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	21st ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY
		The 98th (Bruce) Battery was mobilized on 24th May, 1940, as the 98th (Bruce) Anti-Tank Battery, a sub-unit of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, 5th Canadian Armoured Division, with which it served in Italy and North-West Europe.
		The 97th was mobilized on 1st September, 1939, as a sub-unit of the 5th Army Field Brigade, an Army Troops unit later designated 21st Army Field Regiment and disbanded in the United Kingdom on 21st November, 1943.
		These Regiments were originally organ-ized on 14th September, 1866, as the 30th Battalion of Wellington Rifles and the 32nd Bruce Battalion of Infantry respectively, and became the 30th Regiment "Wellington Rifles" and the 32nd Bruce Regiment on 8th May, 1900.
	www.prole.demon.co.uk /middlesex/21AT.html (288 words)

	The Royal Tank Regiment
		A composite squadron was formed by the 2nd and 5th Royal Tank Regiments and covered the 400 mile withdrawal to Cherbourg, while the main body of the Second left Brest by ship for England on 16 June 1940.
		The present Royal Tank Regiment, composed of two regular regiments, is the direct heir to the original armoured car pioneers of 1914, the Naval Brigade and the RNAS squadron which augmented the British Expeditionary Forces for the defence of Antwerp in August of that year.
		The tank, a revolutionary new weapon system, born of General Swinton's vision, was to break the stalemate of trench warfare and the dominance of the machine gun of the battlefields of Flanders sixteen years later.
	www.royaltankregiment.com /pages/MainFrame2.htm (3839 words)

	D Day Tanks and countdown to 60th anniversary of D-Day from the Tank Museum Bovington
		In the years between the wars, equipped with Medium Tanks, 5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps was a major player in the important tank exercises of that era.
		It was thus the first tank regiment ever to operate tanks in a desert environment.
		As E Battalion, Tank Corps it served on the Western Front and had a detachment in Palestine, where this photo was taken.
	www.d-daytanks.org.uk /regiments/royal-tank-regiment.html (253 words)

	44th Royal Tank Regiment [UK]
		The Gloucestershire Regiment in the war, 1914-1918 : the records of the 1st (28th), 2nd (61st), 3rd (Special Reserve) and 4th, 5th, and 6th (First-Line T.A.) Battalions.
		A brief history of the 44th Royal Tank Regiment 1939–1945, by Bill Dungey.
		Brown, A. A History of the 44th Royal Tank Regiment in the War of 1939-45.
	www.regiments.org /regiments/uk/volmil-england/vinf-so/gc-6.htm (223 words)

	Armour Regiments Page
		The present Royal Tank Regiment, composed of two regular regiments, is the direct heir to the original armoured car pioneers of 1914, the Naval Brigade and the RNAS squadron which augmented the British Expeditionary Forces for the defence of Antwerp in August of that year.
		In July 1941, all Royal Armoured Corps units were ordered to adopt the black beret, as worn by the tank regiments, but as H.M. King George VI was the regiments Colonel-in-Chief, he ordered that 11th Hussars were to continue to wear their rust coloured beret, with its cherry-picker band, for which the regiment was grateful.
		The Royal Horse Guards trace their origins to a force raised by Cromwell prior to the second invasion of Scotland, but the parliamentary officers were replaced by royalists in 1660.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/orgarmour.htm (20254 words)

	Articles - British Expeditionary Force
		2nd Field Regiment, RA 19th Field Regiment, RA 24th Field Regiment, RA 21st Anti-Tank Regiment, RA Royal Engineers
		5th Battalion Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
		7th Battalion Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
	www.kamero.net /articles/British_Expeditionary_Force (785 words)

	21st ANTI-TANK REGIMENT, ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY
		The 98th (Bruce) Battery was mobilized on 24th May, 1940, as the 98th (Bruce) Anti-Tank Battery, a sub-unit of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, 5th Canadian Armoured Division, with which it served in Italy and North-West Europe.
		The 97th was mobilized on 1st September, 1939, as a sub-unit of the 5th Army Field Brigade, an Army Troops unit later designated 21st Army Field Regiment and disbanded in the United Kingdom on 21st November, 1943.
		These Regiments were originally organ-ized on 14th September, 1866, as the 30th Battalion of Wellington Rifles and the 32nd Bruce Battalion of Infantry respectively, and became the 30th Regiment "Wellington Rifles" and the 32nd Bruce Regiment on 8th May, 1900.
	www.prole.demon.co.uk /middlesex/21AT.html (288 words)

	Royal Armoured Corps
		Regiments of the Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR, 2 RTR)
		Reformed in 1861 as the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
		Duke of Somerset's Regiment of Dragoons raised 1685
	militarystuff.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /reg_rac.html (288 words)

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		Royal Tank Regiment “Dunkirk Veterans” group of Nine.
		Royal Irish Regiment 1902-22 OR’s brass pagri badge.
		Royal Irish Regiment scarce 1902-22 OSD cap badge.
	www.bosleys.net /b57/results.html (288 words)

	Irish Military and Police Insignia Sales Catalogue
		D1K414 Queen's Royal Irish Hussars Tank Commander (circle) Tank On Shamrock Woven 5.00
		If Royal Mail costs exceed this amount, then the charge will be cost-price, i.e.
		L1A372 KK 2377 King's Regiment (Liverpool) 8th (Irish) Battalion Dowler; Birmingham QC A/A 15.00
	www.kellybadge.co.uk /irish.htm (288 words)

	Royal Dragoon Guards
		The Royal Dragoon Guards is a Challenger 2 equipped armoured regiment based in Munster, Germany.
		he Royal Dragoon Guards formed on 1st August 1992 as a result of the amalgamation of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
		The Regiment was split, with Black Horse Squadron, The Black Dragoons and Regimental HQ to the south of Basra.
	www.army.mod.uk /rdg (299 words)

	D Day Tanks and countdown to 60th anniversary of D-Day from the Tank Museum Bovington
		It was thus the first tank regiment ever to operate tanks in a desert environment.
		In the years between the wars, equipped with Medium Tanks, 5th Battalion Royal Tank Corps was a major player in the important tank exercises of that era.
		As E Battalion, Tank Corps it served on the Western Front and had a detachment in Palestine, where this photo was taken.
	www.d-daytanks.org.uk /regiments/royal-tank-regiment.html (299 words)

	Normandy Tour 2004
		Royal Canadian Artillery (4th, 5th and 6th Field, 2nd Anti-Tank, and 3rd
		Terry Copp, Canada’s foremost military history, and author of Fields of Fire: The Canadians in Normandy, will also be joining the tour for a few days.
		The price of the tour is $3,250 per person based on double occupancy (For those who want a single room, the single supplement is $695).
	info.wlu.ca /~wwwmsds/futurenortour2004.htm (449 words)

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		Royal Tank Regiment “Dunkirk Veterans” group of Nine.
		Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles Victorian Officer’s pouch belt plate.
		Royal Navy issue 1888 pattern Lee Metford bayonet.
	www.bosleys.net /b57/results.html (449 words)

	Uniforms of the Territorial Army (1939)
		The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1937 40 51st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 41 58th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 42 56th (Cornwall) Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 43 The North Midland Corps Signals 1939 44 7th/9th Bn.
		The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1939 45 4th/5th Bn.
		Royal Tank Regiment (Westminster Dragoons) 1939 49 Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939 50 Infantry T.A. ©2002 BJ, Jeff Allender.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/allender/39unif.htm (303 words)

	Uniforms of the Territorial Army (1939)
		The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 1937 40 51st (West Highland) Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 41 58th (Suffolk) Medium Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 42 56th (Cornwall) Anti-Aircraft Regiment Royal Artillery 1939 43 The North Midland Corps Signals 1939 44 7th/9th Bn.
		The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1939 45 4th/5th Bn.
		Royal Tank Regiment (Westminster Dragoons) 1939 49 Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939 50 Infantry T.A. ©2002 BJ, Jeff Allender.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/allender/39unif.htm (303 words)

	The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal)
		The present regiment perpetuates five cavalry and one armoured unit: the Royal Montreal Cavalry, the 5th Dragoons, the 6th Duke of Connaught's Royal Canadian Hussars (6th DCRCH), the 11th Argenteuil Rangers, the 17th Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars (17th DYRCH), and the 1st Motor Machine Gun Brigade.
		On the April 1, 1997 The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) became the establishment armoured regiment (tank) for the newly formed 34 Canadian Brigade Group.
		The regiment received its second guidon on December 3, 1974, the 100th anniversary of regimental status and its 135th year as a Canadian cavalry unit.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/the_royal_canadian_hussars__montreal_ (303 words)

	Somerset Military Museum - The Light Infantry
		Under present planning the 5th Battalion The Light Infantry will be formed from The Rifle Volunteers and an element of The Mercian Regiment, whilst Light Infantry badged companies will be retained in Durham and Yorkshire under command of the 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and 5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.
		Based in Paderborn, Germany as an Armoured Infantry (Warrior) Battalion, half the Battalion took part in the Second Gulf War as part of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment Battle Group.
		In 2004 the Army Board decided, as part of the future restructuring of the Infantry, that The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment should amalgamate and join The Light Infantry.
	www.sommilmuseum.org.uk /article.php?id=6 (303 words)

	Somerset Military Museum - The Light Infantry
		Under present planning the 5th Battalion The Light Infantry will be formed from The Rifle Volunteers and an element of The Mercian Regiment, whilst Light Infantry badged companies will be retained in Durham and Yorkshire under command of the 4th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and 5th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment.
		Based in Paderborn, Germany as an Armoured Infantry (Warrior) Battalion, half the Battalion took part in the Second Gulf War as part of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment Battle Group.
		In 2004 the Army Board decided, as part of the future restructuring of the Infantry, that The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment and The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment should amalgamate and join The Light Infantry.
	www.sommilmuseum.org.uk /article.php?id=6 (416 words)

	Structure of the British Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Note: Although one of the antecedent regiments of the Queen's Royal Lancers was the 5th Lancers, this regiment was formed in the 1850s, resurrecting the number of an old regiment.
		1st Royal Tank Regiment operates in a dual role; two squadrons serve in the NBC role as part of the Joint NBC Regiment, while the other is a main battle tank training squadron as part of the Combined Arms Training Centre.
		The Joint NBC Regiment is a specialised corps of the army tasked with defence against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Structure_of_the_British_Army (416 words)

	History
		Originally part of the 1st Canadian Army Tank Brigade, in May 1941 the Garry's were transferred to the 5th Canadian Armoured Division to form the 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade with the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) and the 1st Hussars.
		The Regiment was initially given the task of Divisional Cavalry Regiment for the 2nd Canadian Division.
		Now known as the 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division, this was the formation the Garry's would remain with until the end of the war.
	www.gatewest.net /~gknudson/hist.html (1923 words)

	Royal Dragoon Guards
		The Royal Dragoon Guards is a Challenger 2 equipped armoured regiment based in Munster, Germany.
		he Royal Dragoon Guards formed on 1st August 1992 as a result of the amalgamation of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
		The Regiment was split, with Black Horse Squadron, The Black Dragoons and Regimental HQ to the south of Basra.
	www.army.mod.uk /rdg (299 words)

	'Threads'
		�Second set of decals appear in Concord 7005 �US Tank Destroyers in Combat 1941-1945� by Steve Zaloga and depict a vehicle of 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery, Netherlands, May 1945.
		This unit was part of the 5th Canadian Armoured Division and I suspect would have had the divisional emblem and an arm-of-service marking as well as the individual vehicle markings provided.
		Spare track links are included complete with British-style racks but without any indication that they should be fitted on the nose armour.
	www.ipmscanada.com /th24-Achilles-01.html (299 words)

	Queens Royal Lancers
		The Queen's Royal Lancers was formed in 1993 by the amalgamation of the 16th/5th and 17th/21st Lancers.
		The Queen's Royal Lancers is an armoured cavalry regiment presently based in Catterick North Yorkshire, with Her Majesty the Queen as its Colonel-in-Chief.
		The Queen's Royal Lancers is equipped with the world's latest main battle tank - Challenger 2.
	www.army.mod.uk /qrl (248 words)

	Desert Storm Vets Role of Honour.
		Bovington Dorset, also Regimental Musem of The Royal Tank Regiment.
		SHQ, A Sqn, 16th/5th Queens Royal Lancers, 1 Arnd Div
		16/5th Queens Royal Lancers, Division Recce, 1st Armd Div.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/congress/9/dstorm.htm (1264 words)

	Corgi Die-cast Toy Military Vehicles - Items 31-40 of 60
		Hq, B Sq., 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 22nd Armored Brigade, 7th Armored Division, Holland, 1945 (1:50 Scale)
		Tank Regiments in the 22nd Armored Brigade were equipped with British cruiser tanks, including Cromwell Mark VI close support tanks with 95 mm howitzers.
		As the senior regiment in the 29th Armored Brigade it carried the number 51 on the red "arm of service" square and displayed red squadron symbols.
	www.zionantiquemall.com /page187 (403 words)

	Canadian Army - 3 September 1939
		Permanent Force B Company, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry: Esquimalt 5th Heavy Battery, RCA: Esquimalt Western Fortress Establishment, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals: Victoria No. 11 Detachment, Royal Canadian Engineers: Victoria No. 11 Detachment, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals: Victoria B.
		Permanent Force B Company, The Royal Canadian Regiment: Toronto RHQ, B Squadron, The Royal Canadian Dragoons: Toronto No. 2 Detachment, Royal Canadian Engineers: Toronto No. 2 Detachment, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals: Toronto The Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicle Training Centre: Camp Borden B.
		Permanent Force D Company, The Royal Canadian Regiment: St. Jean A Squadron, The Royal Canadian Dragoons: St. Jean No. 4 Detachment, Royal Canadian Engineers: Montreal No. 4 Detachment, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals: Montreal B.
	home.adelphia.net /~dryan67/orders/canada39.html (403 words)

	Corgi Die-cast Toy Military Vehicles - Items 31-40 of 60
		Hq, B Sq., 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 22nd Armored Brigade, 7th Armored Division, Holland, 1945 (1:50 Scale)
		Tank Regiments in the 22nd Armored Brigade were equipped with British cruiser tanks, including Cromwell Mark VI close support tanks with 95 mm howitzers.
		This particular tank had an additional stowage box added to the turret side and the so-called Normandy cowl deflector at the back.
	www.zionantiquemall.com /page187 (403 words)

	Anzio, Italy, 1944
		BRITISH - 1st Infantry Division, 46th Royal Tank Regiment(A battalion) and 2 Commando Battalions.
		The allies used the respite to relieve the British 56th Division with the 5th British Division, the U.S. 34th Division relieved the exhausted 3rd Division.
		The British 1st Division was shattered and had to be augmented by the British 56th Infantry Division and CCA of the American 1st armored Division.
	amh.freehosting.net /anzio.html (1740 words)

	Royal Armoured Corps
		Regiments of the Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR, 2 RTR)
		Duke of Somerset's Regiment of Dragoons raised 1685
		The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons, a.k.a.
	www.alanharding.com /Military/regiments/reg_rac.html (1740 words)

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