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163rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps

Armoured Corps

Field	Value
unit_name	163rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
image	Royal20Armd20Corps.gif
image_size	150
caption	Cap badge of the Royal Armoured Corps.
dates	1942–1944
country	United Kingdom
branch
type	Armoured
size	Regiment
command_structure	Royal Armoured Corps
battles	World War II
disbanded	1 December 1944

The 163rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (163 RAC) was a short-lived armoured regiment of the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps that served in India during World War II.

Origin

163 RAC was formed by the conversion to the armoured role of the 13th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, a hostilities-only battalion raised in 1940, on 30 July 1942, the day after it arrived in India. In common with other infantry battalions transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, the personnel of 163 RAC would have continued to wear their Foresters cap badge on the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps.

Service

163 RAC was stationed at Rawalpindi under command of 267th Indian Armoured Brigade. However, there was a change of policy, and on 1 December 1944 (also reported as 1 December 1943) the regiment was re-converted to infantry, reverting to its previous title of 13th Foresters and coming under command of 67 Indian Training Brigade.

Notes

References

George Forty, "British Army Handbook 1939-1945", Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1998, .

References

Joslen p. 497.
Forty pp. 50–51.
Joslen pp. 497, 543.

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