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
External links
- Royal Tank Regiment Wikipedia
- The Tank Museum at Bovington Dorset
- The Royal Tank Regiment Association
Photographs
- 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"
