149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps

149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
Active1941–1946
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeArmoured
SizeRegiment
Part ofRoyal Armoured Corps
EquipmentGrant tank
EngagementsWorld War II

149th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (149 RAC) was an armoured regiment of the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps that served in the Burma Campaign during World War II.

Origin

149th Regiment RAC was formed on 22 November 1941 by the conversion to the armoured role of 7th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI).[1] Raised in 1940, 7th KOYLI had been serving with 207th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home), a Home Defence formation in Essex that was broken up in August 1941 and its battalions transferred to the RAC.[2] In common with other infantry units transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, all personnel would have continued to wear their KOYLI cap badge on the black beret of the RAC.[3]

Burma Campaign

7th KOYLI arrived in India on 24 October 1941, and was assigned for conversion to the Heavy Armoured Brigade, which was soon afterwards redesignated 50th Indian Tank Brigade.[1]

149 RAC moved to the Manipur Road area in April 1944, and came under the command of 254th Indian Tank Brigade in July, when it was equipped with Grant Mk II tanks.[1][4] The Brigade fought with the 5th Indian Division and the 7th Indian Infantry Divisions in Burma and was involved in the Battles at Imphal, Kohima, Kyaumaung Bridgehead, Meiktila, and Rangoon Road.[5]

In August 1944 149 RAC returned to Bombay in India, and then in April 1945 moved to Ahmednagar where it came once again under command of 50th Indian Tank Brigade and remained in India for the remainder of the war.[6]

149 RAC was disbanded in 1946.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Joslen, p. 497.
  2. ^ Joslen, p. 370.
  3. ^ Forty pp. 50–1.
  4. ^ "Commonwealth Tank, Armoured, Cavalry & Recce Regiments In The Burma Theatre Of Operations Jan 1944 To Aug 1945" (PDF). fireandfury.com.
  5. ^ Zaloga & Johnson.
  6. ^ Joslen, p. 496.
  7. ^ "Royal Armoured Corps". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 26 December 2005. Retrieved 13 January 2022.

References

  • Forty, George. (1998). British Army Handbook 1939-1945. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1403-3.
  • Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1.
  • Steven J. Zalgoa, Hugh Johnson, M3 Lee/Grant Medium Tank 1941-45.

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