1st Royal Tank Regiment

1st Royal Tank Regiment
Cap badge of the Royal Tank Regiment
Active	28 July 1917-
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Armoured
Role	Div Troops/Land Warfare training
Size	One regiment
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	Warminster, Wilts. RAF Honington
Motto	Fear Naught
March	Quick: My Boy Willie Slow: The Royal Tank Regiment Slow March
Anniversaries	Cambrai, 20 November
Battle honours	see Battle Honours
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	HM The Queen
Colonel-Commandant	Major General C M Deverell MBE
Notable commanders	Hugh Elles
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan	Hunting Rose (Pipers kilts and plaids)

The 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 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 was originally formed as 1st (Light) Battalion, Royal Tank Corps in 1934.

In 1993, it amalgamated with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title. It incorporated both the original regiment's traditional recruiting areas of Merseyside and Scotland. The new regiment also adopted the strong Scottish connections of the 4th RTR, taking on the former regiment's pipes and drums, which wear the Hunting Rose tartan. The Regiment Colours symbolise the phrase "From the Mud(brown), Through the blood(red) to the green fields beyond." In 1999, two squadrons were split off as part of the Joint Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear Regiment amalgamating with No. 27 Squadron, RAF Regiment, and two squadrons of the Royal Yeomanry. The Regimental March is Lippe Detmold.

In December 2011 the Regiment handed over its responsibility for CBRN to the RAF Regiment. 1 RTR is now back with the land Army, part of 3 Div, currently training for a deployment to Afghanistan. The Regiment consists of 5 squadrons: A,D,G,H and HQ. The location of the Regiment remains uncertain, a move from RAF Honington will happen in the future, but to where is unknown at present due to the impending outcome of Gen Carters' review and structuring for FF2020.

Associated Cadet Forces

Mildenhall Detachment of the Suffolk Army Cadet Force. Mildenhall ACF Website Cadbury Heath Detachment of the Bristol Army Cadet Force.

External links

• Official site
• Merseyside RTR (Brian Gills website)
• British Army Locations from 1945 British Army Locations from 1945