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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. I ...

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 down in ...

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 ...