Cap badge Royal Tank Regiment 1935 /1945

White metal construction, By 1939, with the prospect of war looming large over Europe, three more regular battalions had been re-formed, giving a total of eight. These were supplemented by a large number of territorial battalions. In April that year, the Royal Tank Corps was renamed the Royal Tank Regiment and placed under the umbrella of the newly formed Royal Armoured Corps, alongside the Army’s other mechanised cavalry units. The Royal Tank Regiment served on all fronts, and in most major engagements, of the Second World War (1939-45).