having been deemed to have not met expectations, and the division was reorganised in line with Nott's recommendations. It then commanded the 7th, 12th, and 22nd Armoured Brigades. Each brigade contained either two armoured regiments and one mechanised infantry battalion, or two mechanised infantry battalions and one armoured regiment. On 11 November 1983, the divisional insignia was changed. Major-General Brian Kenny decided to merge the current insignia with that used by the Second World War-era 1st Armoured Division. This combined the triangle and red outline with a charging rhino motif. Starting that year, the first Challenger 1 tanks were provided to the BAOR, to replace the Chieftain, and all armoured regiments had converted by the end of the decade. Gulf War The headquarters of the division was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990 to command British land forces in the Gulf War. It had the 4th Armoured Brigade and 7th Armoured Brigade under command. During the war, it came under the US VII Corps and was part of the great armoured left-hook that destroyed many Iraqi Republican Guard formations. The two brigades in the division alternated heading the advance. The division participated in the Battle of Norfolk. During this engagement it destroyed several companies of Iraqi T-55 tanks. After 48 hours of combat, the division destroyed or isolated four Iraqi infantry divisions (the 26th, 48th, 31st, and 25th) and overran the Iraqi 52nd Armoured Division in several sharp engagements. The division traveled 217 miles in 97 hours. It captured or destroyed about 300 tanks and a very large number of armoured personnel carriers, trucks, reconnaissance vehicles, etc. The division also took over 7,000 Iraqi prisoners of war including two division commanders and two other general officers. End of the Cold War Following the Iraqi defeat and liberation of Kuwait, the division returned to Germany in early 1991. Overlapping the Gulf War, was the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. In July 1990, the British government announced Options for Change. This framework sought to restructure the British military based on the new strategic situation and allow for furher cost saving measures to be enacted. The military was to be decreased by 18 per cent (56,000) by the mid 1990s, with the BAOR to be cut in half. As part of this, the division was disbanded on 31 December 1992 and its headquarters became HQ Lower