160th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
160th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps | |
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Active | 1942โ1943 |
Disbanded | 1 April 1943 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Armoured |
Size | Regiment |
Part of | Royal Armoured Corps |
160th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (160 RAC) was a short-lived armoured regiment of the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps serving in India during World War II.
Origin
160 RAC was formed on 15 July 1942 by the conversion to the armoured role of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, a hostilities-only battalion created two years before in July 1940 and which had been assigned to the 212th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), serving alongside the 6th South Wales Borderers, 10th Gloucestershire Regiment and the 18th Welch Regiment (which had left by May 1941), all of which had also been raised in July 1940.[1] In common with other infantry battalions transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, the personnel of 160 RAC, those not weeded out by psychiatrists, would have continued to wear their Royal Sussex cap badge on the black beret of the RAC.[2]
Service
160 RAC embarked for passage from the
Notes
References
- George Forty, "British Army Handbook 1939-1945", Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-7509-1403-3.
- Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939โ1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1.