Senior British officers have risked upsetting troops stationed 8,000 miles from home with a new ban on inappropriate pictures of naked women on the walls of their barracks.

Troops in the Falklands had plastered their rooms - in some cases, every inch of walls and ceilings - with pictures of naked topless, and scantily clad women torn from the pages of magazines and newspapers.

Photographs in the Sun show one room with literally hundreds of images covering every inch of wall and ceiling.

Military chiefs were apparently unimpressed with 'graphic' wallpaper on some barrack-room walls (stock photo)

Now soldiers sailors and airmen stationed on the South Atlantic islands, site of the British defeat of the 1982 Argentine invasion, have been told to take the pictures down, the paper reported.

An order states: 'COS [Chief of Staff] was not happy with the more graphic wallpaper in some of the rooms.

'It all needs to come down as per direction straight from the top.'

The British military base on the Falklands, Mount Pleasant, has new rules for graphic wallpaper

An aerial view of the runway and airport complex at Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands

Troops at the RAF Mount Pleasant base were told they could display a few photos of scantily-clad models but only if they would look 'appropriate on a family beach'.

One said: 'Some of it was getting a bit out of hand but to have zero nudity might be taking it a bit far.'

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence said: 'It is right we provide guidance to personnel on the appropriate decoration of living quarters.'