Tank Corps, British Army
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| Tank Corps, British Army | |
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| Years active: | September 1916 – |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Service: | British Army |
| Branch: | Regular Army |
| Type: | Armoured |
| Specific type: | Corps (administrative) |
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| Created: | September 1916. |
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| Name1: | Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Section) |
| Name1 Start: | September 1916 |
| Name1 End: | November 1916 |
| Reason for change: | |
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| Name2: | Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch) |
| Name2 Start: | November 1916 |
| Name2 End: | 28 July 1917 |
| Reason for change: | Split from Machine Gun Corps and made a corps in its own right. |
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| Name3: | Tank Corps |
| Name3 Start: | 28 July 1917 |
| Name3 End: | 18 October 1923 |
| Reason for change: | Granted royal title. |
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| Name4: | Royal Tank Corps |
| Name4 Start: | 18 October 1923 |
| Name4 End: | |
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| Alternate names: | TC, RTC |
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| Disbanded: | |
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| 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
