[5] The battalion had been under orders to accompany 1st Armoured to the Middle East, but these were cancelled and the men returned their tropical uniforms to store.
[2] In common with other infantry battalions transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, 112's personnel would have continued to wear their Foresters cap badge on the black beret of the Royal Armoured Corps,[1] and the regiment continued to add the parenthesis '(Foresters)' after the RAC title.
He was made an Honorary Colonel in the Royal Armoured Corps when his term of command ended.
[2] 112 RAC left 42nd Division in February 1943[8] and later became a draft-finding unit for other armoured car regiments fighting in the Normandy Campaign.
[9] Despite personal appeals from the commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel A. G. Miller, DSO, to General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey commanding the British Second Army in North-western Europe, and from Colonel Lancaster to the War Office, to allow the unit to go overseas, 112 RAC ceased to exist on 14 October 1944, when it reverted to the title of 9th Foresters, which was placed in suspended animation.