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:
