The British Army in Cold War Germany Quiz

Answer: British Army of the Rhine

The British Army of the Rhine was the largest group of British forces grouped anywhere in the world during the period known as the Cold War.

Answer: Crucible

Crucible was not a tank, though nearly all British post WWII main battle tanks have started with the letter C.

Answer: Inner German Border

The Inner German border was more commonly known as the Iron Curtain. The border was a hideous collection of obstacles stretched between East and West Germany. Minefields, guard dogs and watchtowers were amongst a number of measures used by the East Germans to keep their own people from escaping to the West.

It was 870 miles in length and guarded by special East German border troops. The West German side of the border was patrolled by NATO forces and the West German Border Police or Bundesgrenzschutz.

Answer: Bad Hersfeld

Bad Hersfeld was in the American zone of West Germany and was primarily the base for 3/11 ACR.

Herford housed a divisional Headquarters, signals regiment and an Armoured Recce Regiment.

Osnabruck was the British Army of the Rhine's largest garrison.

Hanover housed a British Military Hospital and other supporting units.

Answer: Bielefeld

1st British Corps was situated in Ripon Barracks in Bielefeld after the Second World War from 1951 until 1992, when it was redesignated HQ ARRC and moved to Rheindalen.

Answer: 3rd Shock Army

The 3rd Shock Army were stationed in and around Magdeburg in East Germany. This formation of units would have faced the British armoured formations over in West Germany if NATO and the Warsaw pact forces had gone to war.

Answer: Group of Soviet Forces Germany

GSFG was the formation that all Soviet units in East Germany belonged to throughout the Cold War.

Answer: The Olympic Stadium

After World War II2 the British army used the northern part of the Berlin Olympic stadium as its HQ. This was its base until 1994, when the British army - along with the American, French and Russian armies - left Berlin.

Answer: Bergen Hohne

Bergen Hohne was and still is used by the British Army for live firing practice for its teeth arms. Armour and infantry from Britain and other NATO countries have used the ranges since the end of World War II.

Answer: Scarab

The CVR (T) group of vehicles were built by Alvis, a UK company, in the 1970s. They comprised Scorpion, a light tank with a 76 mm main gun; Scimitar, a light tank with a 30mm RARDEN cannon; Samson, the recovery vehicle; Spartan, the surveillance and engineer recce version; Sultan command vehicle and Samaritan ambulance version. Striker was also a variant of Spartan was configured to fire the Swingfire anti-tank missile.