51st Battalion Royal Tank Regiment

Tank Names
    RHQ: Famous Battles.
    A Squadron: Commencing with the letter A.
    B Squadron: British Warships.
    C Squadron: Commencing with the letter C.

WD Numbers
Standard Location
      Forward of the louvres.
Non-standard
    Tanks delivered to North Africa with appliqué armour plate attached in the UK: On turrets
    Tanks which had track links affixed in the field: On upper louvre plates.

Individual Tanks
Information in the following tables relates to tanks with confirmed names and WD numbers. At the foot of each table is a link to a listing of all known unit names. Modellers wishing to use a name on the list lacking a WD number should create a fictitious one by creating a number similar to (but not the same as) that allocated to a particular group of marks by the War Department as shown in the table, is recommended.

Notes:
P/H indicates a photograph and/or brief history of the tank is available. Click on "Yes" to access.
51st RTR did not record sequential tank numbers as suffixes prior to arrival in North Africa. When known, they are indicated in the Remarks column.

Regimental Headquarters

Name	T No.	Type	Troop	P/H	Remarks
Malplaquet	68639	Mark IV	HQ		Hit by anti-tank gun, Italy, 17 November 1944.
Ramilles	172245	Mark IV	HQ
Wellington	68933	Mark IV	HQ		Click for a photograph of two HQ Troop's tanks.

A Squadron

Name	T No.	Type	Troop	P/H	Remarks
Achilles I	67949	Mark I			Name carried the suffix I
Achilles II	31796	Mark IV			Name carried the suffix II
Achilles (III)	31820	Mark IV		Yes	No suffix carried after name
Active	69045	Mark III
Adamant	68796	Mark III			Hit by 75mm A/Tk round at 200 yards,  penetrating hull. Tunisia, 28 February 1943.
Adder	31063	Mark IV			Portrayed in Pathe News film "Preparing for  the Day," 21 September 1942.
Adventurer	32428	Mark IV	1
Agile (I)	68935	Mark III			No suffix carried after name. Hit twice by A/T  fire without being penetrated. Tunisia, 28th  February 1943.
Agile (II)	31544	Mark IV			No suffix carried after name
Amazon	31148	Mark IV			Dive bombed then hit by 75mm. Recovered  and repaired, Tunisia, 28th February 1943.
Apollo (I)	31793	Mark III			No suffix carried after name. Turret hit and  penetrated by 75mm A/Tk round, Tunisia, 28  February 1943.
Apollo (II)		Mark IV		Yes	No suffix carried after name.
Ardent	68814	Mark IV			Hit several times by A/Tk fire, but no  penetrations.
Asp (I)	68384	Mark III			No suffix carried after name. Dive bombed,  Tunisia, 28 February 1943, total write-off.
Asp (II)	172439	Mark IV			No suffix carried after name.
Avenger	32347	Mark I			Converted to Mark Ics in Algeria.

B Squadron

Name	T No.	Type	Troop	P/H	Remarks
Barham	31706	Mark IV
Ghurka	67954	Mark IV		Yes	Named after destroyer sunk 1917.
Haig	31098	Mark I
Iron Duke	31131	Mark I
Malaya	172550	Mark IV
Warspite	31170	Mark I

C Squadron

Name	T No.	Type	Troop	P/H	Remarks
Cambrai	32364	Mark I
Cawnpaw	172595	Mark IV
Centaur	67955	Mark IV
Centurion	31022	Mark I
Cyclops (I)	67869	Mark III	15	Yes	No suffix carried after name.
Cyclops (II)	172243 B	Mark IV			No suffix carried after name.

Armoured Recovery Vehicles

Name	T No.	Type	Troop	P/H	Remarks
Charity	31175	ARV
Faith	31001	ARV
Hope	68850	ARV
Orphan	31244	ARV

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