Royal Tank Corps

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

External links

• Machine Gun Corps Wikipedia
• Royal Tank Regiment Wikipedia
• The Tank Museum at Bovington Dorset
  • Archive and Reference Library
• The Royal Tank Regiment Association
• Jeffery armored car Wikipedia
• From Jose Luis Castillo‘s blog "Armoured Cars in the WWI"
  • Jeffery-Russell Armoured Cars of the 7th Armoured Motor Battery (AMB). Waziristan, ca. 1920
  • Standard Armoured Car 'Indian Pattern', 10 AMB (10th Armoured Motor Battery) Ferozepore, Punjab, India 1915
  • Napier Armoured Car 'Indian Pattern', 10 AMB (10th Armoured Motor Battery) Ferozepore, Punjab, India 1915.
  • Straker-Squire Armoured Cars 'Indian Pattern', 11th AMB. 1915, Ambala, India.
  • Cadillac Armoured Car 'Indian Pattern', Calcutta, India, 1916 15th Armoured Motor Battery (15 AMB) formed by three Cadillac Armoured Cars (type closed roof) Calcutta 1915 Rebuilt in 1916 by the East Indian Railway Workshops at Lilooah, near Calcutta. Was called Noah’s Ark by the special form of the roof (closed and high), designed for street fighting.
  • Fiat Armoured Car ‘Indian Pattern’. North-West Frontier, c. 1918.
  • Jeffery-Russell Armoured Car. India, ca.1919
• 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"