The ‘Desert Rats’ of the British 7th Armoured Division engaged in the successful Tunisian campaign - Hulton Archive On the afternoon of May 12 1943, in Cap Bon, north-east Tunisia, Gen Theodor Graf ...

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 in ...

This story has been submitted to the People's War site by Sarah Harding of Kirklees Libraries on behalf of Arthur Turner and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understand ...

Archive List > Books > The Story of Geoffrey Waterson's life in the 7th Armoured Division (29) put into Port Elizabeth. Here we spent some days before being transferred to the 'Nieuw Amsterdam', a ...

June 1942, North Africa: As the sun scorches the endless desert, the British 7th Armoured Brigade, the "Desert Rats," brace for a crucial showdown in Operation Battleaxe. Their secret weapon: the ...

Originally designed for Iran, the British Challenger 1 main battle tank was adopted by the British Army after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and became a legend in Operation Desert Storm. -During the ...

The Libyan government has been “extremely apologetic” about the desecration of British war graves in the eastern city of Benghazi, a UK Foreign Office Minister said today. British troops stationed in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Main Image: Photograph of field ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics & policy news every morning. The British army is to base hundreds of armoured vehicles in Germany, just over a year after ...

The debate about the future of the UK’s heavy armour has been reignited by the recent revelation that the British Army is considering retiring its main battle tanks in the Integrated Review. While ...

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 ...