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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Gun_Corps Machine Gun Corps] Wikipedia | |||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tank_Regiment Royal Tank Regiment] Wikipedia | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tank_Regiment Royal Tank Regiment] Wikipedia | ||
*[http://www.tankmuseum.org/home The Tank Museum] at Bovington Dorset | *[http://www.tankmuseum.org/home The Tank Museum] at Bovington Dorset | ||
**[http://www.tankmuseum.org/Archive_and_Reference_Library Archive and Reference Library] | **[http://www.tankmuseum.org/Archive_and_Reference_Library Archive and Reference Library] | ||
*[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/default.aspx The Royal Tank Regiment Association] | *[http://www.royaltankregiment.com/en-GB/default.aspx The Royal Tank Regiment Association] | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffery_armored_car Jeffery armored car] Wikipedia | |||
*[http://armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/jeffery-russell-armoured-cars-of-7th.html Jeffery-Russell Armoured Cars of the 7th Armoured Motor Battery (AMB). Waziristan, ca. 1920] armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com Posted by Jose Luis Castillo | |||
*[http://www.crossley-motors.org.uk/history/military.html Crossley Military Vehicles after WW1] crossley-motors.org.uk | |||
===Photographs=== | ===Photographs=== | ||
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/microsites/war-horse/explore/legacy/mechanisation/attachment/110165/ Photograph: Jeffery Quad armoured cars on reconnaissance in Waziristan, 1920] National Army Museum | |||
*[http://www.angelfire.com/pq2/armour/NWFP_30s Photographs North-West Frontier Province, 1930s] The photographer was probably a member of the 8th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps. From “Andrew M Brownhill" | *[http://www.angelfire.com/pq2/armour/NWFP_30s Photographs North-West Frontier Province, 1930s] The photographer was probably a member of the 8th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps. From “Andrew M Brownhill" | ||
*[http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=46719559@N04&q=Royal%20tank%20corps%20armoured%20cars%20in%20India%201920s Photographs of Royal Tank Corps armoured cars in India 1920s], from ‘through their eyes' photostream flickr.com | *[http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=46719559@N04&q=Royal%20tank%20corps%20armoured%20cars%20in%20India%201920s Photographs of Royal Tank Corps armoured cars in India 1920s], from ‘through their eyes' photostream flickr.com | ||
Revision as of 04:03, 12 February 2013
including Armoured Car Companies
Page under construction
Service in India
The information available online is scattered and fragmentary.
This link is from the medal dealer DNW and lists various medals for sale in 2004 awarded to members of the Tank Regiment. Generally details of the Company are not given. Note these are the medals from one collection, so the list is not exhaustive
- India General Service 1908-35 with clasps
- Malabar 1921-22 this was awarded for the Moplah Uprising and the 8th Armoured Car Company was involved
- Waziristan 1921-24
- North West Frontier 1930-31
- Mohmand 1933
- North West Frontier 1935
- India General Service 1936-39 with clasps
- North West Frontier 1936-37
- North West Frontier 1937-39
Regimental journal
The Tank Corps Journal, first publishe 1919-1920. The title changed in 1923 to The Royal Tanks Corps Journal. The National Army Museum catalogue lists volumes from No 1 1919–1920 to No 15 1933-1934 (missing No 11-12) .
This link says several articles on the campaigns in Waziristan 1921-24 were published in the Tank Corps Journal in the early 1920s[1]
External links
- Machine Gun Corps Wikipedia
- Royal Tank Regiment Wikipedia
- The Tank Museum at Bovington Dorset
- The Royal Tank Regiment Association
- Jeffery armored car Wikipedia
- Jeffery-Russell Armoured Cars of the 7th Armoured Motor Battery (AMB). Waziristan, ca. 1920 armoredcars-ww-one.blogspot.com Posted by Jose Luis Castillo
- Crossley Military Vehicles after WW1 crossley-motors.org.uk
Photographs
- Photograph: Jeffery Quad armoured cars on reconnaissance in Waziristan, 1920 National Army Museum
- Photographs North-West Frontier Province, 1930s The photographer was probably a member of the 8th Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps. From “Andrew M Brownhill"
- Photographs of Royal Tank Corps armoured cars in India 1920s, from ‘through their eyes' photostream flickr.com
- Photograph of Crew 1, tagged India 1930s flickr.com, Photograph of Crew 2, tagged India 1930s flickr.com
- Photograph of 7th Armoured Car Company in Peshawar, late 1920s/early 1930s from The History of the 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiments:1918-1939
- Photograph of Tank Light Mk IIA flickr.com A comment under the photograph advises this type of tank was in service in the 1930s on the North West Frontier of India .
- Photograph of Light Tank Mark IVA Indian Pattern The description says "This tank was only used in India so was probably at Ahmednagar, in the mid 1930s"
References
- ↑ Great War Forum thread Tank Corps in India/Waziristan 1921