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4 unusual facts about Royal Armoured Corps


Besa machine gun

It was considered by BSA and the Ministry of Supply that the industrial, technical, and logistical handicap of converting the design to the .303 round was more onerous than retaining the original calibre, especially given that the chain of supply for the Royal Armoured Corps was already separate from the other fighting arms of the British Army.

Company quartermaster sergeant

Squadron quartermaster sergeant is the equivalent in the Royal Armoured Corps, Special Air Service, Royal Engineers, Royal Corps of Signals, Army Air Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Logistic Corps, Honourable Artillery Company, and formerly in the Royal Corps of Transport.

Corps of Army Music

The 10 man strong Light Cavalry Band will be amalgamated with the Heavy Cavalry and Cambrai Band to form the Band of the Royal Armoured Corps.

Troop

Household Cavalry and Royal Armoured Corps: Three or four armoured fighting vehicles commanded by a subaltern, i.e. effectively the same level element as an infantry platoon.


Cromwell tank

The tank equipped the armoured reconnaissance regiments, of the Royal Armoured Corps, within the 7th, 11th, and Guards Armoured Divisions.

Ginger You're Barmy

Like the narrator, he himself was drafted into the Royal Armoured Corps after graduating in English from London University and did his training at Catterick Camp before working as a clerk in Bovington Camp in Dorset.

Gordon Pritchard

Pritchard joined the Royal Armoured Corps in 1992 aged 18, and was assigned as a gunner to a tank squadron based in Warminster.

Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale

He commanded a special service squadron of three Valentine tanks of the Royal Armoured Corps in the invasion of Madagascar in 1942 and the subsequent six-month campaign to liberate it from Vichy French control.

Philip Bowden-Smith

This brigade was composed of Yeomanry cavalry regiments of the Territorial Army which had been converted to armoured car regiments after WWI, but had been transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps and were now training in the Cruiser tank role.

Washington Singer

The estate was bequeathed to his son Grant Singer but he was killed in action during World War II at the 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein while serving with the Royal Armoured Corps, 10th Royal Hussars.


see also

43rd Royal Tank Regiment

43 RTR was stationed at Welbeck Abbey, where it provided training courses for the other battalions in the brigade: 144th and 148th Regiments Royal Armoured Corps.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong

All three branches of the Armed Forces – the Malaysian Army (represented by the Royal Malay Regiment, the Royal Armoured Corps and others), the Royal Malaysian Navy, and the Royal Malaysian Air Force – participate in the Trooping, in their No. 1 uniforms.