1st Royal Tank Regiment

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1st Royal Tank Regiment
Cap badge of the Royal Tank Regiment
Active	28 July 1917-
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	Army
Type	Armoured
Role	CBRN/Training
Size	One regiment
Part of	Royal Armoured Corps
Garrison/HQ	Warminster RAF Honington
Motto	Fear Naught
March	Quick: My Boy Willie Slow: The Royal Tank Regiment Slow March
Anniversaries	Cambrai, 20 November
Battle honours	see Battle Honours
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	HM The Queen
Colonel-Commandant	Lt-General Andrew Peter Ridgway, CB, CBE
Notable commanders	Hugh Elles
Insignia
Tactical Recognition Flash
Tartan	Hunting Rose (Pipers kilts and plaids)

The 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) is an armoured regiment of the British Army. It is part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps. It was originally formed as 1st (Light) Battalion, Royal Tank Corps in 1934.

In 1993, it amalgamated with the 4th Royal Tank Regiment without change of title. It incorporated both the original regiment's traditional recruiting areas of Merseyside and Scotland. The new regiment also adopted the strong Scottish connections of the 4th RTR, taking on the former regiment's pipes and drums, which wear the Hunting Rose tartan.

In 1999, two squadrons were split off as part of the Joint Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Regiment amalgamating with No. 27 Squadron, RAF Regiment, and two squadrons of the Royal Yeomanry. The Regimental March is Lippe Detmold.