Soldiers bound for Leuchars have bid a formal farewell to Germany.
Although it will be July until the main group of 800 troops and their families relocate to Fife, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (SCOTSDG) have marched through Fallingbostel for the last time.
The SCOTS DG have been based in “Falli” for over 20 years and received the ‘Fahrenband’ from the Mayor of Fallingbostel to honour the time spent there.
It comes days after SCOTSDG played a key role at an event in Edinburgh when they paraded a replica of the eagle captured by Sergeant Ewart at the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.
The real eagle has been loaned to the National Museum Scotland for their exhibition on the battle.
The official handover of RAF Leuchars to the army took place on March 31.
It is now known as Leuchars Station.
The phased arrival of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 2 Close Support Battalion of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and 110 Provost Company of the Royal Military Police has been ongoing for months.
Some families have already relocated from Fallingbostel, with an advance party of troops arriving at Leuchars in March/April.
The bulk of the soldiers and their families are expected to arrive in mid-summer.
The SCOTSDG held their final live firing exercise at Fallingbostel in February.
With the regiment continuing its conversion from a tank regiment to a light cavalry regiment using gun-mounted Jackals, the training under way in Germany was invaluable.
The massive firing ranges surrounded by 65km of road between the Falling-bostel and Bergen-Hohne garrison are among the largest Nato ranges in Europe.
The Bergen training area was originally developed for the Wehrmacht during the pre-war 1930s.
Fallingbostel garrison was home to British and Soviet prisoner of war camps while just a couple of miles to the south west lies the remains of the infamous Belsen concentration camp.
The 70th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s liberation by the British was marked last month.
The Fallingbostel barracks will be empty by September.