Royal Tank Corps

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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

Photographs

References

  1. Great War Forum thread Tank Corps in India/Waziristan 1921