Description
Title: Fifty Years of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, 1948 to 1998
Author: Handel, Paul
Condition: Near Mint
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 100 pages
Comments: The history of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps 1948 to 1998 – covers each RAAC Regiment’s history.
The Royal Australian Armoured Corps (RAAC) is a corps in the Australian Army. The corps was formed on 9 July 1941 as the Australian Armoured Corps to provide personnel to use Armoured Fighting Vehicles. It is the senior arms corps within the army and was granted the Royal prefix in 1948. Units of the RAAC include tank regiments, reconnaissance regiments and armoured personnel-carrier regiments.
Regular Army
1st Armoured Regiment – Armoured
2nd Cavalry Regiment – Reconnaissance
B Squadron, 3rd/4th Cavalry Regiment – Light Armoured
2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) – Reconnaissance
Army Reserve
1st/15th Royal New South Wales Lancers – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
3rd/9th Light Horse (South Australia Mounted Rifles) – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
4th/19th Prince of Wales’s Light Horse – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
A Squadron, 10th Light Horse Regiment – Light cavalry / Reconnaissance
12th/16th Hunter River Lancers – Light Armoured
Japan (British Commonwealth Occupation Force) : 1946–1949
South Vietnam : 1965–1971
Somalia : 1993
Rwanda : 1994
East Timor : 1999 – Present
Iraq : 2003 – Present
Afghanistan : 2006 – Present
Solomon Islands : 2007 – Present