Desert Rats

The Desert Rats was the nickname of the 7th Armoured division of the British Army. Formed in 1938 the unit spent nearly all of WWII overseas, initially in North Africa but then France and Germany. The one time the unit returned to the UK it was based in Thetford Forest in Norfolk. A memorial has been erected in the unit's honour and their camp is now a walking trail with information boards detailing life within the camp. Not much else is there to see other than the outlines of Nissen hut bases between the trees and a fenced off private museum.