British Sherman tank Italy Dec 1943 IWM NA 9992

The 50th Royal Tank Regiment (50 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the

British Army The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurk ...

Royal Tank Regiment The Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is the oldest tank unit in the world, being formed by the British Army in 1916 during the First World War. Today, it is the armoured regiment of the British Army's 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade. Formerly known as th ...

during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. It was part of the

, itself part of the

Royal Armoured Corps The Royal Armoured Corps is the component of the British Army, that together with the Household Cavalry provides its armour capability, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle. It includes most of the A ...

. It was formed in June 1939 as a duplicate of the 44th Royal Tank Regiment, a Territorial Army unit itself newly converted from

6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment The 6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regimen, was a Territorial Force unit of the British Army. Originally recruited in Gloucestershire as a Volunteer battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment ('The Glosters') during the Second Boer War, it fought ...

. The Commanding Officer was H M Brown; the second in command F C Gibaud; the adjutant A F G Mathers, the RSM T G Beardmore MM and the company commanders were R Hazzledene (A); E C K Weston (B) and O F Curtoys (C).

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Merseyside RTR
Brian Gill's website) Royal Tank Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment {{UK-mil-unit-stub

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