2nd Royal Tank Regiment
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| 2nd Royal Tank Regiment | |
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 2 RTR Badger during live fire training exercises in 2004 on Bergen-Hohne Training Area (Germany) near the Fallingbostel station |
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| Active | 28 July 1917- |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Branch | Army |
| Type | Armoured |
| Role | Armoured regiment |
| Part of | Royal Armoured Corps |
| Garrison/HQ | Tidworth, Wilts |
| Motto | Fear Naught |
| Colors | Brown, red and green (Through mud and blood to the green fields beyond) |
| March | Quick: My Boy Willie Slow: The Royal Tank Regiment Slow March |
| Anniversaries | Battle of Cambrai (20 November) |
| Battle honours | Battle Honours |
| Commanders | |
| Colonel-in-Chief | HM The Queen |
| Colonel-Commandant | Lt-General Andrew Peter Ridgway, CB, CBE |
| Notable commanders |
Hugh Elles |
| Insignia | |
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The 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2 RTR) is an armoured regiment of the British Army. It is part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps. It originally saw action as B Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917.
In 1992, it amalgamated with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment without change of title.
The Regiment has seen action most recently in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. After a long period in Fallingbostel, Germany, the regiment moved back to the UK and Aliwal Barracks in Tidworth in July 2007. All four of the Regiment's Sabre Squadrons were deployed in 2006/7 with EGYPT providing the Challenger 2 armoured punch on Op TELIC 9 who were then replaced on TELIC 10 by CYCLOPS with BADGER operating in Warrior tracked armoured vehicles. FALCON have recently returned from Op HERRICK in Afghanistan where they conducted numerous operations on the new Mastiff armoured vehicle. As of June 2009 EGYPT are back in Afghanistan operating on the Viking armoured vehicle.
The Regiment had a busy training year with AFV Ranges followed by BATUS towards the end of the year. On 25 June 2008 at Buckingham Palace both Regiments were presented with their new Standard by The Queen which included the new Battle Honour of Al Basra 2003.
External links
- Official site
- 3RTR - Armoured Farmers
- RTR Website
- British Army Locations from 1945 British Army Locations from 1945.
- Merseyside RTR (Brian Gills website)
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