British Army of the Rhine

[5] Its original function was to control the corps districts which were running the military government of the British zone of Allied-occupied Germany.

After the assumption of government by civilians, it became the command formation for the troops in West Germany only, rather than being responsible for administration as well.

From 1952, the commander-in-chief of the BAOR was also the commander of NATO's Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) in the event of a general war with the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies.

[8] With the end of the Cold War, the 1993 Options for Change defence cuts resulted in BAOR being reduced in size, and in 1994 it became British Forces Germany (BFG).

[12] Following the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, the permanent deployment of British Army units in Germany was reduced.

Formal group photograph of British and French officers and commissioners outside the house of the Commander-in-Chief Allied Armies of Occupation, Marienberg .
18th Hussars in Cologne, 6 December 1918.
Field Marshal Lord Plumer , General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the British Army of the Rhine, taking the salute from the 29th Division entering Cologne by the Hohenzollern Bridge .
Two tanks passing through Cologne for inspection by the VI Corps Commander, General Aylmer Haldane , June 1919.
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery recording a radio broadcast, to mark the change over of the British Liberation Army to the British Army of the Rhine.
A Warrior tracked armoured vehicle , as used by the 13 mechanised infantry battalions of the 1st, 3rd and 4th Armoured Divisions of the British Army of the Rhine, during the period 1988–1994.