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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.
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 Fighting Ninth – 9th Regiment of Foot later The Norfolk Regiment [1] [3] [10] The First and the Last – 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards [39] First of Track 1st Royal Tank Regiment (humorous from the infantry's history being named xth of Foot) Fitch's Grenadiers – The Royal Irish Rifles [1] [3] The Five-and-threepennies – 53rd Foot [3]
Squadron of 40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment (1947–1956) C Squadron, 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment (1956–1967) [51] 581 Company, 22 (Southport) Transport Column, RASC (1957–1962) [52] Became surplus to requirement in 1967, when the 40th/41st RTR, was absorbed by the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, and so it was converted into a ...
2nd Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles - renamed 8th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps on 22 March 1941; 9th Support Group (disbanded 12 June 1942) 11th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment; 6th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery; 74th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery; 54th (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal ...
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.
7th Royal Tank Regiment 9th Royal Tank Regiment. The headquarters of a tank or armoured brigade in 1944 was equipped with 10 tanks plus eight Armoured Observation Post (OP) tanks for the use of attached artillery units. By the time of the Normandy campaign it also included three Churchill bridgelayer tanks.