Difference between revisions of "Tank Corps, British Army"

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Tank Corps, British Army
Years active:	September 1916 –
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
Branch:	Regular Army
Type:	Armoured
Specific type:	Corps (administrative)
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Created:	September 1916.
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Name1:	Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Section)
Name1 Start:	September 1916
Name1 End:	November 1916
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Name2:	Machine Gun Corps (Heavy Branch)
Name2 Start:	November 1916
Name2 End:	28 July 1917
Reason for change:	Split from Machine Gun Corps and made a corps in its own right.
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Name3:	Tank Corps
Name3 Start:	28 July 1917
Name3 End:	18 October 1923
Reason for change:	Granted royal title.
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Name4:	Royal Tank Corps
Name4 Start:	18 October 1923
Name4 End:
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Alternate names:	TC, RTC
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Disbanded:
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This administrative corps had its own record office which is represented here, not on a separate page.

Location:	London
Letter code:	TANKS

None. Administrative organisations did not keep war diaries because they had no operational role.

See descendant unit pages for their war diaries.

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+| ro_location = London
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