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5th Royal Tank Regiment was part of the British Expeditionary Force in France May 1940. In 1941 they sailed to the Middle East and fought at Tobruk and the Battleaxe and Gazala battles. With reorganization the 5th RTR joined the 22nd Armoured Brigade at El Alamein. In October 1942 the 22nd AB joined the 7th Armoured Division until the end of WWII. In 1940 the 7th AD adopted the Jerboa a desert rat as the Divisional Sign and became “The Desert Rats”. The 22nd AB used the stag head as its badge.