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5th Royal Tank Regiment (5 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army in existence for 52 years, from 1917 until 1969. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps. It originally saw action as E Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917.
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]
Starting last, the only element of the 7th Armoured Division to enter the battle was the 5th Royal Tank Regiment (5th RTR). At 17:00 near Cuverville it knocked out two Panzer IVs for the loss of four tanks and then cleared Grentheville, bypassed earlier in the day by the 3rd RTR, taking several prisoners. [144]
The brigade group (operating under 10th Armd Division) now had four armoured regiments (three of them composite): RSG, 1st/6th Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), 5th RTR/2nd RGH, and 3rd/4th CLY. Each had a light squadron of Stuarts or Crusaders and two heavy squadrons of Grants, totalling 40 Stuarts, 34 Crusaders and 92 Grants.
65th Anti Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery 15th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 22nd Armoured Brigade 1st Royal Tank Regiment 5th Royal Tank Regiment 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade 131st (Queens) Infantry Brigade 1st/5th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1st/6th Battalion ...
1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 25th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 31st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery; 1st Army Tank Brigade. 8th Royal Tank Regiment - equipped with Valentine infantry tanks (Lt Col Brooke) 42nd Royal Tank Regiment( Lt Col Willison later Lt Col Martin) 44th Royal Tank Regiment - Matilda II infantry tanks (Lt Col Yeo)
The Royal Armoured Corps Journal (1956). "43rd Royal Tank Regiment". The Royal Armoured Corps Journal. London: Committee of the Royal Armoured Corps Journal. pp. 77ff. OCLC 828213850. Zaloga, Steven (2015). Armored Champion: The Top Tanks of World War II. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books. ISBN 978-0-81171-437-2.
On 6 April, the Ariete Division reached Mechili and at noon, Ponath re-assembled his group near Derna airfield and cut one of the British withdrawal routes. The 5th Royal Tank Regiment (Lieutenant-Colonel H. D. Drew), repulsed two determined attacks and then counter-attacked with the last four British tanks. The rest of the British disengaged ...