British Tetrarch tank commander Airborne?

[M Blakey]

ok here it is chaps ive got a Tetrarch on the work bench and some bolt action tank commanders and im just wondering what colour are there berets as they have landed with red devils!

any info would be great!

cheers in advance mike

[Poiter50]

They were still Armoured Corps or "Tankies", so they would still wear their treasured Black Beret. (I'm ex Aussie cav, we treasure our black berets) 

[V]

No, they were airborne;

Then I went to the 6th Airborne Armoured Recce Regt at Larkhill in Wilts - RAC badge in our maroon berets. We had the Tetrarch light tanks in the Hamilcar gliders. Also six motorcycles. Training with 6AARR [6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment] was very varied, including lots of schemes in the surrounding countryside, a visit to Crystal Palace to collect light-weight James two-stroke bikes (not for us). Being woken in the early hours, ride down to the Abbey grounds at Amesbury, where they had a Hamilcar glider, and practicing over and over again, loading tanks and motorcycles in the dark, into the gliders, shackling up, then unloading.

http://www.pegasusarchive.org/normandy/william_james_gladden.htm

[carlos marighela]

Twas a tradition carried on after the war. The RAC Parachute Squadron that was formed in the 1960s to provide AT support to the Parachute Brigade with Hornet/ Malkara and then Ferret/ Swingfire combinations also wore the maroon beret.

You'll find this site useful, it has a good selection of photos:

http://www.paradata.org.uk/units/6th-airborne-armoured-recce-regiment-rac

[Old Goat]

Mutton Chop Miniatures do a number of tanker upper bodies.  Aimed at the VCBW crowd but a few mods and you have your man.