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The 6th Royal Tank Regiment (6 RTR) was a regiment of the Royal Tank Regiment, of the British Army, until 1959. It originally saw action as 6th Battalion Tank Corps in 1917. First World War
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]
Two Light Tank Mk VIB; Four motorcycles; Four Bedford OXD 30-cwt lorries; Two 15-cwt trucks; One 15-cwt water bowser; One 'Car Utility'. In 1942 the tanks of A Squadron 6th Royal Tank Regiment (which had sailed from Alexandria) arrived on the island. By 30 June 1942 the British armour was organised thus: [4]
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.
1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps (from 22 July 1945) 6th Support Group (from 1 November 1940, disbanded 1 June 1942) [21] 12th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Honourable Artillery Company) (left 31 May 1942) 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (left 31 May 1942) 51st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (left 31 May 1942)
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.
British infantry the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment aboard Sherman tanks near Argentan, 21 August 1944 Men of the British 22nd Independent Parachute Company, 6th Airborne Division being briefed for the invasion, 4–5 June 1944 Canadian chaplain conducting a funeral service in the Normandy bridgehead, 16 July 1944 American troops on board a LCT, ready to ride across the English Channel to France ...
On 1 November 1938 the battalion became 44th Battalion (6th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment), Royal Tank Regiment, soon afterwards redesignated as 44th Royal Tank Regiment (44th RTR). After the Munich Crisis the TA was rapidly doubled in size, and 44th RTR formed 50th Royal Tank Regiment (50th RTR) as a duplicate unit in April 1939. [2] [4] [3]