Lieutenant General Sir Martin Farndale KCB

Commander 1^st (British) Corps

Bielefeld, West Germany

1983 to 1985

FAR00911

Home Page Return to the Home Page of the Farndale Family Website

The Farndale Story The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

Themes Links to other pages with historical research and related material

Related Family Stories The story of the Bakers of Highfields, the Chapmans, and other related families

Outside the Corps Headquarters, Bielefeld, 1984

1982

Warning Order Appointment, 1983

1983

Visit by Margaret Thatcher in 1983 – see also the video of the occasion.

The British receive civic honours in Bielefeld, 9 May 1983

(Daily Post: The Paper for Wales, 28 October 1983) (The Scotsman, 31 October 1983)

Ptarmigan

Corps Headquarters

1984

Exercise Lionheart 1984

(The Scotsman, 17 September 1984) (The Scotsman, 21 September 1984) (The Scotsman, 3 October 1984)

Visit by HRH Prince Philip in 1984

Tracked Rapier

The Queen’s review of the Rhine Troops, 24 May 1984

1985

Terence Cuneo’s painting of Exercise Lionheart, 1985

Second Division (Martin’s old Division as GOC) had moved back to York in the UK, but was still part of the 1 (BR) Corps Order of Battle