It may only be 60 years old, but the 7th Armoured Brigade, better known as the Desert Rats, has one of the proudest histories in the British Army. Now part of the 1st Armoured Division and based ...

Major General Patrick Cordingley, former commander of the British Army's 7th Armoured Brigade - the "Desert Rats" - has just returned from a reconnaissance mission with a brigade due to deploy to ...

S. Central Command disclosed. No U. S. casualties were reported. In the first week of the war, 20 of the 22 British servicemen killed or missing in the U. S.-led combat have been victims of accidents.

The disbandment of the Tidworth-based 1st Armoured Infantry (AI) Brigade took place in early July but was not announced by the British Army or UK Ministry of Defence at the time.

It comprises a much reinforced armoured brigade - the 7th Armoured Brigade known as "the Desert Rats" and elements of the headquarters of One UK Division.

The 7th armoured brigade, the desert rats, with some soldiers still grumbling about equipment and provisions, are positioned at just 40 kilometres from Iraq.

THE HEADQUARTERS of the 7th Armoured Brigade - the 'Desert Rats' - is to leave the dingy garrison town of Bergen–Belsen, 50 miles south of Hamburg, and move back to the UK as part of the army's ...

Under the plans, 7th Armoured Brigade HQ, currently based in Hohne in Germany, will return to UK to become part of the new 7th Infantry Brigade, based at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire.

Alternatively, if the invasion is delayed until the summer or the autumn and Tony Blair gives the go-head for the deployment of 7th armoured brigade, British troops will find themselves in the ...