1st Royal Tank Regiment

1st Royal Tank Regiment
Cap badge of the Royal Tank Regiment.
Active	28 July 1917–August 2014
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Armoured
Role	Div Troops/Land Warfare training
Size	One regiment
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	Warminster, Wiltshire. RAF Honington
Motto(s)	Fear Naught
March	Lippe Detmold 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
Notable commanders	Hugh Elles Michael Carver, Baron Carver
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan	Hunting Rose (Pipers kilts and plaids)

The 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army. It is part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps and operationally under 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade.

The regiment was originally formed as A Company, Heavy Section, Heavy Machine Gun Corps in May 1916 during the First World War (1914–1918). It took part in the first ever tank offensive in 1916 and saw action on the Western Front again in the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917 and later in the Hundred Days Offensive. Remaining active in the army during the interwar period, in 1939 it was renamed the 1st Royal Tank Regiment.

During the Second World War (1939–1945) the regiment took part in the Siege of Tobruk in the summer of 1941 and the Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, the advance up Italy in late 1943, the Normandy landings in June 1944 and the Western Allied invasion of Germany in 1945. From the Battle of El Alamein the regiment was part of the 22nd Armoured Brigade, itself part of the 7th Armoured Division, for the rest of the war.

After a period based in Germany, 1 RTR helped repelled Communist forces during the Korean War. In 1993, it amalgamated with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title. It incorporated both the original regiments' traditional recruiting areas of Merseyside and Scotland.