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The 108th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (The Lancashire Fusiliers) (108 RAC) was an armoured regiment of the British Army's Royal Armoured Corps during World War II. ==Origin and traditions== 108th Regiment RAC was formed at Barnard Castle on 1 November 1941 by the conversion to the armoured role of 1/5th (Bury) Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers, a 1st Line Territorial Army infantry battalion.〔Forty pp. 50–1.〕〔108th Regiment RAC War Diary, November 1941, The National Archives, Kew (TNA) file WO 166/1425.〕 1/5th Battalion had been serving in 125th Infantry Brigade of 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division, which were redesignated 10th Armoured Brigade and 42nd Armoured Division respectively. All three regiments in the brigade were drawn from the Lancashire Fusiliers and underwent simultaneous conversion (the other two became 109 RAC and 143 RAC).〔Joslen, pp. 29, 68, 164, 310.〕 The regiment was intensely proud of its Lancashire Fusiliers heritage, and always included the name in its RAC designation.〔108th Regiment RAC War Diaries 1941–43, TNA files WO 166/1425, 166/6928, WO166/11101.〕 Soon after its conversion, the 108th's officers were ordered to wear the black beret of the RAC with their battledress uniform;〔108th Regiment RAC War Diary, 26 November 1941, TNA file WO 166/1425.〕 but in common with other infantry units transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps, personnel would have continued to wear their Lancashire Fusiliers cap badge on the beret.〔 108 RAC also continued the Lancashire Fusiliers' commemoration of Gallipoli Day (25 April) and Minden Day (1 August). Minden Day was celebrated by Trooping the Colour, a drum-head service, and regimental sports, followed by the officers visiting the men at dinner.〔108th Regiment RAC War Diaries, April & August 1942, TNA file WO 166/6928; August 1943, file WO 166.11101.〕
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