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7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

Index 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 7th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade formation of the British Army. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 138 relations: Adrian Bradshaw, Allies of World War II, Andrew Ridgway, Andrew Stewart (British Army officer), Anthony Mullens, Armoured warfare, Army 2020, Axis powers, Balkans, Basra, Basra International Airport, Battle of Monte Cassino, Bergen-Hohne Garrison, Black Watch, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brigade, British armoured formations of the Second World War, British Army, British Army of the Rhine, British involvement in the Iraq War, British Raj, Burma campaign, Challenger 2, Christopher Wallace (British Army officer), Coalition of the Gulf War, Commonwealth of Nations, Daily Express, Egypt, Eighth Army (United Kingdom), Fedayeen Saddam, German Army (1935–1945), Gothic Line, Graham Binns, Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons), I Canadian Corps, Ian Baker (British Army officer), Ian Gordon Gill, Imperial Japanese Army, Implementation Force, Invasion of Poland, Iraq, Iraq War, Irish Guards, Irish Independent, Italian campaign (World War II), Italian invasion of Egypt, James Woodham, Jerboa, John Anstice, John Kiszely, ... Expand index (88 more) »

  2. Armoured brigades of the British Army
  3. Armoured brigades of the British Army in World War II
  4. Military units and formations of the Gulf War
  5. Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Iraq War
  6. Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

Adrian Bradshaw

General Sir Adrian John Bradshaw, (born 1958) is a former British Army officer who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Andrew Ridgway

Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Peter Ridgway, (born 20 March 1950) is a former British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

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Andrew Stewart (British Army officer)

Major-General Andrew Richard Evelyn De Cardonnel Stewart (born 1952) is a former British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Multi-National Division (South East), Iraq.

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Anthony Mullens

Lieutenant General Sir Anthony Richard Guy Mullens, (10 May 1936 – 27 November 2009) was a British Army officer who served as Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Systems) from 1989 to 1992.

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Armoured warfare

Armoured warfare or armored warfare (American English; see spelling differences), is the use of armoured fighting vehicles in modern warfare.

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Army 2020

Army 2020 was the name given to the restructuring of the British Army in the early and mid-2010s, in light of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2010.

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Axis powers

The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.

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Balkans

The Balkans, corresponding partially with the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographical area in southeastern Europe with various geographical and historical definitions.

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Basra

Basra (al-Baṣrah) is a city in southern Iraq.

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Basra International Airport

Basra International Airport (Maṭār al-Baṣrah ad-Duwaliyy) is international airport in Iraq, serving the southern city of Basra.

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Battle of Monte Cassino

The Battle of Monte Cassino, also known as the Battle for Rome, was a series of four military assaults by the Allies against German forces in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II.

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Bergen-Hohne Garrison

Bergen-Hohne Garrison was a major British garrison in the post-Cold War period, with facilities located close to Bergen at Lager Hohne, at Lager Oerbke near Fallingbostel and at Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Black Watch

The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (Босна и Херцеговина), sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe, situated on the Balkan Peninsula.

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Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that typically comprises three to six battalions plus supporting elements.

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British armoured formations of the Second World War

During the Second World War the British Army deployed armoured divisions and independent armoured and tank brigades.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British Army of the Rhine

British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) was the name given to two British Army formations of the same name.

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British involvement in the Iraq War

Operation Telic (Op TELIC) was the codename under which all of the United Kingdom's military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on 22 May 2011.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Burma campaign

The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma.

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Challenger 2

The FV4034 Challenger 2 (MoD designation "CR2") is a third generation British main battle tank (MBT) in service with the armies of the United Kingdom, Oman, and Ukraine.

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Christopher Wallace (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Brooke Quentin Wallace, (3 January 1943 – 7 January 2016) was a British Army officer and military historian.

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Coalition of the Gulf War

On 29 November 1990, the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 authorized the assembly of a multinational military coalition to fight against Iraq in the Gulf War.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Daily Express

The Daily Express is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid format.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Eighth Army (United Kingdom)

The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War.

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Fedayeen Saddam

Fedayeen Saddam (Fidā'iyyī Saddām) was a paramilitary Fedayeen organization intensely loyal to the Ba'athist Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein.

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German Army (1935–1945)

The German Army (Heer) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946.

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Gothic Line

The Gothic Line (Gotenstellung; Linea Gotica) was a German and Italian defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II.

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Graham Binns

Major General Graham John Binns, is a retired British Army officer.

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Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)

The Highlanders, 4th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS) is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland.

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I Canadian Corps

I Canadian Corps was one of the two corps fielded by the Canadian Army during the Second World War.

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Ian Baker (British Army officer)

Major-General Ian Helstrip Baker CBE (26 November 1927 – 28 July 2005) was a British Army officer who became Assistant Chief of the General Staff.

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Ian Gordon Gill

Major General Ian Gordon Gill, (9 November 1919 – 23 November 2006) was a British Army officer who fought with distinction during the Second World War, later serving as Assistant Chief of the General Staff from 1970 to 1972.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.

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Implementation Force

The Implementation Force (IFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peace enforcement force in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a one-year mandate from 20 December 1995 to 20 December 1996 under the codename Operation Joint Endeavour.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Iraq

Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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Irish Guards

The Irish Guards (IG) is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army and is part of the Guards Division. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and Irish Guards are military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Iraq War.

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Irish Independent

The Irish Independent is an Irish daily newspaper and online publication which is owned by Independent News & Media (INM), a subsidiary of Mediahuis.

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Italian campaign (World War II)

The Italian campaign of World War II, also called the Liberation of Italy following the German occupation in September 1943, consisted of Allied and Axis operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to 1945.

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Italian invasion of Egypt

The Italian invasion of Egypt (Operazione E) was an offensive in the Second World War from Italian Libya, against British, Commonwealth and Free French in the neutral Kingdom of Egypt.

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James Woodham

Brigadier James Medley Woodham, is a retired senior officer of the British Army.

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Jerboa

Jerboas are hopping desert rodents found throughout North Africa and Asia, and are members of the family Dipodidae.

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John Anstice

Brigadier John Henry Anstice DSO & Bar (25 October 1897 – 10 February 1970) was a British Army officer who commanded numerous brigades during World War II.

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John Kiszely

Lieutenant General Sir John Panton Kiszely, (born 2 April 1948) is a retired senior British Army officer who was director general of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom from 2005 to 2008.

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Kenneth Cooper (British Army officer)

Major General Kenneth Christie Cooper, (18 October 1905 – 4 September 1981) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 7th Armoured Division from 1953 to 1956.

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Kosovo War

The Kosovo War (Lufta e Kosovës; Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.

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Kuwait

Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.

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List of British brigades of the Second World War

This is a list of British Brigades in the Second World War.

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Martin Farndale

General Sir Martin Baker Farndale, (6 January 1929 – 10 May 2000) was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1980s.

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Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

The Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre was a major theatre of operations during the Second World War.

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Mercian Regiment

The Mercian Regiment (Cheshire, Worcesters and Foresters, and Staffords) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, which is recruited from five of the counties that formed the ancient kingdom of Mercia. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and Mercian Regiment are military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Iraq War.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MOD or MoD) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Nick Welch (British Army officer)

Nicholas Welch (born c. 1964) is a retrospectively dismissed British Army major general who served as the Assistant Chief of the General Staff.

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Norman Arthur

Lieutenant-General Sir John Norman Stewart Arthur, KCB, CVO (6 March 1931 – 18 December 2023) was the General Officer Commanding in Scotland.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Operation Crusader

Operation Crusader (18 November – 30 December 1941) was a military operation of the Western Desert Campaign during the Second World War by the British Eighth Army (with Commonwealth, Indian and Allied contingents) against the Axis forces (German and Italian) in North Africa commanded by Generalleutnant (Lieutenant-General) Erwin Rommel.

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Operation Granby

Operation Granby, commonly abbreviated Op Granby, was the code name given to the British military operations during the 1991 Gulf War.

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Otho Prior-Palmer

Brigadier Sir Otho Leslie Prior-Palmer, DSO (28 October 1897 – 29 January 1986) was an Anglo-Irish British Army officer and Conservative Party politician.

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Patrick Cordingley

Major General Patrick Anthony John Cordingley, (born 6 October 1944) is a retired British Army officer who commanded the 2nd Division from 1995 to 1996.

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Patrick Marriott

Major General Patrick Claude Marriott (born 23 February 1958) is a former British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

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Patrick Palmer (British Army officer)

General Sir Charles Patrick Ralph Palmer, (29 April 1933 – 23 November 1999) was a senior British Army officer.

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Paul Nanson

Major General Paul Anthony Edward Nanson, (born 10 May 1965) is a retired British Army officer who served as Commander 7th Armoured Brigade, Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and General Officer Commanding Recruiting and Initial Training Command.

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Philip Hammond

Philip Hammond, Baron Hammond of Runnymede (born 4 December 1955) is a British politician and life peer who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2016 to 2019, Foreign Secretary from 2014 to 2016, and Defence Secretary from 2011 to 2014.

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Pristina

Pristina, Prishtina or Priština is the capital and largest city of Kosovo.

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Protectorate

A protectorate, in the context of international relations, is a state that is under protection by another state for defence against aggression and other violations of law.

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Queen's Regiment

The Queen's Regiment (QUEENS) was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade.

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Queen's Royal Lancers

The Queen's Royal Lancers (QRL) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Ralph Younger

Major-General Ralph Younger (12 July 1904 – 2 August 1985) was a British Army officer.

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Reginald Harding

Major-General Reginald Peregrine Harding, (3 July 1905 – 27 December 1981) was a British Army officer.

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Republican Guard (Iraq)

The Iraqi Republican Guard (Ḥaras al-ʿIrāq al-Jamhūrīy) was a branch of the Iraqi military from 1969 to 2003, which existed primarily during the presidency of Saddam Hussein. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and Republican Guard (Iraq) are military units and formations of the Gulf War.

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Richard Shirreff

General Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff, (born 21 October 1955) is a retired senior British Army officer and author.

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Richard Swinburn

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hull Swinburn, (30 October 1937 – 11 October 2017) was a senior British Army officer who served as Commander of the UK Field Army from 1994 to 1995.

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Richard Worsley

General Sir Richard Edward Worsley, (29 May 1923 – 23 February 2013) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the Second World War and later commanded 1st (British) Corps.

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Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)

The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen" to provide sharpshooters, scouts, and skirmishers.

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Robert Ford (British Army officer)

General Sir Robert Cyril Ford (29 December 1923 – 24 November 2015) was a British Army general who was Adjutant-General to the Forces.

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Royal Anglian Regiment

The Royal Anglian Regiment (R ANGLIAN) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.

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Royal Army Ordnance Corps

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army.

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Royal Army Service Corps

The Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) was a corps of the British Army responsible for land, coastal and lake transport, air despatch, barracks administration, the Army Fire Service, staffing headquarters' units, supply of food, water, fuel and domestic materials such as clothing, furniture and stationery and the supply of technical and military equipment.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises thirteen Regular Army regiments, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery and five Army Reserve regiments.

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Royal Corps of Signals

The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals – abbreviated to R SIGNALS or R SIGS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.

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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) is the maintenance arm of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is the engineering arm of the British Army.

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Royal Horse Artillery

The Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) was formed in 1793 as a distinct arm of the Royal Regiment of Artillery (commonly termed Royal Artillery) to provide horse artillery support to the cavalry units of the British Army.

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Royal Hussars

The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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Royal Logistic Corps

The Royal Logistic Corps provides logistic support functions to the British Army.

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Royal Military Police

The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of army service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK and while service personnel are deployed overseas on operations and exercises. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and Royal Military Police are military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Iraq War.

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Royal Regiment of Fusiliers

The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (often referred to as the Royal Fusiliers or, simply, the Fusiliers) is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division.

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Royal Regiment of Scotland

The Royal Regiment of Scotland (SCOTS) is the senior and only current Scottish line infantry regiment of the British Army Infantry.

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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, and the senior Scottish regiment.

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Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein (28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003.

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Sandy Storrie

Lieutenant-General Alexander James Sanson "Sandy" Storrie, (born 1962) is a former senior British Army officer who served as Deputy Commander Resolute Support Mission.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Secretary of State for Defence

The secretary of state for defence, also known as the defence secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, with responsibility for the Ministry of Defence.

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Shatt al-Arab

The Arvand Rud (lit; lit) is a river about in length that is formed at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in the town of al-Qurnah in the Basra Governorate of southern Iraq.

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Siege of Tobruk

The Siege of Tobruk took place between 10 April and 27 November 1941, during the Western Desert campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War.

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Soltau

Soltau is a mid-sized town in the Lüneburg Heath in the district of Heidekreis, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Spring 1945 offensive in Italy

The spring 1945 offensive in Italy, codenamed Operation Grapeshot, was the final Allied attack during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War.

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Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peacekeeping force deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina after the Bosnian War.

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Staffordshire Regiment

The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales') (or simply "Staffords" for short) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Timothy Sulivan

Major-General Timothy John Sulivan CB CBE DL (born 1946) is a former British Army officer who commanded 4th Division.

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Tobruk

Tobruk or Tobruck (Ἀντίπυργος, Antipyrgos; Antipyrgus; Tobruch; Ṭubruq; also transliterated as Tobruch and Tubruk) is a port city on Libya's eastern Mediterranean coast, near the border with Egypt.

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Tunisian campaign

The Tunisian campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces from 17 November 1942 to 13 May 1943.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)

The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021.

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Warrior tracked armoured vehicle

The Warrior tracked vehicle family is a series of British armoured vehicles, originally developed to replace FV430 series armoured vehicles.

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West Yorkshire Regiment

The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own) (14th Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and West Yorkshire Regiment are military units and formations in Burma in World War II.

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Western Desert campaign

The Western Desert campaign (Desert War) took place in the deserts of Egypt and Libya and was the main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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11th Hussars

The 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army established in 1715.

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14th/20th King's Hussars

The 14th/20th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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19th Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 19th Light Brigade is an Army Reserve formation of the British Army.

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1st (United Kingdom) Division

The 1st (United Kingdom) Division is an active division of the British Army that has been formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and the present.

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1st Royal Tank Regiment

The 1st Royal Tank Regiment (1 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army.

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2 Medical Regiment (United Kingdom)

2 Medical Regiment is a regiment of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the British Army.

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2003 invasion of Iraq

The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War.

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22nd Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 22nd Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army that saw service during and after the Second World War. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and 22nd Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) are armoured brigades of the British Army and armoured brigades of the British Army in World War II.

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2nd Royal Tank Regiment

The 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and 2nd Royal Tank Regiment are military units and formations disestablished in 2014.

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32 Engineer Regiment (United Kingdom)

32 Engineer Regiment is a regiment of the British Army's Royal Engineers.

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3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery in the British Army. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery are military units and formations established in 1938.

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4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers

The 4th Lancashire Artillery Volunteers, later renamed to the 4th West Lancashire Brigade, known as 'The Old 4th', was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Liverpool in 1859.

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4th Light Brigade Combat Team

4th Light Brigade Combat Team, provides light infantry mass, offering significant utility in operate tasks and with the ability to surge ground manoeuvre units by air or sea to reinforce UK forces or partners.Previously known as 4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East, and before that as 4th Mechanized Brigade and before that 4th Armoured Brigade is a brigade formation of the British Army, currently based in Catterick, North Yorkshire as part of 1st (United Kingdom) Division.

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5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards

The 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed in 1922 by the amalgamation of the 5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) and the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.

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5th Royal Tank Regiment

5th Royal Tank Regiment (5 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army in existence for 52 years, from 1917 until 1969.

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6th Royal Tank Regiment

The 6th Royal Tank Regiment (6 RTR) was a regiment of the Royal Tank Regiment, of the British Army, until 1959.

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7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The 7th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) and 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) are military units and formations established in 1938.

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7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team

The 7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team is a formation in the British Army with a direct lineage to 7th Armoured Brigade and a history that stretches back to the Napoleonic Wars.

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7th Queen's Own Hussars

The 7th Queen's Own Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first formed in 1689.

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8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693.

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8th Royal Tank Regiment

The 8th Royal Tank Regiment (8 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army until 1960.

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9th/12th Royal Lancers

The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1960 by the amalgamation of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and the 12th Royal Lancers.

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See also

Armoured brigades of the British Army

Armoured brigades of the British Army in World War II

Military units and formations of the Gulf War

Military units and formations of the United Kingdom in the Iraq War

Royal Scots Dragoon Guards

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Armoured_Brigade_(United_Kingdom)

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