
British Forces School In Germany Celebrates Ahead Of Troop Drawdown With TV Show Faces
Watch: The Attenborough school in Germany put on a farewell show with popular acts from British TV and parent dance-offs
Watch: The Attenborough school in Germany put on a farewell show with popular acts from British TV and parent dance-offs
The national event is in Salisbury, with other cities and towns also celebrating.
The events took place at Normandy Barracks, the Army's last remaining military training centre in Germany.
Before saying goodbye to saying goodbye to the BFG community, Haig School proudly donated a tree to the Gütersloh Stadtpark.
Army reservists who usually work in the NHS have been in Germany preparing for frontline operations.
The defence minister enjoyed a lamb curry with personnel at Larkhill Garrison.
Soldiers and their families have taken courses at Army education centres in the country since 1947.
British Forces Germany's Headquarters will close later this year due to a big reduction in Britain's troop presence there.
26 Regiment Royal Artillery has spent 41 years in the country, and the last 30 of them in Gütersloh.
In the late 1940s, 98-year-old Gail Halvorsen airdropped sweets to starving children during the Berlin Airlift.
After nearly 75 years in Germany, most British forces will leave the country this summer.
A study asked the public of key NATO countries who they would be willing to defend if Russia attacked.
NATO's Secretary General said Berlin must live up to commitments it had signed up to at a summit in 2014.
41 AEC in Paderborn has run its final compulsory military training courses.
The toddler went missing on her second birthday near the British Army base in Paderborn, Germany, in 1981.
Across Europe, countries celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany with a public holiday every year.