Tributes to Britain’s oldest Second World War veteran, who lived in Derbyshire, have flooded in following his death at the ...

3 (UK) Division is the core of the British Army as a war-fighting force. It has all the Army’s tanks, all its armoured infantry vehicles and all of its heavy artillery. Despite that, successive ...

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 ...

My name is Noel Barwick and I was known as nobby, I was a tank wireless operator in the Middlesex Yeomanry 7th Armoured Division known as the Desert rats, I served in North Africa, Italy and Europe.

Dark Docs. The Super Fast Tank vs a Deadly 88mm Trap. Posted: April 1, 2025 | Last updated: April 1, 2025. June 1942, North Africa: As the sun scorches the endless desert, the British 7th Armoured ...

Deployed variously to North Africa, Italy and eventually participating in the D-Day landings at Normandy, the British 7th Armoured Division — better known as the “Desert Rats” — would go ...

The story of Geoffrey Waterson's life in the 7th Armoured Division Chapter 1. General Percival, the British Commander, was a staff officer in 1937 and had written a paper setting out ...

Percy Chafer landed on Sword Beach with the 7th Armoured Division of the British Army on D-Day. D-Day saw 156,000 Allied troops arrive in Normandy on 6 June 1944 during World War Two.

The epic tug-of-war struggle in North Africa between Britain's famed 7th Armoured Division and Rommel's Afrika Korps serves as the basis for the aptly named Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, an ...

For years, the British military has taken more and more risk against its future. In this way Prime Ministers have avoided accountability for an under-resourced foreign policy because the Ministry of ...