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The regiment was raised in December 1940 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards , and was assigned to 29th Armoured Brigade of 11th Armoured Division . It was later reassigned to 30th Armoured Brigade of the same division; this brigade was then transferred to the 42nd Armoured Division in 1942, and to 79th Armoured Division in 1943. All three regiments of the 30th Armoured Brigade were re-equipped with Flail Tanks , modified M4 Sherman tanks with a large roller covered in chains attached to the front, intended for clearing a path through minefields. Tanks thus equipped were often split up and used in "penny packets" in support of infantry rather than as organised formations. As such, the regiment came ashore in the first wave of the Operation Overlord landings on the morning of June 6 1944 , scattered piecemeal across the British and Canadian beaches. The regiment continued to see action sporacdically once the beaches were cleared, fighting through Belgium and the Netherlands into Germany, where they were at the end of the war; the regiment was disbanded in Germany in December 1945. REFERENCES |
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