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  2. 7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team - Wikipedia

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    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. It saw active service in the Crimean War, the Second Boer War and both the First and the Second World Wars.

  3. 1st Battalion, The Rifles - Wikipedia

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    The battalion is currently based in Dhekelia, British Forces Cyprus until 2025. 1 Rifles will return to Chepstow in the summer of 2025 to take on a new role as a Light Mechanised Battalion driving Foxhound vehicles. Towards the end of the decade, 1 Rifles will move to new build facilities at Caerwent Barracks. [7]

  4. Future Soldier (British Army) - Wikipedia

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    7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team is a high readiness and highly mobile formation. 7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team, in Cottesmore [10] Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, in Leuchars (Light Cavalry) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards, in Catterick (Light Mechanised Infantry)

  5. 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Battalion (Mk VI light tanks) and the 6th Battalion (light tanks and obsolete Vickers Medium Mark II), Royal Tank Corps, were assigned to the division's newly formed Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt) (later the 4th Armoured Brigade), and started to receive modern Cruiser Mk I tanks in October 1939 to replace the medium tanks. [17] [18] [f]

  6. 7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    The brigade began to leave in late June 2003, being replaced by 19th Mechanised Brigade. [ 12 ] Between October 2005 and May 2006 the brigade deployed to Iraq again for Operation Telic 7 under the command of Brigadier Patrick Marriott .

  7. List of commanders of the British 7th Armoured Division

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    It was temporarily disbanded, when it was turned into a military district although it was soon reactivated. It remained in Germany until it was finally disbanded in 1958. The legacy of the division was maintained by the 7th Armoured Brigade until 2014, when it was reorganised as the 7th Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team.

  8. Brigade combat team - Wikipedia

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    As of 2014, the armored brigade combat team is the largest brigade combat team formation with 4,743 soldiers. Prior to 2012, the armored brigade combat team was named the heavy brigade combat team. [4] An ABCT includes 87 Abrams, 152 Bradley IFVs, 18 M109 self-propelled howitizers and 45 armed M113 vehicles. [10]

  9. 4th Regiment Royal Artillery - Wikipedia

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    It is currently based at Alanbrooke Barracks in Topcliffe and serves in the light close support role, equipped with 105mm L118 light guns supporting 7 Light Mechanised Brigade Combat Team. The regiment is part of NATO's Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (Land). [2]