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A1E1 Vickers 'Independent", [1] one built but not taken into service. A2. A2E1 and A2E2: Medium Tank Vickers Mk I and Medium Tank Vickers Mk I (CS version) [2] A3. 3-man tank (Royal Ordnance Factory); Carrier MG Mk I [3] A4. Vickers Carden-Loyd light tanks.
Centaur Bulldozer. Centaur tank. Centurion (tank) Churchill AVRE Bobbin. Churchill Crocodile. Churchill Double Onion. Churchill Mk IV. Churchill Mk VII. Churchill NA75.
An outstanding achievement of the British Army had been the creation of the Experimental Mechanised Force in the late 1920s. This was a small Brigade-sized unit developed to field-test the use of tanks and other vehicles. The unit pioneered the extensive use of radio to control widely separated small units.
Formation. Cruiser Mk IVA tanks of the 1st Armoured Division on exercise during 1941. At the start of the Second World War, in September 1939, the British Army possessed two armoured divisions; one in Britain and a second in Egypt. [a] On 15 December 1939, the 2nd Armoured Division was established in Britain.
Green beret [4] - worn by British Commandos. Maroon beret [5] - from 1942 by airborne units. Tan beret [6] - Special Air Service from 1942 till 1944. Black beret [7] - by armoured units, including the Royal Tank Corps from 1924. Service Dress [8] - the field uniform at the start of the war until replaced by battledress.
The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was a British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with all-around tracks with multiple bogies, its ability to climb steep slopes, and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. It was one of the heaviest Allied tanks of the war.
The Infantry Tank Mark II, better known as the Matilda, is a British infantry tank of the Second World War. [1] The design began as the A12 specification in 1936, as a gun-armed counterpart to the first British infantry tank, the machine gun armed, two-man A11 Infantry Tank Mark I. The Mark I was also known as Matilda, and the larger A12 was ...
M3 and M5 Light Tanks – US supplied tank, called the 'Stuart' in British service. Despite the 'official' name of Stuart applied, most British primary sources refer to the tank as the 'Honey' [citation needed]. Light Tank (Airborne), M22-US supplied light tank called the 'Locust', was used in small numbers in 1945.