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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.
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]
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.
The armoured brigade group would have three armoured regiments, a motor battalion, an artillery regiment (including an anti-tank battery of 16 guns; either 2-pounders or 6-pounders) as well as its three batteries of 25-pounder gun-howitzers, a light anti-aircraft battery of 18 guns, a field squadron of Royal Engineers and various other ...
In Grainville-sur-Odon and le Valtru: 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, 9th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and 9th Royal Tank Regiment. [ 78 ] ) held their positions, launching local counter-attacks to retake lost ground and eventually the German offensive was stopped, within 0.6 mi (0.97 km) of linking up with the lead elements of ...
148th Regiment RAC was formed in November 1941 by the conversion to the armoured role of the 9th Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), a war service battalion hat had been raised in 1940 as part of the rapid wartime expansion of the British Army. [1]
The 5th Battalion was converted to a searchlight battalion on 1 November 1938 as 5th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (53rd Searchlight Regiment). [7] At the outbreak of the war, it was assigned to 30th (Northumbrian) Anti-Aircraft Brigade , 7th Anti-Aircraft Division as part of the anti-aircraft defences for the North East . [ 49 ]
2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers; 6th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment; 2/6th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment; Divisional Troops. 1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars - (16 January 1943 - 10 July 1943) 6th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery - (12 June 1942 - 10 July 1944) 141st (Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery - (12 ...