18th November 1916 |
3rd Battalion, Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps |
| 29th December 1916 |
C Battalion, Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps |
28th July 1917 |
C Battalion, Tank Corps |
6th January 1918 |
3rd Battalion, Tank Corps |
1st November 1919 |
Reduced to Cadre at Bovington with personnel of 3rd, 6th and 9th Battalions |
May 1920 |
Re-formed at Dublin with the 17th Battalion |
1920 |
Dublin, Ireland |
December 1922 |
Reduced to Cadre at Lydd (Experimental Mechanised Force, 1927) |
April 1934 |
3rd Battalion, Royal Tank Corps
Re-formed at Wareham from disbanding 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps |
1934 |
Tidworth |
July 1938 |
Perham Down as part of 1 Tank Bde |
| April 1939 |
Renamed 3rd Royal Tank Regiment |
| September 1939 |
Warminster as part of 1 Heavy Armd Bde |
22nd May 1940 |
France – Calais as part of 30 Inf Bde |
June 1940 – March 1941 |
In the Uk as part of 1/3 Armd Bde |
Mar 1941 |
Greece as part of 1 Armd Bde |
May 1941 |
Egypt as part of 1 Armd Bde |
August 1941 |
Part of 4 Armd Bde |
July 1942 |
Amalgamated with 5th Royal Tank Regiment as part of 2 Armd Bde |
August 1942 |
Part of 8 Armd Bde |
February 1944 |
Part of 29 Armd Bde |
1945 |
Germany as part of British Army of the Rhine |
January 1948 |
England: Gosport |
March 1948 |
England: Warminster (A Sqn) at School of Infantry |
September 1948 |
England: Bovington as part of the Strategic Reserve |
July 1949 |
Hong Kong and Korea |
Oct 1952 |
Germany: Detmold as part of 33 Armd Bde |
April 1956 |
Germany: Detmold as part of 12 Inf Bde |
April 1958 |
Germany: Detmold as part of 5 Inf Bde |
March 1957 |
Germany: Detmold as part of 20 Armd Bde |
31st October 1959 |
Amalgamated with 6th Royal Tank Regiment |
August 1962 |
England: Catterick |
February 1964 |
Germany:Fallingbostel as part of 7 Armd Bde |
January 1968 |
England: Tidworth |
December 1969 |
Wolfenbüttel as part of 1 Corps Recce |
January 1973 |
Northern Ireland |
May 1973 |
Wolfenbüttel as part of 1 Corps Recce |
July 1974 |
Northern Ireland |
November 1974 |
Germany: Fallingbostel as part of 7 Armd Bde |
May 1976 |
England: Tidworth as part of 3 Armd Div |
January 1978 |
England: Tidworth as part of 8 Field Force |
May 1979 |
Germany: Paderborn as part of 3 Armd Div |
January 1981 |
Germany: Paderborn as part of 11 Armd Bde |
January 1986 |
England: Bovington as RAC Centre Regiment |
Febuary 1988 |
Germany Hemer as part of 12 Armd Bde |
September 1992 |
Amalgamated at Fallingbostel with 2nd Royal Tank Regiment |