1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry Tank Names
33rd Armoured Brigade
A Squadron
1 Troop   2 Troop   3 Troop   4 Troop   HQ Troop  
Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name
1 (1; Troop Commander) ? 5 (2; Troop Commander) Brest Litovsk 9 (3; Troop Commander)   13 (4; Troop Commander)   17 (Squadron Commander) Tomsk
2 (1A Troop Sergeant) Odessa 6 (2A Troop Sergeant) Bryansk 10 (3A Troop Sergeant) Vladivostok 14 (4A Troop Sergeant) Kerch 18 (Captain) Omsk
3 (1B; Troop Corporal) Orel 7 (2B; Troop Corporal) Belgorad 11 (3B; Troop Corporal)   15 (4B; Troop Corporal)   19 (Rear Link) Minsk
4 (1C; 17 pounder) Orenburg 8 (2C; 17 pounder) Balaclava 12 (3C; 17 pounder) Velikye Luki 16 (4C; 17 pounder) Kursk    
Other names         Vostok, Vitebsk,   Kharkov; Kiev    
B Squadron
1 Troop   2 Troop   3 Troop   4 Troop   HQ Troop  
Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name
25 (1; Troop Commander) Alabama 29 (2; Troop Commander)   33 (3; Troop Commander) Idaho 37 (4; Troop Commander) Washington 22 (Squadron Commander)  
26 (1A Troop Sergeant) Georgia 30 (2A Troop Sergeant) Louisiana 34 (3A Troop Sergeant) Nevada 38 (4A Troop Sergeant) California 23 (Captain)  
27 (1B; Troop Corporal) Indiana 31 (2B; Troop Corporal)   35 (3B; Troop Corporal) Montana 39 (4B; Troop Corporal) Maine 24 (Rear Link) Virginia
28 (1C; 17 pounder) New Hampshire 32 (2C; 17 pounder) New Orleans 36 (3C; 17 pounder) New Mexico 40 (4C; 17 pounder) New Jersey    
Other names     Oklahoma            
C Squadron
1 Troop   2 Troop   3 Troop   4 Troop   HQ Troop  
Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name Tank # Name
43 (1; Troop Commander) Cottesbrook 47 (2; Troop Commander) Sulgrave 51 (3; Troop Commander) Helmdon 55 (4; Troop Commander) Lilingstone 17 (Squadron Commander) Buckingham
44 (1A Troop Sergeant) Culworth 48 (2A Troop Sergeant)   52 (3A Troop Sergeant)   56 (4A Troop Sergeant) Lamport 18 (Captain) Brackley
45 (1B; Troop Corporal) Catesby 49 (2B; Troop Corporal)   53 (3B; Troop Corporal) Hellidon 57 (4B; Troop Corporal) Litchborough 19 (Rear Link) Brixworth
46 (1C; 17 pounder) Chipping Warden 50 (2C; 17 pounder) Stony Stratford 54 (3C; 17 pounder) Hanging Houghton 58 (4C; 17 pounder) Long Buckley     
Other names     Stoke Bruerne,Spratton, Staverton            
Military Illustrated, Past and Present; No. 69 February 1994; 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry, St Aignan; by John "Bud" Abbot
A Fine Night for Tanks, The Road to Falaise; by Ken Tout; 1998 Sutton Publishing Ltd.