Royal Tank Regiment
Regimental Sergeant Major (Left) : Barrack Dress
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (Right) : No.1 Dress
Background: Exercise Scene
Tanks were first used in battle as part of Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps, at Flers on 15rh September 1916. On 28th July of the following year the new arm became a Corps in its own right and the Tank Corps fought its most well known battle at Cambrai on 20th November 1917. In 1923, His Majesty King George V ordered the title to be changed Royal Tank Corps (RTC). Mechanisation of the Cavalry in the following years led to the formation, in April 1939, of the Royal Armoured Corps comprising the newly mechanised regiments of the Cavalry and the RCT battalion. For the RTC this meant a change in title to Royal Tank Regiment.
Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (Right) : No.1 Dress
Background: Exercise Scene
Tanks were first used in battle as part of Heavy Section, Machine Gun Corps, at Flers on 15rh September 1916. On 28th July of the following year the new arm became a Corps in its own right and the Tank Corps fought its most well known battle at Cambrai on 20th November 1917. In 1923, His Majesty King George V ordered the title to be changed Royal Tank Corps (RTC). Mechanisation of the Cavalry in the following years led to the formation, in April 1939, of the Royal Armoured Corps comprising the newly mechanised regiments of the Cavalry and the RCT battalion. For the RTC this meant a change in title to Royal Tank Regiment.
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