BRITISH ARMY ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS RAC COLLAR BADGE PAIR

NEAR MINT CONDITION SET OF BRITISH ARMY ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS COLLAR BADGES. QUEEN ELIZABETH II ERA. CLEAR/DEFINED FEATURES. ATTATCHMENT LOOPS TO REAR. BOTH BADGES ARE GENUINE ISSUED PIECES, IN THEIR ORIGINAL PAPER WRAPPING.

The Royal Armoured Corps (RAC) is currently a collection of ten regular regiments, mostly converted from old horse cavalry regiments, and four Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army. It provides the armour capability of the British Army, with vehicles such as the Challenger 2 Tank and the Scimitar Reconnaissance Vehicle.

The RAC was created on 4 April 1939, just before World War II started, by combining the cavalry wing (cavalry units that had mechanised), and the Royal Tank Corps (which was thereupon renamed the Royal Tank Regiment within the new corps). As the war went on, many other units became mechanised and joined this corps. In 1944, the RAC absorbed the Reconnaissance Corps. The Royal Armoured Corps is divided into those regiments that operate main battle tanks (armoured regiments) and those that operate reconnaissance tanks (formation reconnaissance regiments). Of these, three regiments are designated as Dragoon Guards, two as Hussars, two as Lancers and one as Dragoons. The remaining two are the two regiments of the Royal Tank Regiment. In the regular army there are five armoured regiments and five formation reconnaissance regiments.

100% ORIGINAL AS ISSUED, NOT A REPRODUCTION

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1939-45 Star
1939-45 Service Medal
1939-45 The Italy Star
1939-45 The Africa Star (with clasps - 8th Army, 1st Army & Africa 1942-43)
1939-45 The France & Germany Star
1939-45 The Atlantic Star (with F&G/D-Day Bar)
1939-45 The Pacific Star (with Burma Clasp)
1939-45 The Burma Star (also with Pacific Clasp)
1939-45 South African Service Medal
1939-45 The Defence Medal

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