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The below is a list of updates and other notes that may be useful.
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31/8/2005 |
Website published, but with some pages for 4th Armoured Brigade still under construction |
8/10/2005 | The following pages for 4th Armoured Brigade have been updated and published - History, Organisation, Units, Engagements in 1943 |
18/10/2005 | The following pages for 4th Armoured Brigade have been updated and published - History, Organisation, Engagements in 1943, Engagements in 1944. Some work still needs to be done on the latter and the Engagements in 1945 page is currently being progressed. |
31/10/2005 | The following pages for 4th Armoured Brigade have been updated and published - History, Engagements, Engagements in 1944, Engagements in 1945. Also information on the Books and other Websites page has be updated. |
3/11/2005 | Pages detailing the Commanding Officers of the 4th and 7th Armoured Brigades added and the Site Map updated |
4/11/2005 | More Picture of 2nd RTR added to the 7th Armoured Brigade Artefact Pages, for The Far East and Middle East and Italy. |
5/11/2005 | The Engagements 1944 page for 7th Armoured Brigade and the Artefacts Page for 4th Armoured Brigade updated. |
7/11/2005 | The Engagements 1945 page for 7th Armoured Brigade updated. New Equipment page for equipment used by the two Brigades that is not already covered by the 7th Armoured Division Equipment Page. The Site Map has been updated to include this new page. |
18/11/2005 | Picture of 44th RTR approaching the River Sangro added to the 4th Armoured Brigade Pictures page |
6/1/2006 | Link to the History of DD Battery RHA (4th RHA) added to the Books and other Websites Page. |
29/1/2006 | Addition information on 50th RTR added to the 4th Armoured Brigade units page. |
26/2/2006 | Details of the Officers and No. 1's from D Troop, DD Battery, (4th RHA) corrected. See History of DD (Jerboa) Battery RHA. |
9/5/2006 | Picture of Churchill ARK added to the Equipment Page. |
23/5/2006 | Link to Multimap UK added to the History Page of the 4th Armoured Brigade and to the History Page of the 7th Armoured Brigade, to show location of the 7th Armoured Division (Desert Rats) Memorial, near Mundford, Norfolk. This memorial is also dedicated to both of these Brigades. |
23/8/2006 | Information on Order of Battle and Units that served with 7th Armoured Brigade update. |
1/9/2006 | Link to new Desert Rats Memorial Association Website provided, replacing link to old site. |
10/11/2006 | Information on 12th Royal Lancers added to the 4th Armoured Brigade Units page. The Artefacts and Pictures pages for 4th Armoured Brigade have been moved to a new website to allow for extra photographs of various units of the Brigade to be added. This change should appear seamless to any users of the site. As part of this process there is now a page of photographs for 4th Armoured Brigade in Sicily and Italy and another for Northern Europe. An additional page has been added to the Engagements of 4th Armoured Brigade, to cover the period in 1942 when it became an Independent Brigade and additional information upto to the end of the North African Campaign has been added to the Engagements 1943 page, too. Information relating to 44th RTR service in 4th Armoured Brigade has also been added to the pages from Engagements Page for 1943 (along with additional information on 3rd Country of London Yeomanry and 50th RTR) while work on additions to the Engagements Pages for 1944 and 1945, is in hand. The 4th Armoured Brigade Organisation, Engagements and History pages has also been updated. Finally the Site Map has been updated to reflect the changes above. |
8/12/2007 | The Engagement pages for both 4th and 7th Armoured Brigades, plus the 4th and 7th Armoured Brigade History pages have been updated following additions to the information on engagements both took part in prior to leaving 7th Armoured Division, the divisional history website. |
14/3/2007 | Information on 4th Armoured Brigade updated to reflect the change of title of the modern day Brigade to 4th Mechanized Brigade. |
28/5/2007 | Cap Badge for 98th Field Regiment Royal Artillery (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary's), added to the 4th Armoured Brigade Units page |
4/9/2009 | More information on the units that served as part or in support of 7th Armoured Brigade added to the Brigade Organisation and Units pages. Additional pictures added to the 7th Armoured Brigade Far East and Middle East and Italy Pages. |
14/2/2010 | Link to 44th RTR Facebook Page added to the Websites page, plus pictures of a 44th RTR Firefly in Normandy and captured 'Beetle Tanks' on the Siegfried Line to the 4th Armoured Brigade - Northern Europe Artefacts Page. |
9/10/2011 | Thanksgiving service Padua, May 1945 by 7th Armoured Brigade HQ added to Middle East and Italy Pages. |
15/12/2010 | Christmas Menu for 7th Armoured Brigade HQ added to the 7th Armoured Brigade Middle East and Italy Pages. |
20/1/2011 | Pictures of the liberation of Molliens Vidame added to the 4th Armoured Brigade Northern Europe Artefacts page |
9/9/2011 | More information on the units that served as part or in support of 7th Armoured Brigade added to the Brigade Organisation page |
3/1/2012 | Links archived copies of A Brief History of 44th Royal Tank Regiment and its Roll of Honour added to Websites page and 4th Armoured Brigade Units page. |
13/7/2012 | Colour photographs mainly of men from 44th Royal Tank Regiment, kindly provided by the people of Weert, The Netherlands have been added to the 4th Armoured Brigade Northern Europe Artefacts page. |
30/7/2012 | New website created due to the closure of the original Freehosting website by the ISP. This is linked to the 7th Armoured Division (The Desert Rats) site and the Desert Rats Association sites. |
1/8/2012 | New photographs and memorabilia of 2nd RTR added to the Far East and Middle East and Italy pages. |
22/1/2012 | Details of Commanding Officers for 7th Armoured Brigade updated. |
11/8/2022 | Details of units for 7th Armoured Brigade updated and the text for Engagements in 1942 also amended. |
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