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"The Royal Tank Regiment is itself a regiment of the British Army, part of the Royal Armoured Corps. However, as a result of the above, both its "battalions" are formally titled regiments. This can cause some confusion, with the regiment currently being composed of two regiments."
Are you sure this is correct? While the units maybe called 1RTR, 2RTR etc it stands for the 1st battalion the Royal Tank Regiment etc per the order of battle by Joslen. EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 19:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
1RTR does NOT stand for "1st Battalion the Royal Tank Regiment" it does stand for "1st Royal Tank Regiment", a regiment in the Royal Tank Regiment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.77.193 ( talk) 13:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
The website mentioned above is the Regiment Association site NOT a British Army site. The British Army site lists both the 1RTR and the 2RTR as regiments. For once I think the Wikipedia article gives an accurate description of the Regiments naming and organisation. 86.178.77.193 ( talk) 12:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Just did a major revision of the site, rearranged paragraphs in date order, corrected a few points, added some info but mainly just reorganised how info is shown.
Just how much information should be provided on the Armoured Car Companies? The most obvious thing to include is a list of the Yeomanry Regts that converted. However, I don't want to put too much info in as it would be straying away from the subject - after all the page is about the RTR and the Armoured cars were RTC (although it seems that the Westminster Dragoons enjoyed 5 months in the RTR)
During the north african campaign, a large number of dummy tanks were built as part of the plan to deceive the axis forces as to the whereabouts of allied armour. These tanks were grouped into Regiments - the wiki article mentions the creation of 4 such units in 1941, without saying what the unit designations were. One source lists 10 Regiments and suggests that they were part of the RTR; another source confirms the id of 3 units and says they were in the 74th Armoured (Tank?) Bde in October 1942. If these truly were in the RTR, I would really appreciate some good sources.
Finally, saw a snippet that suggested the Scorpion Regt that was formed in 1943 was RTR. Regiments.org says RAC, but I've learnt from experience that its not too wise to overly rely on it. Glevum ( talk) 02:45, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
The Colonel Commandant of The Royal tank regiment is Lieutenant General CM Deverell MBE not Brigadier Allison he is a Deputy Colonel Commandant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colin001 ( talk • contribs) 09:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
http://www.royaltankregiment.com/Uploads/Files/en-GB/RAC_Newsletter_Dec_2015.PDF
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"The Royal Tank Regiment is itself a regiment of the British Army, part of the Royal Armoured Corps. However, as a result of the above, both its "battalions" are formally titled regiments. This can cause some confusion, with the regiment currently being composed of two regiments."
Are you sure this is correct? While the units maybe called 1RTR, 2RTR etc it stands for the 1st battalion the Royal Tank Regiment etc per the order of battle by Joslen. EnigmaMcmxc ( talk) 19:00, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
1RTR does NOT stand for "1st Battalion the Royal Tank Regiment" it does stand for "1st Royal Tank Regiment", a regiment in the Royal Tank Regiment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.77.193 ( talk) 13:00, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
The website mentioned above is the Regiment Association site NOT a British Army site. The British Army site lists both the 1RTR and the 2RTR as regiments. For once I think the Wikipedia article gives an accurate description of the Regiments naming and organisation. 86.178.77.193 ( talk) 12:57, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
Just did a major revision of the site, rearranged paragraphs in date order, corrected a few points, added some info but mainly just reorganised how info is shown.
Just how much information should be provided on the Armoured Car Companies? The most obvious thing to include is a list of the Yeomanry Regts that converted. However, I don't want to put too much info in as it would be straying away from the subject - after all the page is about the RTR and the Armoured cars were RTC (although it seems that the Westminster Dragoons enjoyed 5 months in the RTR)
During the north african campaign, a large number of dummy tanks were built as part of the plan to deceive the axis forces as to the whereabouts of allied armour. These tanks were grouped into Regiments - the wiki article mentions the creation of 4 such units in 1941, without saying what the unit designations were. One source lists 10 Regiments and suggests that they were part of the RTR; another source confirms the id of 3 units and says they were in the 74th Armoured (Tank?) Bde in October 1942. If these truly were in the RTR, I would really appreciate some good sources.
Finally, saw a snippet that suggested the Scorpion Regt that was formed in 1943 was RTR. Regiments.org says RAC, but I've learnt from experience that its not too wise to overly rely on it. Glevum ( talk) 02:45, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
The Colonel Commandant of The Royal tank regiment is Lieutenant General CM Deverell MBE not Brigadier Allison he is a Deputy Colonel Commandant — Preceding unsigned comment added by Colin001 ( talk • contribs) 09:07, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
http://www.royaltankregiment.com/Uploads/Files/en-GB/RAC_Newsletter_Dec_2015.PDF
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