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Brigadier Martin Farndale Brigade Commander 7th Armoured
Brigade (The Desert Rats) Soltau, West Germany 1973 to 1975
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1974
7 Armoured Brigade Staff, 1974
Administrative Inspection 7 Armoured Brigade Signal Squadron 1974
Exercise Red Rat 1974:
Exercise Red Rat 1974, CinC BAOR, Brigadier MartinFarndale, CGS
Watching Harries with Air Cdr Paddy Hine
Air Cdr Hine, MBF and CinC
Chieftain MBT,
3 RTR, on Ex Red Rat 1974
MBF, CinC, CGS, Air Cdr Hine
SS11 Scout on Ex Red Rat
Visit from military representative NATO
HQ 1 Division
Tactical Picnic in 1974
The Iron
Curtain in 1974:
Along the
Border at a turn
Blown bridge on the River Elbe
Border Post
East German patrol on the River Elbe
Looking into deserted village in East Germany
Looking into the East
Scout helicopter
The Elbe
Soltau Open Day – King’s Own
Pipes and Drums of the King’s Own Borderers
Speeches
Queen’s Birthday Parade, Soltau 20
June 1974
Brigade
Commander’s Training Conference
7 Armoured
Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron
49 Field
Regiment Royal Artillery winning the rugby
Armoured parade
1975
BATUS,
Suffield, Canada with General Sir Jack Harman, Commander 1 (BR) Corps
Visit to the
King’s Own Borderers in Belfast, 1975
Brigade
Commander’s office in Soltau
Brigade
Conference, 1975
Brigade Staff in 1975
Field Marshall
Baker in Hohne in 1975
Orders before
the Battle of Sidi Rezegh in 1941
Tactical Picnic
in 1975 with 1 (German) Division
Visit by
General Sir Harry Tuzo to Hohne in 1975
Annual
Inspection of 7 Armoured Brigade Signal Squadron in August 1975
In 1975 MBF
worked to reduce the size of the Brigade Tactical Headquarters to the minimum
number of 22 armoured vehicles:
Anglo German
soccer match
Arrival of the
first Gazelle helicopter in Soltau
Farewell to the
Germans in Soltau
Divisional
Study Day at Schloss Marienburg in July 1975
Hohne fete July 1975
Visit to the German Armoured School at Munsterlager, with Brigadier Ewart,
July 1975
Terece Cuneo uveilng his painting of the Battle of Sidi Rezegh, Officers’
Mess, Soltau, 21 November 1975
Sidi Rezegh
Day, Brigadier Davy takes the salute, November 1975
Martin Farndale reads the lesson at the remembrance survey on Sidi Rezegh
Day, November 1975
1977
Disbandment of
7 Armoured Brigade, Soltau, November 1977
1978
1981
Rat Resurrection Diner, 9 January 1981
The 7 Armoured
Brigade Commander’s Residence, the Jagd Haus Weiss:
