Armoured cars are often used in military marches and processions, or for the escorting of important figures.

Armoured cars and 5th Cavalry Division lancers were continuing the pursuit of Ottoman units north of Aleppo when the Armistice of Mudros was signed by the Ottoman Empire.

Armoured cars of the 12th Lancers stopped the Germans at Nieuport itself.

This included the lyrics " Armoured cars and tanks and guns, came to take away our sons.

During World War II, " Jock columns " were small combined arms groups of armoured cars, artillery, and motorised infantry, generally drawn from the 7th Armoured Division.

** The Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps ( armoured cars )

It was the RNAS which provided much of the mobile cover using armoured cars, during the withdrawal from Antwerp to the Yser, in 1914 ( see RNAS Armoured Car Section below ).

* Oliver Locker-Lampson – Conservative Member of Parliament, commanded 15 Squadron ( armoured cars ) and led the Russian Armoured Car Division

The RAF would later inherit some ex-RNAS armoured cars left in the Middle East, and during World War II, the Number 1 Armoured Car Company RAF played an important role in the defence of RAF Habbaniya when the base was attacked by Iraqi nationalists.

* Armoured Car Squadron-4 squadrons equipped with a mixture of Daimler Armoured Cars, Staghound armoured cars ( some armed with anti-aircraft weapons ) and Daimler " Dingo " Scout Cars and a supply and recovery squadron

The name Selous Scouts was also given to the short-lived Southern Rhodesian Armoured Car Regiment, a unit in the Army of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between about 1960 and 1962 that drove Staghound armoured cars and Ferret armoured cars.

The Italian tankettes and armored cars were organized as the " Tank and Armoured Cars Group " ( Agrupación de carros de asalto y autos blindados ).

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The Leichter Panzerspähwagen ( German: roughly " Light Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle ") were a series of light four-wheel drive armoured cars produced by Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.

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He was attached to the 14th Light Armoured Motor Battery of the Machine Gun Corps, but the British High Command decided they could not risk his life and so they made him an officer in charge of transport ( Ford Model T cars ).

At the end of October he joined the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division in the battlefields of France where he had three guns and armoured cars under his command.

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Armoured cars of the 4 / 8th Hussars ( of the 4th Armoured Brigade ) broke into the Axis supply echelons near Himeimat and attacked a group of 300 lorries, destroying 57 of them.

In the British Army, all cavalry regiments were mechanised between 1929 and 1941, redefining their role from horse to armoured vehicles to form the Royal Armoured Corps together with the Royal Tank Regiment.

Armoured cavalry such as the Byzantine cataphract were used as shock troops — they would charge the main body of the enemy and, in many cases, their actions decided the outcome of the battle, hence the later term " battle cavalry ".

In the Swiss Army, mounted dragoons existed until the early 1970s, when they were converted into Armoured Grenadiers units.

They were a part of the French 6th Light Armoured Division, whose mission was to protect the coalition's left flank.

The 15th Panzer were blocked by 4th Armoured and 7th Motor Brigades, but the 21st Panzer were ordered on to attack Minqar Qaim.

The remains of 1st and 7th Armoured Divisions were to be held as a mobile army reserve.

The raiding parties were to be provided by 1st Armoured Division.

While — with help from mobile infantry and artillery columns from 7th Armoured Division — they pushed back the Axis probe with ease, they were prevented from advancing north to protect the New Zealand flank.

Accordingly, strenuous preparations to dig in anti-tank guns were made, artillery fire plans organised and a regiment from 22nd Armoured Brigade was sent to reinforce 2nd Armoured Brigade.

2nd Armoured Brigade sent forward two regiments to help but they were halted by mines and anti-tank fire.

In what are by Kenyan standards unprecedented revelations, in 2010, credible claims of corruption were made with regard to recruitment and procurement of Armoured Personnel Carriers.

British Army troops, part of Middle East Command and comprising 25th Armoured Brigade and briefly 10th Armoured Division, were still present after independence and stayed in Libya until at least 1957.

In the British and Commonwealth armies, " Type A Armoured Brigades "— which were intended for independent operations or to form part of armored divisions — had a " motor infantry " battalion mounted in Bren Carriers or later in Lend-Lease halftracks.

The former Defense companies were merged into the Syrian Army as the 4th Armoured Division and the Republican Guard.

These and other dedicated assault vehicles were organised into the specialised 79th Armoured Division and deployed during Operation Overlord-' D-Day '.

On 1 September 1939, two divisions were raised as part of the Canadian Active Service Force ; a Third Division was raised in 1940, followed by a First Canadian ( Armoured ) Division and Fourth Canadian Division.

Investigation also ruled out the 144 Royal Armoured Corps ; although they did take part in defeating the counterattack, they were positioned around Cramesnil and therefore out of effective range of Wittmann ’ s tank.

Later that day, the same units were mistakenly fired upon by tanks and artillery of the 1st Polish Armoured Division, resulting in more casualties.

Meanwhile, small raiding columns were sent out from the 7th Armoured and newly formed Long Range Desert Group to probe, harass, and disrupt the Italians ( this marked the start of what became the Special Air Services ).

Under the command of Brigadier William " Loony " Hinde, the 22nd Armoured Brigade group reached Villers-Bocage without serious incident, but as its lead elements moved beyond the town on the morning of 13 June they were ambushed by Tiger I tanks of the 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion.