British Army's Desert Rats A sculpture at Wellington barracks is honouring the last British soldiers to deploy in Afghanistan ahead of the military withdrawal later this year. Tuesday 17 June 2014 ...

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The Desert Rats, the most famous tank unit in the British Army, will be left without any tanks as a result of a shake-up of the Armed Forces brought about by the Coalition’s austerity drive, it ...

THE HEADQUARTERS of the 7th Armoured Brigade - the 'Desert Rats' - is to leave the dingy garrison town of Bergen–Belsen, 50 miles south of Hamburg, and move back to the UK as part of the army's ...

Legendary British armoured warriors the Desert Rats are to lose their tanks. The Army’s 4th and 7th Armoured Brigades, who fought in the desert against Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Second ...

Nov. 3, 2006 — -- He looks the part. He's a dashing-looking British lieutenant colonel in the desert. David Labouchere has turned his men into desert rats. They patrol and live on the sand of ...

A sculpture of the famous Desert Rats insignia has been created from parts of armoured vehicles used in Afghanistan. Anna Redwood took a month to create the 11ft (3.3m) artwork at Camp Bastion.

The latest British soldier to be killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq was named last night as Sgt John Jones.

Desert Rat’s photo album charting the iconic British Army unit’s journey from north Africa to Germany during WWII goes up for auction. Sergeant Ronald Jenner, of the 7th Armoured Division ...

A sculpture of the famous Desert Rats insignia has been created from parts of armoured vehicles used in Afghanistan. Anna Redwood took a month to create the 11ft (3.3m) artwork at Camp Bastion.