Tank Corps, British Army
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| Tank Corps, British Army | |
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| Years active: | March 1916 – |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Service: | British Army |
| Branch: | Regular Army (British Army) |
| Type: | Armoured |
| Specific type: | Corps (administrative) |
| Full size: | none |
| Sources for overview: | |
| Created: | March 1916. Formed as a branch of the Machine Gun Corps. |
| Sources for created: | [1] |
| Name1: | Machine Gun Corps (Heavy) |
| Name1 Start: | 14 July 1916 |
| Name1 End: | 27 July 1917 |
| Reason for change: | Split from Machine Gun Corps and made a corps in its own right by Royal Warrant. |
| Sources for name1: | [2] |
| Name2: | Tank Corps |
| Name2 Start: | 27 July 1917 |
| Name2 End: | 18 October 1923 |
| Reason for change: | Granted royal title. |
| Sources for name2: | [3] |
| Name3: | Royal Tank Corps |
| Name3 Start: | 18 October 1923 |
| Name3 End: | |
| Reason for change: | |
| Sources for name3: | |
| Alternate names: | TC, RTC |
| Sources for alternate names: | |
| Disbanded: | |
| Sources for disbanded: | |
| For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war. | |
Contents
Record Office
This administrative corps had its own record office which is represented here, not on a separate page.
| Location: | London |
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| Letter code: | TANKS |
Personal narratives
Related media
Official Sources
Unit war diaries
None. Administrative organisations did not keep war diaries because they had no operational role.
See descendant unit pages for their war diaries.
Unit histories
Other official documents
Other sources
- Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail: Tank Corps in the First World War
- Wikipedia:Royal Tank Regiment
References
- ↑ Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail: Tank Corps in the First World War; Army Order number 253 (1916)
- ↑ The Army Orders seem to use 'Heavy Branch' and 'Heavy Section' interchangeably. Army Order number 239 (1917) used 'Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch)' but Army Order number 240 (1917) used 'Machine Gun Corps Heavy Section'. Army Order number 253 (1916) already referred to it as 'Machine-Gun Corps (Heavy)' alongside the Infantry, Cavalry and Motors, which had already been described as branches in Army Order number 414 (1915).
- ↑ Army Order number 239 (1917)
