalgamated over two phases, to be completed in 1959 and 1962.

  6. 9th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    74th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - (12 June 1942 - 6 November 1943) 92nd (Gordon Highlanders) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery - (12 November 1943 - 10 July 1944) 54th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery - (12 June 1942 - 2 March 1944) 150th (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal ...

  7. British Order of Battle at the Aden Emergency - Wikipedia

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    22 SAS Regiment; Royal Armoured Corps. 10th Royal Hussars; 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards; 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards; Queen's Own Hussars; Queen's Royal Irish Hussars; 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers; Royal Tank Regiment. 1st Royal Tank Regiment; B Sqn 5th Royal Tank Regiment; Guards Division. 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards; 2nd ...

  8. 34th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  9. A Bridge Too Far (film) - Wikipedia

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    A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic historical war film directed by Richard Attenborough.It depicts Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied operation in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II; the film's screenplay, by William Goldman, is based on a book of the same title by historian Cornelius Ryan. [5]