Talk:7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

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Contents 1 Flash 2 Dissolution 3 Merge 4 1945 5 Blood soaked 6 A Mess!

[edit] Flash

Could someone please add an image of the Division's flash - the gerboa. If it's good enough for the Afrika Korps to have their's...GrahamBould 09:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, Victorrfr GrahamBould 07:52, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dissolution

At one point, I believe the 7th was dissolved and then rebuilt with equipment from the Tiger Convoy just prior to Operation Battleaxe. Does anyone have any details on why/when the unit was dissolved? Oberiko 22:05, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe the division was dissolved, rather it had very little equipment for a time, until the Tiger convoy arrived. Buckshot06 01:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Just to throw some information on this and i know this is why out of date, the Division was not dissolved, it was brought back into reserve and 2nd Armour went into the line as the 7th had taken allot of tank losses due to brakedowns during compass. They were back in action as a Brigade group for Brevity and was competly rebuilt just after this operation--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 11:18, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

It's pretty obvious it should be merged GrahamBould 12:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Buckshot06 01:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 1945

This article seems to give the impression that the desert rats disapeared after the war. I am sure this is not true. http://www.army.mod.uk/7bde/history.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.194.152.131 (talk) 10:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

The division did, it was disbanded. The current "desert rats" are a brigade within the new 1st armoured division and only carry on there history and honours but are not the division.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 11:19, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Blood soaked

How did J.A.L. "Blood" Caunter get left off the list of commanders? (OK, he was acting GOC, but...) Trekphiler 05:05, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A Mess!

This article is currently a mess!

Large ammounts of text copied and pasted from websites, few citations for anything and some of the ones which have been added have been done so incorrectly so they do not display properly.

As for the text, it is chocked full or errors - both of historical and gramatical!

We need a plan of action here...--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 20:59, 15 March 2008 (UTC)