24th Lancers
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The 24th Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army that existed from late 1940 to mid-1944. Assigned to the 8th Armoured Brigade, the regiment fought during the Invasion of Normandy before be
24th Lancers' cap badge ca 1941
Sherman VC Firefly of 24th Lancers near Saint-Léger, 11 June 1944.
23rd Hussars
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The 23rd Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army raised during World War II and in existence from 1940 to 1946. It had no lineal connection with the earlier 23rd Regiment of Dragoons.
24th Lancers
…and Forward Delivery Squadrons, frontline armoured regiments such as the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry or other units of the 8th Armoured Brigade, or the 23rd Hussars in the 29th Armoured Brigade in the 11th Armoured Division. Since D-Day, the regiment had lost 41 officers and men killed in action, along with 98…
Cap Badge of the 23rd Hussars ca 1941
Men of the 23rd Hussars, 11th Armoured Division, painting divisional and arm of service markings on a German Schwimmwagen captured from the 12th SS Panzer Division (HitlerJugend), in Normandy, 6 July 1944.
A Comet tank of the 23rd Hussars near Petershagen, Germany, 7 April 1945.