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The 79th Armoured Division was first raised as a conventional armoured division, with one Armoured Brigade, one Infantry Brigade and supporting arms. [9] 27th Armoured Brigade - Attached to the 79th Armoured Division from 8 September 1942 until 20 October 1943. 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards; 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own).
The main vehicle in the 79th Armoured Division was the Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) which was a Churchill tank adapted for attacking defensive fortifications. The Churchill's main gun was replaced by a spigot mortar (known as "Petard") that fired a 40lb (18 kg) HE -filled projectile nicknamed the "flying dustbin" around 150 yards (140 m).
The vehicles of the 79th did not deploy as units together but were attached to other units. By the end of the war the 79th had almost seven thousand vehicles. The 79th Armoured Division was disbanded on 20 August 1945. Hobart returned to retirement in 1946 and died in 1957 in Farnham, Surrey. A barracks in Detmold, Germany, was named after him.
79th Armoured Division's formation sign. After training, the regiment crossed to Belgium where from 17 September 1944 it came under the command of 79th Armoured Division as divisional troops. This division was equipped with specialist armour ('Hobart's Funnies') and assigned its units to other formation as required for specific operations. [64 ...
The Regiment was the only unit equipped with specialist Sapper tanks and heir to the traditions of past assault and armoured engineers. The regimental crest included the bull's head device of 79th Armoured Division. 32 Armoured Engineer Regiment had three squadrons each of four troops, a total of 72 tanks.
The 30th Armoured Brigade was an armoured formation of the British Army that served in Western Europe Campaign as part of the 79th Armoured Division. [1] After the reformation of the Territorial Army in 1947, the brigade was re-created within the Territorials based in Scotland and finally disbanded by 1967.
42nd Armoured Division: 1 November 1941: 17 October 1943: UK did not see combat The division was formed from the reorganisation of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division. It was disbanded on 17 October 1943. [86] [87] 79th Armoured Division: 14 August 1942: N/A UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany Was not intended to act as single ...
[32] [d] For Astonia, the 79th Armoured Division provided the 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division with the 222nd Assault Squadron RE (AVRE), two Crab squadrons of the 22nd Dragoons and a Crocodile squadron of the 141st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (141 RAC). The division also had the 34th Armoured Brigade and the 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier ...