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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] As the war progressed and further horsed regiments were mechanised, they joined the corps, together with new (armoured) cavalry regiments that were raised for the hostilities. The RAC created its own training and support regiments, and in 1941 and 1942 a number of infantry battalions were converted to armoured regiments and joined the RAC.[3] Lastly, the RAC subsumed the Reconnaissance Corps in 1944.[4][5]
In the list below, the date refers to the date when the regiment joined the RAC.
- ^ "Royal Armoured Corps at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 3 January 2006. Retrieved 2006-03-10.
- ^ "The Royal Tank Regiment at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 3 January 2006. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
- ^ Forty 1998, pp. 50–51
- ^ Forty 1998, p. 63
- ^ "Reconnaissance Corps at regiments.org by T.F.Mills". Archived from the original on 3 January 2006. Retrieved 2012-07-09.
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