The No.1 Armoured Car Company RAF was a military unit of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) based in Iraq and which played a role in the defence of RAF Habbaniya...
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The RAF Armoured Car Companies were part of Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) based in Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan. They were formed to operate with...
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smoke-grenade launchers. Twenty Rolls-Royce armoured cars in service with No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF in Egypt and Iraq received new chassis from a...
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counterpart of No.1 Armoured Car Company RAF, which performed a similar role in Iraq. On 7 April 1922, "Number 2 Armoured Car Company RAF" was formed at...
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The Ferret armoured car, also commonly called the Ferret scout car, is a British armoured fighting vehicle designed and built for reconnaissance purposes...
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afterwards by No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF and No. 3 Armoured Car Company RAF. These were equipped with Rolls-Royce armoured cars and carried out policing...
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No.1 Armoured Car Company was merged with No. 2701 Squadron RAF Regiment, and then on 25 February 1947 was renamed No. 1 (Armoured Car) Squadron RAF Regiment...
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also issued to RAF armoured car companies, which seem never to have used them in action, making greater use of Rolls-Royce armoured cars and other types...
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No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment (King's Colour Squadron) = Active squadron according to: No. 1 Armoured Car Company RAF No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF...
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Own Royal Regiment flown in at the last moment, Number 1 Armoured Car Company RAF and the RAF's Iraq Levies. The subsequent arrival of a relief column...
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Armoured Car Companies should be formed, manned by Royal Air Force officers and airmen and under Royal Air Force control. No. 3 Armoured Car Company was...
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Anglo-Iraqi War (section Situation at RAF Habbaniya)
World War, RAF Habbaniya became a training base, protected by No. 1 Armoured Car Company RAF and locally raised mainly Assyrian troops, the RAF Iraq Levies...
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Number 2 Armoured Car Company RAF at Heliopolis, Egypt on 7 April 1922 and placed under the command of Squadron Leader M. Copenan. The Company was equipped...
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with No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF at Amman in the Transjordan. In September of that year, the Army requested assistance for its hard-pressed armoured reconnaissance...
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A military armored (also spelled armoured) car is a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed...
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Standard Beaverette (category World War II armoured cars)
Standard Car 4x2, or Car Armoured Light Standard, better known as the Beaverette, was a British improvised armoured car produced during the Second World...
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Royal Naval Air Service (redirect from Royal Naval Armoured Car Division)
The RAF later inherited some ex-RNAS armoured cars left in the Middle East, and during the Second World War, the Number 1 Armoured Car Company RAF played...
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squadron hangars, RAF Armoured Car Company lines, RAF Iraq Levies lines and a civil cantonment. 299 British personnel still lie buried in the RAF Cemetery at...
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approaching the airfield by the crew of a Beaverette Mk III armoured car of 2769 Field Squadron RAF Regiment, which was on routine patrol around the airfield...
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Morris Light Reconnaissance Car (LRC) was a British light armoured car for reconnaissance use produced by Morris Motors Limited and used by the British...
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Hugh Constantine (section RAF career)
Number 3 Section of No.1 Armoured Car Company RAF. Constantine served in the Second World War, initially as officer commanding No. 214 Squadron and then...
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King's Own Royal Regiment flown in at the last moment, No. 1 Armoured Car Company RAF, and the RAF's Iraq Levies. The subsequent arrival of a relief column...
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Assyrian and Iraqi Levies - Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Brawn Number 1 Armoured Car Company RAF Habforce commanded by Major-General John Clark Mechanized squadron...
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self-propelled guns from July 1939 to May 1945, as well as 26,191 armoured cars and 69,071 armoured personnel carriers (mostly the Universal Carrier). British...
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Corps of Signals 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) D Squadron, No. 2 Armoured Car Company RAF (attached to 11th Hussars) 3rd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery...
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Lübeck Airport (redirect from RAF Lubeck)
No. 1302 Mobile Wing RAF Regiment No. 1304 Mobile Wing RAF Regiment No. 1 Armoured Car Squadron RAF Regiment No. 20 L.A.A. Squadron RAF Regiment No....
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April 1927 he was posted to the RAF Depot at RAF Uxbridge. He later returned to Iraq to serve in No. 1 Armoured Car Company from 7 October 1930, and then...
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Squadron leader (section RAF usage)
leader's sleeve/shoulder insignia An RAF squadron leader's sleeve mess insignia An RAF squadron leader's sleeve on No.1 service dress uniform In the British...
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rafht.co.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2019. Pine 1983, p. 6. "No.1 Armoured Car Company | RAF Heraldry Trust". www.rafht.co.uk. Retrieved 28 February 2018...
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Royal Air Force Hooton Park or more simply RAF Hooton Park, on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire, is a former Royal Air Force station originally built for...
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