One of nine photographs of the Life Guards with their Scorpion light tanks in Norway, 1976, Belize, 1977 and exercising on Salisbury Plain, plus photographs of A Sqn Life Guards during Exercise Gobi Dust dressed as US troops and driving Sheridan tanks, in Kansas, USA, May 1977
From a collection of photographs assembled for use in Col Robin McNish’s ‘Iron Division - The History of the 3rd Division’, depicting the 3rd Division, 1918-1977.
After the Suez Crisis of 1956 showed the need for more rapid mobilisation, the 3rd Division pioneered the concept of air portability in the late 1950s and 1960s.