48th Royal Tank Regiment

48th Royal Tank Regiment

The 48th Royal Tank Regiment (48 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army during the Second World War. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps.

It was originally formed as a duplicate of the 42nd Royal Tank Regiment, a newly mobilised Territorial Army unit.

Further reading

*"With Churchills to war : 48th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment at war, 1939-45", by Peter Gudgin. Sutton, 1996. ISBN 0750912391


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