[4] At that time the six tank companies were grouped as the Heavy Section of the Machine Gun Corps (MGC).

[6] In 1933, the 6th Battalion, RTC was formed in Egypt by combining the personnel of the 3rd and 5th Regular Army Armoured Car Companies.

Before the Second World War, Royal Tank Corps recruits were required to be at least 5 feet 4 inches tall.

They trained at the Royal Tank Corps Depot at Bovington Camp, Dorset for about eight months.

11 RTR formed part of 79th Armoured Division (a specialist group operating vehicles known as "Hobart's Funnies"), initially equipped with "Canal Defence Light" tanks, it converted to "Buffalo" (the British service name for the US Landing Vehicle Tracked) not long after D-Day and participated in the assault crossing of the Rhine.

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery would frequently wear the regiment's beret, with his Field Marshal's badge sewn on next to the regimental cap badge, as it was more practical whilst travelling on a tank than either a formal peaked hat or the Australian slouch hat he previously wore.

[17] The Royal Tank Regiment continued to see action including missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.

[18] The regiment is equipped with Challenger 2 tanks and based at Tidworth coming under 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade following the Army 2020 refine.

[22] The battle honours are:[23] Arras Counter Attack, Calais 1940, St. Omer-La Bassée, Somme Sidi Barrani, Beda Fomm, Sidi Suleiman, Tobruk 1941, Sidi Rezegh 1941, Belhamed, Gazala, Cauldron, Knightsbridge, Defence of Alamein Line, Alam el Halfa, El Alamein, Mareth, Akarit, Fondouk, El Kourzia, Medjez Plain, Tunis Primosole Bridge, Gerbini, Adrano Sangro, Salerno, Volturno Crossing, Garigliano Crossing, Anzio, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Coriano, Lamone Crossing, Rimini Line, Argenta Gap Odon, Caen, Bourguébus Ridge, Mont Pincon, Falaise, Nederrijn, Scheldt, Venlo Pocket, Rhineland, Rhine, Bremen Abyssinia 1940, Greece 1941, Burma 1942 Korea 1951–53 Al Basrah, Iraq 2003[24] Colonels-Commandant have been:[25] The Uniform of the Royal Tank Regiment is unique in many ways to the rest of the Royal Armoured Corps and British Army: Much of the uniform and equipment of soldiers during the First World War was quite impractical for use inside a tank.

[27] The wearing of black overalls is a custom reserved to the Regiment by Material Regulations for the Army, volume 3, Pamphlet No 4 (Code 13251).

[29] Authorised on 7 May 1917, it is still worn today by all ranks on No.1 and No.2 dress and on their sleeve brassard on black overalls.

To commemorate this, officers of the Regiment carry ash plant sticks instead of the short cane customary to other arms.