Media were invited to join 20 Armoured Brigade at Barden's Clump on Salisbury Plain Training Area on Thursday 28 Jul 2011 as they commence their final training exercise in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan this Autumn as part of Operation Herrick. The 20th Light Armoured Brigade was formed on 2 September 1939, originally comprising the 1st Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, and 1st and 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry. It was re-titled 20th Armoured Brigade on 14 April 1940. Disbanded in 1943 it was reformed at the early stages of the Cold War and moved to Germany in 1951 to supplement the British contribution to NATO forces. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 the British government announced a series of cuts in defence spending under the 1990 'Options for Change' programme. As a result of the restructuring, in December 1992, the Brigade merged with the 33rd Armoured Brigade and moved its headquarters to Paderborn where it came under the command of the 1st (UK) Armoured Division.
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