142nd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps
7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment

Notes

Regimental Nickname:
On 1st August 1759, the Suffolks were one six regiments who won the most spectacular victory of the Seven Years War by attacking and defeating a superior force of French cavalry. As the regiments advanced to the attack across Minden Heath, the men picked wild roses and stuck them in their caps. To commemorate this victory, the regiments (with the exception of the Royal Welch Fusiliers) wear roses in their caps on MInden Day.

Unfortunately, records of the Battalion only list three tank names all of 'B' Squadron: Courtrai, OC's Tank   Minden, 6 Troop   Suffolk.

The last two photographs were taken, when the Battalion's 'B' Squadron was attached to the North Irish Horse, during the liberation of Forli November 1944.

Mark IIIs in Tunisia. (IWM photograph)

Mark IIIs, under command of the NIH in Tunisia, wearing muted camouflage.
(Photo from NIH archives}

Churchill tanks of 142nd RAC approaching Piazza della Libertà.


Entering Piazza della Libertà.

Forli photographs courtesy of Paolo Savini, Roncofreddo, Italy.

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