40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment

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The 40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment (40 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army from 1938 until 1956. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps.

It was originally formed by converting the 7th battalion of The King's (Liverpool Regiment), a Territorial Army infantry battalion, to a tank unit.

The regiment served with the 23rd Armoured Brigade in North Africa, where it acquired the nickname "Monty's Foxhounds", and Italy during World War II.

At the end of the war it was located in Greece, where it was placed in suspended animation in mid 1946, and then reconstituted at Liverpool as an armoured regiment of the Territorial Army in 1947. In 1956, it amalgamated with the 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment to form the 40th/41st Royal Tank Regiment.