The 7th Armoured Division is thought to have in excess of 100 Cromwell tanks in its possession at the time, but unfortunately there is no central database detailing when and where British tanks ...

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.

The 1 st (UK) Division comprises: 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, 4th Light Brigade Combat Team.. 7th Light Mechanised ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The British 7th Armoured Brigade ... The 7th Armoured Division was formed in 1938 to protect the Suez Canal, and went on to fight in some of the war’s bloodiest battles.

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 ...

1,600 British troops head to Jordan for war game. A logistics war game aims to ensure the Army can still dispatch a 30,000-strong force to a crisis zone anywhere in the world, despite sharp cuts ...

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 ...