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Founded as B Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917, the 2 RTR first saw action in the First World War with the advent of tank technology. It later fought in the Second World War. In 1992, it merged with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, keeping their own original title. It became the second regiment to be equipped with the Challenger 2 in 1998. [1]
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]
Royal Scots Fusiliers; Royal Scots Greys; Royal Sussex Regiment; 4th Royal Tank Regiment; 7th Royal Tank Regiment; 10th Royal Tank Regiment; 43rd Royal Tank Regiment; 45th (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment; 49th Royal Tank Regiment; 51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment; Royal Ulster Rifles; Royal Warwickshire Regiment; Royal Welch Fusiliers ...
3rd Battalion, Royal Tank Regiment (from 11 August 1940) 22nd Heavy Armoured Brigade (assigned 15 January 1940, and renamed the 22nd Armoured Brigade on 14 April) [129] 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars; 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) 3rd Armoured Brigade (assigned 5 October 1940) [130]
Steven Roberts (2nd Royal Tank Regiment) is recorded as the first soldier killed in the operation (albeit by friendly fire); two Royal Engineers were killed the previous day by a hostile crowd. Full non-fatal casualty records are currently only available for the period after 1 January 2006.
The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. [1] Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as the Tank Corps and the Royal Tank Corps, it is part of the Royal Armoured Corps.
2nd Royal Tank Regiment (until 11 August 1940) 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (until 22 May, re-joined 19 June, left 30 June 1940, re-joined again 29 October 1940, left again 25 January 1941) 5th Royal Tank Regiment (until 18 February 1941, re-joined 24 March, left 14 April 1941) 1st King's Dragoon Guards (from 26 February until 22 March 1941)
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.