The Cromwell and Comet Tank

In the 1944/5 NW Europe Campaign

By John Moher

Cromwells equipped a total of 8 Armoured Regiments in North-West Europe (21st Army Group). They were:

22nd Armoured Brigade (7th Armd Div)

    1st RTR
    5th RTR
    4th CLY (disbanded late July 1944)
    5th RIDG (joined July/Aug 1944)

8th Hussars (7th Armd Recce Regt)
2nd Northants Yeo (11th AD Recce until disbanded Aug 1944)
15th/19th Hussars (11th AD Recce from Aug 1944)
2nd Btn, Welsh Guards (Guards AD Recce Regt)

Subsequently 11th Armoured Division re-equipped with Comets, partially started in Dec 1944, postponed because of Ardennes, then completed in March 1945:

29 Armd Bde (11th AD):

    3rd RTR
    23rd Hussars
    2nd F&F Yeomanry

15th/19th Hussars (11th AD Recce Regt)


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