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Photographs taken by British official photographers of the British Army in North Africa and the Middle East 1940 - 1947.
Photographers: Ackland A W (Sgt), Adams (L/Cpl), Arthur (Sgt), Ashwood Terry, Bacon (Capt), Baker R S (Sgt), Barker J E (Lt), Barnes P A ? (Sgt), Berkshire (Sgt), Berman (Sgt), Bowden (Sgt), Brown D ? (Sgt), Bryan P (Sgt), Butler (Cpl), Cash (Lt, later Capt), Chetwyn Len (Sgt), Clarke Rupert (Capt Sir), Clayton C G (2/Lt), Clegg (Sgt), Clements H J (Lt), Clews (Sgt), Cook (Lt), Cracknell F C (Spr), Crapper G (Sgt), Currey A (Sgt), Dallison (Lt, later Capt), Davies L B (Lt), Davis D (Sgt), Deakin (Sgt), Devon (F/O, RAFPR), Drennan A (Sgt), Ely (Capt), Flack (Sgt), Fox (Sgt), Garnham C E (Sgt, later Lt), Gilroy (Lt), Gladstone (Sgt), Graham (Lt, later Capt), Gregory R W (Sgt), Gregson (Lt), Groom (Sgt), Gunn (Sgt), Hanbury (Sgt), Hawkins T J (Sgt), Heaney (Sgt), Herbert J (Sgt), James (Sgt, later Lt), Jarche J, Jessiman (Sgt), Jordan W (Sgt), Keating G (Capt), Keys (Lt), Knight G B U (Lt, later Capt), Lambert (Sgt), Lansdown (Sgt), Lawrence (Sgt), Legg (Sgt), Lotzof (Sgt, later Lt), McAndrew (Sgt), McArdle (Sgt), Macdonald (Maj), McLaren (Lt), Mapham J (Sgt), Marshall (Sgt), Martin (Sgt), Mayne (Lt, later Capt), Meek F (Pte, later Sgt), Moorhouse (Cpl), Morniment (Sgt), Morris G (Sgt), Morris R H (Sgt), Mott F W (Sgt), Muir (Sgt), Murray (Lt), Neill R (Sgt), Newman (Sgt), Oldham A I (Sgt), Palmer F E (Lt), Palmer (Sgt), Poston (Capt), Read G W (Capt), Redgrave (Capt), Reid (Sgt), Rex (Sgt), Rodwell K (Sgt), Rooke (Sgt), Rosenberg H H (A/M), Sheridan (Sgt), Shrimpton S (Sgt), Silverside (Sgt), Simms (Sgt), Slade (Sgt), Smales (Sgt), Smith A N (Lt), Smith N (Lt), Smith W H (Sgt), Tanner A R (Lt), Taylor (Sgt), Tennyson D'Eyncourt (Capt), Travis (Sgt), Turner W R (Sgt), Vanderson W G (Lt), Walker (Sgt), Wernham (Sgt), West (Lt), Windows J C (Sgt), Wolfe (Sgt), Wood F (L/Cpl), Wood (Sgt), Wootton S (Sgt)
R O Y A L E N G I N E E R S :
23rd Fld Coy - Group of OR's – E 31342
54th Fld Coy – On Demolition work – E 902
- Constructing a pill-box at M Matruh – E 909
- At Mersa Matruh – E 968
512th Field Survey choir at Eisteddfor in Cairo – E 26075
512th Coy – Mapmaking at Abbassia – E 1307-1318
233rd Fld Coy – Carry out test explosion – E 9201-9202
870th Coy – Corporal constructing Chekka by pass – E 27059
9th Army testing Bren carrirer and jeeps – E 23431-35
29th Bomb Disposal Coy of R.E's in Syria – E 23416-25
169th Rly Workshops Co and 1012 Docks maintenance unit at work, 'No glamour for these men' – E 29422-44
190th Railway Operating Company in Iran – E 13004
Inland Water Transport RE -at Shatt el Arab – E 23765-88
Inland Water Transport RE – Ship repairs – E 23789-98
Exploding dud Italian shells – E 540-41
Work with Cypriot AMPC – E 643-644
Cement mixing plant – E 857
At work in Mersa Matruh – E 968
Sappers watch tanks pass over anti tank traps after immobilising them – E 1581-1582
Laying a minefield around Tobruk – E 1670
Outside Derma – E 1868-1870
Building a detour around a blown up bridge near Derma – E 1888
Repairing a blown up road – E 1906
Dug up Italian minefield, Derna – E 1920
Repairing a road during advance in Syria – E 3200-3201
Engineers at work – E 2385
Engineers building a bridge at Garissa – E 2402
Engineers at work in captured German tanks – E 2691-2695
Engineers building a bridge across River Euphrates – E 3310-3319
At work on defences of Tobruk – E 2891-2892
Exploding mines during exercise in W.D – E 6366
Draughtsman in Tobruk – E 6614
Sappers assisted by Italian settlers in Baracca – E 7411-12
Erect box girder bridge at Episkapi (Indian sappers) – E 9280, 9284
Salvaging a crashed German plane – E 10671-10676
R.E's via Palestine unit of Pioneer coorps in Tobruk, football – E 11440-11441
At work in a factory at Suey, manufacturing petrol tins – E 11485
At work in the WD – E 12766-12781
Sapper draws water for his unit – E 135287
Blow up food dumps during retreat from Lybia – E 13756-13757
Demolition work at Sollum during retreat – E 13813-13820
(Sick Parade) – E 1384
Sapper with pneumatic drill mining a road outside M. Matruh – E 14014-14015
11's of the 'March' Column – E 14040
German MK III Tank blown up at El Alamein – E 14906
Duke of Gloucester inspecting at Omdurman Barracks – E 15229-15231
(514 corps) H Mattocks names truck after his wife – E 15979
Use pneumatic drills preparing a gun emplacement – E 16079-16082
Minesweeping in the WD – E 16079-16082
Field Post Office at 8th army HQ – E 16851-57
Unloading cotton bales to be used instead of sandbags during an emergency in Cairo – E 16871-16875
Take cover while dynamiting a new gun pit – E 17364
Blowing up captured enemy ammunition in Alamein area – E 17533-17538
Road building in Persia – E 17044-17661
1st Armoured division inspected by Lt Gen Montgommery – E 17885-17897
In combined operations exercise – E 18076-18086
Patient in hospital does occupational therapy work – E 18430
Minesweeping in W des battle – E 18616-18617
Destroying enemy tanks – E 18787-18791
Clearing lanes through minefields – E 18799-18800
Destroying enemy tanks – 18834-18837
Engineers unloading barbed wire to mark off new minefield – E 18946
Blow up mark IV German tank – E 19109-19110
Demonstration of Royal Engineers at (Kabret?) combined training centre – E 19248-19256
Clearing enemy minefield – E 19302
Destroying enemy tanks – E 19381-84
Relaying water pipes in El Daba – E 19467
Repaired damaged road from Sollum – E 19716
Sweeping mines on way through (Cyrmirca?) Green Belt – E 19894-19896
Digging up mines on road leading to Barce – E 19902
Sapper Geoffrey D. Kirius, snake charmer – E 19975-19980
Truck waits while sappers dig up mine – E 20035
Men attaching long wire to suspected mine – E 20037
Sappers repairing railway line at Benghazi (Laibow?) – E 20058-20060
Sapper opens xmas parcel in desert – E 20264
Survey company deals with prints taken by Army Div Photo, luter Unit – E 20295-20325
Mines used by the enemy – E 20833-38
Royal Engineers making use of fresh water at Site – E 20881-2
Making the Army's maps – E 21222-46
At work on Libyan coast road, (de-mining, restoring, bridging etc) – E 21247-82
Boring for water in the desert – E 21483-92
Sappers mine sweeping on Buerat Road – E 21712-21713
Sappers repairing hole in road near Homs – E 21746-21747
Sappers repairing hole in road to Tripoli – E 21790-21791
Cleaning the (quays?) at Tripoli – E 21790-21791
Dock maintenance coys of RES deep sea diving – E 22343-4
Artillery cross into Tunisis, Royal Engineers clearing roadway in foreground – E 22440
British and South African Engineers give demonstration to senior officers – E 22508-20
Sapper sweeping back leading to Ben Gardane – E 22541
Royal Engineers repairing Tripolis railways – E 22610-26
Adjusting their snow plough in Pa'yi Taq Pass, Iran – E 22877
Cranes erected by Royal Engineers used for unloading ships on River Statt, El. Bab – E 23775-6
Royal Engineers in bridgeing exercise, Palestine – E 23849-38
Docks and L of C checking Co. Of Palestine help in transport of supplies to Russia – E 24551-24570
United nations parade, Cairo – E 25252
Docks operating company – E 25313-24
Invasion exercise – E 25313-24
British Royal Engineers dock crews at work at Port Tewfik – E 27953-4
Sgt R Hagel with his wife at XWCA hostel in Somalia – E 28598-614
Workshops Company supervises building of a (caique) – E 2922-9
Group of officers at a R.E Unit at Longmoor Comp, Suez – E 29235
Band playing in courtyard of military hospital in Jerusalem – E 29412-7
Lt R Tomlinson and Sgt G. Andrew discuss repairs etc in Larissa, Greece – E 29987
Capt Graham Perry sorting mail at Kapoeta – E 30236
Thousands of tons of stores at R.E dept in the Sudan – E 30381-83
King Farouk visits British Army Installations – E 30590-608
Motor cycle reliability trials in Cairo – E 30676-85
The sun doesn't always shine in the middle east – E 30698-702
R.E men win 2nd prize for a design of London airport – E 30909
Sgt J Cairns R.E draughtsman wins ME Poster competition – E 31110
Giving instruction to troops of a British Division in Palestine in various branches of the building trade to assist them in becoming fitted to take civilian jobs – E 31134-41
Group of officers – E 31347
Docks maintenance Unit inspected by Gen Paget – E 29854
Rly Repair workshops Coy inspected by Gen Paget – E 29861-62
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A R T I L L E R Y :
LIGHT ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENTS
1st LAA Rgt 1 Bty - Bofors guns - E 946-949
- Group of Officers - E 31352
- Group of OR's - E 31352
13th LAA Rgt 37 Bty - Outside Tobruk - E 1796
- E 31754-57
15th LAA Rgt 1 (Palestine) Bty - E 16144-79
- Guns - NA 15490
40th LAA Rgt - E 22436-38, 40
- E 22033
52nd LAA Rgt 154 Bty - E 1250-55
- At Eleusis - E 1247-49, 1256-61, 1465-70
56th LAA Rgt - Arriving in ME - E 14184-85
57th LAA Rgt - Bofors - E 14205-8
(? LAA Rgt) 149 Bty - Gnr names jeep after his sweetheart - E 15977
- In Cyprus, visited by Gnr Paget - E 27550-54
- E 19145-46
- E 8630-31
- E 9442
HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT REGIMENTS
51st HAA Rgt 151 Bty - Embark for time in Crete - E 1143-49, 1158-65, 1169-70, 1186-92
152 Bty - Tobruk - E 4944-4948
55th HAA Rgt 23 (Singapore) Bty - In action in Egypt - E (K) 2799
- 3.7" guns - E 954-958
(?th HAA Rgt) 16 Bty - 3.7" guns - E 954-958
20 Bty - 3" AA guns at Sallor aerodrome - E 1292-1306
- 4.5" guns, Cyprus - E 4724-32
- 3 " guns - E 939, 950-958
28 Bty - 3.7" static guns - E 290-300
ANTI-TANK REGIMENTS
23rd AT Rgt - Inspection by Gnr - E 9699-9701
79th AT Rgt - 6pdr guns in Geraise - E (K) 6686
84th AT Rgt - Visited by Lt. Gnr Holmes - E 23461
93rd AT Rgt - Group of OR's - E 31361
100th AT Rgt 300 Bty - A driver names truck after his wife - E 15976
COASTAL DEFENCE
(? CD Rgt) - Gnr Paget insects with Sgt A.P Hill at Tripoli - E 28083
SURVEY REGIMENTS
(? Survey Rgt) - SR in the field - E 15619-36
MEDIUM REGIMENTS
7th Med Rgt 26 Bty - E 522-534
27 Bty - 6" Howitzers prepare for attack - E 1735-43
- E 1041-1049
- 4.5" guns inspected by the Duke of Gloucester - E 11325-26
- E 1866-69, 1937-38, 2885, 7687
28th Med Rgt 27 Bty - man US 155mm Howitzer - E 13090-94
64th Med Rgt 211 Bty - Derna 1/2/41 - E 1828-1833
- E 14634-39
212 Bty - In action with 155mm Howitzer - E 14761-72
- At Lamia, Greece - E 2528-33
- In action - E 14676
- 4.5 gun in action - E 14957-58
- Inspected by the Premier - E 22250-51
- E 16950
- E 21783
- E 12678
68th Med Rgt - With 4.5 guns - E 14402-4
(? Med Rgt) - (Suffolk) - E 12924-27
- E 22538-943
FIELD REGIMENTS
2nd Fd Rgt - Group of Officers - E 31382
3rd Fd Rgt - Abadan, Persia - E 5307, 5313-15
8th Fd Rgt - E 2615-17
11th Fd Rgt 83/85 Bty - with 25pdrs at Alamein - E 14109-17
- OC, Lt. Col McCarthy with Gnr Auchinleck - E 13890
- Inspection by Gnr Auchinleck - E 9705
15th Med Rgt - Inspection by Gnr Auchinleck - E 9694
19th Med Rgt - Group of OR's - E 31349
- Group of officers - E 31382
25th Med Rgt - Major in charge of Italian prisoners; Gnr - escaped POW from Italy - E 1503, 4287
- pesonnel escape from Tobruk - E 13746
32nd Med Rgt - Inspection by Gbr Auchinleck
67th Med Rgt - Group of OR's - E 31293-94
- Group of officers - E 31382
72nd Med Rgt 285 Bty - E 5654-71
97th Med Rgt (Kent Yeomanry) - Officers with Auchinleck - E 9673
121st Med Rgt - Bishop SP 25 pdr - E 17430-36
- Bishop SP 25 pdr - E 19485
- Inspection by Auchinleck - E 9704
127th Med Rgt - E 22439
144th Med Rgt - E (K) 6699
154th Med Rgt (Leicester Yeomanry) - Training for mountain warfare - E 25015-30
COUNTER MORTAR REGIMENTS
30th CM Rgt - Group of Officers - E 31350
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY
1st RHA Rgt A Bty - OP tank 20/5/41 - E 3121
B Bty - In Tobruk, OP tank - E 5651-6587
- tank entering Merso Matruh - E 19321
E Bty - Priests firing in northern Syria - E 23449
- Inspection by Lt Gnr Anderson and Maj Gnr Norman in Palestine - E 26199-209
- BSM Henry recieving medal from Maj Gnr Gatehouse - E 17938
- E 23463
3rd RHA Rgt D Bty - with Anti-tank guns at Capuzzo - E 2565-67
- 25pdr guns at Capuzzo - E 2578
- 25pdrs in action at El Alamein - E 14063
- Inspection by the King, Tripoli - E 25430
4th RHA Rgt - "August Column" - E 14021-14023
- "March Column" - E 14028-14042
- Destroying enemy equipment - E 14484-90
- King with Colonel - E (NA) 3779
5th RHA Rgt - Inspection by the King, Tripoli - E 25430
9th RHA Rgt - 25pdrs - E 398-404
11th RHA Rgt A Bty - Priest guns - E 18870-73
- Priest guns - E 19106
B Bty - Priest guns - E 19020-22
E Bty - Priest guns - E 19481-83
- Maj Armstrong with Gnr Auchinleck - E 13878-13879
- Driver Charles Patrick recovered at Tobruk
14th RHA Rgt - OP vehicles, excercise in Syria - E 28572, 87, 92
- Maj L.C. Marson (portrait) E (K) 6709
104th RHA Rgt - At Tobruk - E 4823-4830
107th RHA Rgt 463 Bty - E 1066-1074)
(?th RHA Rgt) C Bty - In pursuit near Capuzzo - E (MH) 3827
- Officer at desert airport - E 14068
- Capt Maitland examines eggs - E 21012-3
- Find a water hole during an advance to Tripoli - E 21533-6
- E 25428
- E 19141-43
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A R M O U R E D R E G I M E N T S :
TANK DELIVERY REGIMENT, ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS (MEF)
? – E 22952-78
ROYAL TANK REGIMENT MISC
Matilda recovery from minefield, 8.42 – E 15174-83
Matildas South West of Gayala, 22.12.41 – E 7241-4
Matilda On transporter, 4.42 – E 10626-9
Matilda with Scots guards, 7.42 – E 13939-42
Matilda on transporter – E 8565-7
Matilda landing exercise – E 8172
Matilda, 6.42 – E 13098-9
Grant passing knocked out Italian tank – E 12919-20
Instruction on new American stuart tanks – E 3438-77
Walter Kirk at tactical school – E 3447-54
Men inspecting captured armoured car – E 3779-80
Advance in the Western Desert – E 6729-32
? – E 6736-8
?- E 6742-3
at mobile canteen, western desert – E 6776-7
a group of tank men- 7241
March past Nahas Pashu in Cairo on Empire Day – E 12486
Lt C. Pasdock convalescing after escaping ?Tunies from enemy – E 20106
PM Churchill inspecting ranks during Tripoli visit – E 22275-8
Wounded men removed from tank by RAMC – E 18566-8
Clearing tracks of crusaders E 18688, -90
Shermans with drivers – E 1865-6
With airman who walked back from Tobruk – E 16340
L/cpl Gunn MM firing at an enemy Me109 from his tank – E 16396
With newly arrived American tanks and Pte ?Lewfiln – E 16612
A wren waves to Tank men as they move off – E 16621
Tank man receives radio picture of wife and new babe – E 7880-17882
Tank men use Australian YMCA – E 17231-3, -39
Sherman crew with little girl – E 17853-8Tank men direct FF Flying Column – E 17107-8, 17118-9
Sgt Richardson writing airgraph in western desert – E 18359
Tpr J. R. Jones writing airgraph in western desert – E 18364
Man looks at signs on Deina road – E 19967
'B' Sqn tank crew and infantry of 51st Div 8th Armoured – E 17624
A tank man pays a visit to naval signallers in western desert – E 14547
Tank crews of 22nd Bde before and after action – E 14947-50
Valentine repair at Lel-el-Eissa – E 15023-5, 15076
American and British tank crews in the desert – E 15584-618
PM Churchill with tankmen in Western Desert – E 15890
With tankmen in Western Desert – E 16128-36
American tank instructors with British crews in North East – E 12539, -42-50
Tank crews with German equipment – E 12878-9
Rum ration arrives during battle – E 13268
Captured swastika flag – E 13269
Approach burning enemy tank – E 13338-13341
Tank crews – E 13493-5
Capt Munclay in Western Desert – E 13355-6
Tank officers and crews in Western Desert – E 13548, -50-3
RTR of 4th Armoured Bde and American tanks – E 13520-3
Knocked out valentine – E 7002
Valentine stuck in sand – E 24562-6
Christmas as celebrated by armoured car crew – E 20244-55
1st ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Light Cruiser tanks at Tobruk – E 6793, 6802-3, -5, 6849, 6850
Cruiser tanks at Abbassia District – E 95-104
In desert tactical demonstrations – E E110-9
In action and on patrol in desert – E 435-445
'A' Sqn in Mersa Matruk – E 991-3
Manning captured German tanks – E 2676, -8-9
In Tobruk – E 5537-40, 5542-8
'C' Sqn, ?Magor Benzie – E 6806
Grant passing knocked out German tank – E 12919-20
(Or 5th RTR) Grants of 22nd Armoured Bde moving up – E 14911
3rd ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Tanks in desert – E 21500-3
Tanks with war correspondents – E 21796
'C' Sqn crews buy fruit from Arabo – E 21825-6
RHQ tank crew with panzer ?directional sign – E 19350
Off-duty armoured car crew – E 20244-55
Sherman tank crew – E 21326-30
Resting after battle – E 8574-87
Stuart towing tank – E 14119
PM Churchill visits tanks units at Lel-el-Kebir – E 15384
Tank under repair ('C' Sqn) – E 13238-42
Camouflage of Grant tank – E 13376-83
Tanks of 8th Armoured Bde on flooded road – E 19231
4th ROYAK TANK REGIMENT
In Tobruk before the battle – E 6850-9
In Tobruk 4th day of battle, repairs, maintenance etc. – E 6864-70
32nd Army Tank Bde (with 1st/4th RTR) from Tobruk meets up with New Zealanders at Dudu - 6893-6921
'B' Sqn tank entering Massaw, Eritrea, 4.41 – E 2924E
Matildas in Western Desert, on transporter, on patrol, in tank pit, 13.6.41 – E 3523-34
Demonstration of mine lifting; tank maintenance; hair cut in Tobruk, 18.11.41 – E 6584-6, -88-92
Lt Col W. C. L. O'Carroll; tank repair shop; tank crew; Matildas on patrol outside Tobruk, 18.11.41 – E 6593-6611
CO and officers in Tobruk, 18.11.41 – E 6615-6
Tanks and crews before moving off, Tobruk, 18.11.41 – E 6801, -4
CO's car and tank during battle, 28.11.41 – E 6839, -44
Tanks and KDG armoured cars preparing for the attack from Tobruk, 29.11.41 – E 6857-9
Tank repair shop, Tobruk, 1.12.41 – E 6865
Damaged tank on transporter, Tobruk, 1.12.41 – E 6866
Lt Col O'Carroll giving orders, Tobruk, 1.12.41 – E 6868
Tanks moving into action for the break-out, 1.12.41 – E 6878-84, -86
Link-up between Tobruk garrison and relieving force, groups including Lt Col O'Carroll, Capt Humphreys, Maj Holden, officers of 32 Army Tank Bde, 1st RTR, 44th RTR and 19th New Zealand Infantry Bn, 2.12.41 - E 6898-6900
Scenes during link-up with New Zealand forces round Tobruk, 2.12.41 – E 6901, -3-4, -6, -16-21
Damaged tanks at Tobruk, 8.12.41 – E 6988-6991
Knocked out Matilda, Tobruk, 15.12.41 – E 7070
Matilda knocked out South of Gazala, Western Desert, 22.12.41 – E 7279
Capt "Pip" Gardner VC, 3.1.42 – E 7479
Destroyed captured Matilda, 3.1.42 – E 7482
Damaged Matilda on transporter, Western Desert, 4.6.42 – E 12856
5th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Tank aiding truck – E 20485-6
Crusader and crew – E 20823-32
Inspected by US generals – E 20701-2
Lt Col Uniaske CO with Brig Gatehurst – E 8461
AFPU visit – E 11093-96
Crews of Grants in Western Desert – E 13258-13262
Stuart of HQ 'A' Sqn
6th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Montgomery with tank crew ('B' Sqn) that gave him his beret – E 19096-8
(or 8th RTR) British push to Hagaig and Rigel escarpments – E 13532, -43
'C' Sqn at Bir Sofafi. Officers and men; tank maintenance, 26.7.40 – E 382-7
Visit by Mr Eden in Western Desert, 27.10.40 – E 898
Knocked out 'B' Sqn cruiser at Fort Gallabat, Sudan, 22.11.40 – E 1231
Tanks passing damaged Italian aircraft at El Adem aerodrome, Western Desert, 14.1.41 – E 1663-4
Cruiser tanks in Tobruk repair shop, 18.11.41 – E 6595-6
Grants going into action; ammunitioning; on transporters , 4.6.42 – E 12859-64
Grants and Stuarts prior to attack on Rigel and Hagiag, 18.6.42 – E 13532-7, -39, -43
Visit by Mr Wendell Wilkie, Western Desert, 7.9.42 – E 16539
Montgomery taking tea with 'B' Sqn tank crew (Tank protective detachment, 8th Army HQ), 6.11.42 – E 19096-8
7th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Officers and tank crews; Matildas on patrol; destroyed and captured Italian equipment, Western Desert, 19.12.40 – E 1403-20
Skull Emblem painted on Matilda, Western Desert, 23.12.40 – E 1446
Matilda moving up; damaged Matilda; Matilda being towed by Scammell, Bardia Area, 31.12.40 – E 1497-8, 1503-5
Matildas supporting attack by Australians, Bardia, 6.1.41 – E 1574, 1586
Tanks passing Italian POW in town; tank flying captured Italian flag; tank with carrier before attck, Tobruk, 24.1.41 – E 1750, 1772, 1800
Portraits of tank crews; Matilda tank, Tobruk, 8.5.41 – E 2854-67
Tanks lined up; on patrol with Tobruk defensive perimeter, 12.9.41 – E 5541, -9, 5550-9
Bomb exploded to make tank pit for Matilda, Tobruk, 15.10.41 – E 6022-3, 6025-6
Matilda on patrol, Tobruk, 28.11.41 – E 6848
Tanks on "Axis Highway", Tobruk, 2.12.41 – E 6909
Breaking up enemy aircraft at El Adem aerodrome, 20.12.41 – E 7176-9
"Axis Highway" rechristened "Democracy Lane" by tank crew; damaged tank among buildings, El Adem, 21.12.41, E 7212, -15-6
Damaged Matildas, Western Desert – E 2597-2610
8th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Valentines – E 7451-5
Valentine on transporter – E 12293
Valentine near Deir el Ragil – E 13538, -42
40th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
(or 23 Armoured Bde) entry into and in Tripoli – E 21591-21638, 21780
? – E 21885
Tpr Stenbrook names jeep after his wife – E 15978
Men on lorry – E 15981
Tanks arriving in at Port Tewfik – E 14130
41th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Matilda scorpion in transporter; flailing – E 21707-21713
Shermans on Myiterya Ridge – E 18537
Matilda scorpions in desert – E 18864-8, 19019
Knocked out Churchill, one of 6 on trial at El Alamein – E 18830-1, -9, 19100-5, -8
Churchills on the move – E 18988-91
Sherman tank crews resting – E 18875-80
With Grant and Stuart tanks – E 9882-9936
(Or 44th RTR) Matilda Scorpion on transporter at Buerat, 21.7.43 – E 21707
RHQ tanks crossing Tunisian border – E 22540
42nd ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
? - E3716, -30, -84-5, 3870, -96
Officers of 7 Indian Infantry Bde with Matilda during attack on Sidi Omar, 24.11.41 – E 3716, 3730
Indian infantry with Matilda crews after capture of Libyan Omar – E 3784-5
Matilda moving up with Indian troops – E 3870
Matilda tank at El Adem aerodrome – E 3896
44th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Tank crew in the desert – E 9750-9772
Unloading new Valentine tanks – E 14055-8
Diamond T recovers Valentine in salt marsh near Tel-el-Eissa, 24.7.42 – E 14812-36
Maj Gibbon with Brig Willison etc – E 6898
Matildas, Western Desert – E 6903-4
Maj Gibbon and Lt Col O'Carroll (4th RTR), 26.11.41 – E 6906
Lt Col Yeo and Lt Col O'Carroll (4th RTR) – E 6907
Matilda and New Zealand infantry - E 6918
Matildas – E 9557-67
Valentine tank crew – E 9750-73
Valentine; Lt Col C. R. Reynolds (CO Jan-June '42) – E 12699-700
Visit by AFPU – E 11076
Sgt Bordis' tank – E 9750
Matilda Scorpions of 'C' Sqn, Western Desert, 2.11.42 – E 18864-68
Matilda Scorpion of 'C' Sqn, Western Desert, 5.11.42 – E 19019
Scorpion on transporter in Buerat, 27.1.43 – E 21707
? – E 16220-39
? – E 13538, -42
45th ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
Men arriving from Blighty – E 14182
1st HOUSEHOLD CAVALRY REGIMENT
Mounted patrols; training; RHQ, Tul Karm, Palestine, 22.9.40 – E 594-604
Italians surrender to armoured car, 11.11.42 – E 19374, 19480
10th Armoured Div procession through Aleppo, Syria, 5.4.43 – E 23464
20.4.43 – E 23864
1st KING'S DRAGOON GUARDS
'C' Sqn in Tobruk, Maintenance on armoured cars – E2869-74
? – E 18358
'C' Sqn in Tobruk, dug in armoured cars and on patrol – E 5107, 5507-10, 5515, 5566
'C' Sqn patrol at Tobruk during break-out – E 6858, 6819-20, 6859
'C' Sqn armoured cars outside Tobruk – E 6875-7, -96
Car passing burnt enemy vehicle – E 6911
Car with prisoners captured by Poles, Tobruk – E 7069
Car destroyed by enemy mine – E 7623, -28-30
Armoured car in Damascus during riots – E 31005
Lt Col E. T. Williams, GSO to Montgomery – E 20998
In review at Tripoli – E 22288, -92
THE QUEEN'S BAYS (2nd DRAGOON GUARDS)
Man having hair cut , 21.2.42 – E 8621
Church service, Western Desert, 6.3.42 – E 9097-99
Inspection by the Duke of Gloucester, 8.5.42 – E 11508
'C' Sqn Grants moving into action, 8.6.42 – E 13016-18
Yugoslav POW coming in on scout car, 28.10.42 – E 18623-33
Grave of a tank crew beside a knocked out Sherman, 2.11.42 – E 18838
Crusaders, 29.10.42 – E 18838
Re-ammuntioning a Sherman, Western Desert, 5.11.42 – E 18993-4
? – E 19107
? – E 16625-34
? – E 12849
1st THE ROYAL DRAGOONS
Armoured cars on patrol, Western Desert, 19.5.41 – E 3081-7
Armoured cars on Damascus Road, Syria, 21.6.41 – E 3676-79
Armoured cars in Aleppo and on patrol on the Turkish frontier; men with Turkish soldiers, 22.7.41 – E 4408-28
Cars in Aleppo and on patrol near the Turkish frontier, 2.8.41 – E 4560, 4570-3
Armoured car in Benghazi, 24.12.41 – E 4000E
Lt Col A. Pepys (Royals) and Lt Col McCorquodale (KDG) with Mayor of Benghazi, 3.1.42 – E 7474
Montgomery with officers of the Royals, 11th Hussars and 22nd Armoured Bde examining captured shells, 6.9.42 – E 16523
Crew of armoured car reading "Eight Army News", 25.9.42 – E 17416
THE ROYAL SCOTS GREYS (2nd DRAGOONS)
Men in trench; Sgt Major with dog mascot, Syria, 21.6.41 – E 3672-7
Officers with Gen Auchinleck during inspection of 10th Armoured Div, 18.4.42 – E 10770-1
'C' Sqn Grant re-ammunitioning, 6.42 – E 13266
Grant tanks moving up near Alamein, 17.7.42 – E 14550-2
Grant engine removed for overhaul, 25.8.42 – E 16084-7
Stuart refuelling from RAF bowser outside Sidi Barrani, 15.11.42 – E – 19586-7
Grave beside tank of Lt M. L. Bodley, killed in Nufilia battle, 26.12.42 – E 20508
Cpl Bill Kennedy RSG on SAS patrol, 18.1.42 – E 21342
3rd KING'S OWN HUSSARS
Groups of officers and men; camouflaging a light tank, 1.11.40 – E 995-7
Knocked out light tanks in the salt marsh at Buq Buq; grave of Lt M. Hartigan, 4.1.41 – E 1556-8, 1562
? – E 3119-20
Light tanks in exercise, Cyprus, 5.1.41 – E 6316-18, 6324
Pigs and Turkeys for Christmas dinner, Cyprus, 5.11.41 – E 6325-33
Visit by GOC 9th Army to 10th Armoured Division, Lt Col Sir P.W. Farquhar explaining demonstration; Crusaders in Aleppo, Syria, 5.4.43 – E 23450, 23462
Cpl W. King; L/Cpl G.H. Scott, Palestine, 25.10.43 – E 4290E-91E
Tanks reviewed by Lt Gen Anderson, Palestine, 30.10.43 – E 26205-8
Armoured cars on guard during Tel Aviv unrest, 16.11.45 – E 31467
Armoured cars help comb out Tel Aviv terrorists, 30.7.46 – E 31976, -81-2
Armoured cars on road checks of Jews after Jaffa bank robbery, 20.9.46 – E 32076-7
4th HUSSARS (QUEEN'S OWN)
With Lee tanks at El Alamein – E 14050
'B' Sqn on patrol with Honey tanks – E 15489
Visited by PM Churchill in Western Desert with 3rd County of London Yeomanry - E 15886, 15900-1
PM Churchill reviews his old regiment in Cyprus – E 22006
Inspected by Lt Gen Hughes in Cyprus – E 22760-3
With 8th Hussars march past on Red Army Day in Cyprus – E 22768
Mr Eden listens to tank men talk over radio – E 26155
Inspected by PM Churchill in North Africa – E 26681-9
Tank crew have Christmas pudding – E 20411-3
Men firing Spandau – E 12297
Tanks near ?Mt. Hineimat, 26.8.42 – E 16095-7
7th QUEEN'S OWN HUSSARS
Visit by Mr Eden in Western Desert, 27.10.40 – E 899-901
Light tanks on patrol; bivouacs; officers and men, Tobruk, 23.1.41 – E 1744-9
Tank crew washing; tank maintenance, Capuzzo, 21.4.41 – E 2572, -77
Band men and equipment, Middle East, 10.11.44 – E 30060-7
Captured German 8 wheeled armoured car, 11.41 – E 6710-7
2nd ROYAL GLOUCESTERSHIRE HUSSARS
A 'G' Sqn Crusader tank receiving gift boxes, 5.6.42 – E 12907-8
Tank crew making a pie, Western Desert, 20.9.42 – E 17100-5
Men receiving comforts sent from home, 22.1.43 – E 21454-55
Tanks and crew, 26.11.41 – E 6724-6, -29-31
? – E 6751-2
8th HUSSARS (KING'S ROYAL IRISH)
A day in Egypt – E 136-153
Christmas day overcooking Bardia – E 1499-1502
Try-out of new American tanks – E 3466-77, 5061-87
Maj Hackett (DSO) decorated by Duke of Gloucester – E 14689
Lt Gen Hughes inspects them at Cyprus – E 22756-8
With 4th Hussars march past on Red Army day in Cyprus – E 22768
? – E 1982-3
Visit by Duke of Gloucester – E 11318-22
? – E 19935-6
'C' Sqn – E 6287-94
Knocked out 'B' Sqn Stuart – E 7044
St Patrick's Day, 1941 – E 2246-63
9th QUEEN'S ROYAL LANCERS
Recovery of Lee tank – E 13079-88
Man writing letter – E 18365
Shermans in Western Desert – E 18376-81
Shermans and Crusaders in Western Desert – E 18969-75
Crusaders entering Tashuma – E 21567
? – E 18882
? – E 19355-86
? – E 18993
10th ROYAL HUSSARS (PRINCE OF WALES'S OWN)
Capt Grant Singer who captured Gen von Thomas – E 19134-5
Inspected by Duke of Gloucester – E 11950-1
Lt Col with Montgomery – E 17960-3
Tank crew 'A' Sqn at bivouac in desert – E 9785-92
Gen Gott visits – E 9793-5
Tanks on transporters – recovery of 'ditched' transporters – E 9861-77
Damaged crusader – E 14952-3
Released POW – E 7762-3
? – E 8069-78
? – E 6724-9
Tank crew with a tortoise – E 10610-12
Tank crew – E 12858
Tank crew with 'thanks for tanks' poster – E 10124-5
Officer – E 12262
Tpr E.S. Brooks ('A' Sqn) – E 18364
11th HUSSARS (PRINCE ALBERTS OWN)
Armoured cars passing Italian barbed wire at Sidi Omar – E 377-8
Officers and crews at Bir Sheifergen – E 379-81
With captured Italian gun at Musaid – E 388-9
Towing a captured Italian tank at Sidi Omar – E 393-408
Rolls Royce armoured car – E 1535
First cars to enter Tripoli – E 22041
Inspection by PM Churchill at Tripoli – E 22243-4
Inspection by Montgomery – E 23803-5
Personnel during rest period in Cairo, 21.4.41 – E 2580-95
Desert patrol by armoured cars – E 3081-7
Armoured cars lined up ay Tripoli parade – E 22288
With Montgomery and other officers of 22 armoured Bde inspecting shells – E 16523
Armoured cars in desert – E 21519
? – E 21452
Humber armoured cars – E 21519
12th ROYAL LANCERS (PRINCE OF WALES'S)
Armoured cars near New Zealanders' positions South of Alamein – E 14640
Armoured cars on patrol – E 15418, -85, -88
Officers giving orders for special patrol – E 15495-6
Regimental flag and badge in desert – E 17897
Col Kidston OC going to action – E 21751
In Baghdad with geese at Christmas – E 22898-900
Armoured car crew with arabs – E 22548-50
Officer showing position to Montgomery – E 21450-1
? – E 19841-4
Inspection by Montgomery and officers – E 17885-7, -95
Officers with Montgomery – E 17960-4
14th/20th KING'S HUSSARS
Tanks passing withdrawing Iranian Army after 1941 Armistice, Kermanshah road – E 3621E, -28-39E
Light tanks passing through Kermanshah, 1941 – E 3631E, -35E
Patrol by light tanks of 'C' Sqn, Iraq, 25.4.42 – E 10991-11010
Indian-type wheeled carriers, Iraq, 25.4.42 – E 11011-6
Instruction on Stuart tank, Iraq, 25.4.42 – E 11017-21
Tanks and scout cars in manoeuvres of 31 Indian armoured Div, Syria, 30.5.44 – E 28572, -80, -85-7, -91, -93-4
CHESHIRE YEOMANRY
With horses, training; the band; groups of officers and men, Acrek, 3.7.40 – E 313-24
Officers and men, Syria – 16.6.41 – E 3547-50
On patrol by the Litani river, 16.6.41 – E 3593-5
Cavalry patrol, Syria, 18.6.41 – E 3622-3
At frontier post, Syria, 1.7.41 – E 3916
Guard of Honour for Gen Sir H.M Wilson at Beirut, 18.7.41 – E 4263, -5
2nd DERBYSHIRE YEOMANRY
Armoured car escort to Montgomery in Tripoli – E 21969, 22038
Armoured cars prepare for arrival of PM Churchill at Tripoli airfield – E 22242
Armoured cars arriving at ME port – E 14121-9
? – E 21599
ESSEX YEOMANRY
104 RHA at Tobruk – E 4823-30
FIFE AND FORFAR YEOMANRY
Officer inspecting knocked out German Mk IV tank – E 16574-5
EAST KENT YEOMANRY
? – E 20552
LEICESTERSHIRE YEOMANRY (154 FIELD REGIMENT ROYAL ARTILLERY)
Train for mountain warfare – E 25015-30
3rd COUNTY OF LONDON YEOMANRY
Inspection by PM Churchill in Western Desert, 23.8.42 – E 15916
Crews recording broadcast messages, 12.6.42 – E13342-54
'C' Sqn crew brewing up – E 13548
Tanks in desert, 26.8.42 – E 16131-4
With US crews, 13.8.42 – E 15589-96, -604-16
Crew of 22 Armoured Bde, 20.9.42 – E 17100-6
Stuart tanks, 28.7.42 – E 14947
4th COUNTY OF LONDON YEOMANRY
Tanks on patrol, in leagues etc., 28.8.42 – E 16260-80
'A' and 'B' Sqn re-ammunitioning etc., 18.6.42 – 13545, -49-53, -60-2
Instruction on Grant tank, 9.9.42 – E 16625-34
Checking tank compass, 26.8.42 – E 16128-30, -32-4
With US crews, 13.8.42 – E 15584-8, -597-603
Crusader and Grant tanks, 28.7.42 – E 14948-50
Crusader tanks – E 18639-45
Line main street in Tripoli as PM Churchill drives past – E 22280
2nd LOTHIAN AND BORDER YEOMANRY
Turkish military mission inspecting tank – E 23722-3
MIDDLESEX YEOMANRY (ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS)
At HQ 4th armoured Bde in desert, cooking meal – E 17101-4
NORTHUMBERLAND HUSSARS
Ramming light A/A gun during Stuka attack – E 12931
SOUTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE YEOMANRY
'C' troops, 436 Bty, 107th Regt RHA – E 1066-74
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE YEOMANRY
Officers and men receiving medals from Maj Gen Gatehouse – E 17935-6, -39-40
Montgomery talks to NCOs and men – E 20614-5
Tpr Fres Lee visited by Mr Eden – E 26162-4
Lt Col Kellett MP receives DSO – E 20607
Tank crew, RHQ, refuelling, eating, "Robin Hood II" – E 21505-6
Inspection by PM Churchill – E 15381-2
Truck of RHQ crossing Tunisian border – E 22540
'C' Bty manning 5.9" gun in Tobruk – E 5109-16
? – E 17616-7
? – E 19325
STAFFORDSHIRE YEOMANRY (QUEEN'S OWN ROYAL REGT)
Officers and men receiving medals from Maj Gen Gatehouse – E 17937
A day in Western Desert with maintenance, training etc. – E 18393-407
Sherman crew during Tripoli advance – E 21531
Arab girl listens in to radio of tank – E 21556-61
Grants enter Tarhunah, Libya – E 21568
Mr Eden visits in ME – E 2162-4
Visit by PM Churchill – E 15379-80
? – E 18477-81
Red X scout car – E 21550
Inspection by PM Churchill – E 15379-80
Tpr R. Taylor, tank crew man, repairing watch – E 20616-8
Montgomery standing on command tank "Defiance" – E 20606
Tanks on flooded road – E 19230
A group of regimental fitters – E 21576
Recovery and repair of 'B' Sqn Grant – E 21396-418
Men with US instructors – E 12539-59
Tanks halted in desert – E 18529
Tanks – E 21797
? – E 16709-12
WARWICKSHIRE YEOMANRY (HUSSARS)
'B' Sqn mounted patrols at Rosh Punriq – E 301-12
Demonstration explained by Lt Col Jackson to Maj Gen Buik with Lt Gen Holmes – E 23458
Inspection by Lt Gen Anderson and Maj Gen Norman – E 26199-209
Infantry riding on Sherman, Nufilia battle, 26.12.42 – E 20505
Members of crew of above tank listen to King's Christmas broadcast – E 20668-9
Members of above crew celebrate Christmas – E 20569-71
Men with US instructors – E 12539-59
ROYAL WILTSHIRE YEOMANRY (PRINCE WALES'S OWN)
'C' Sqn A/A Bty – E 1050-60
Alexander with Pet Goat – E 4335E
Tank gunners inspected by Lt Gen Holmes – E 23451-2
Inspected Lt Gen Anderson and Maj Gen Norman in Palestine – E 26199-209
Guard of Honour for Gens Wilson and Catraux in Beirut – E 4263-5
Sherman tanks – E 19355
THE YORKSHIRE DRAGOONS
Group of officers, Western Desert, 6.11.42 – E 19082
THE YORKSHIRE HUSSARS
The horse lines at Geneifa, outside Jerusalem, 26.10.40 – E 1039
Valentine and cruiser tanks on exercises in Cyprus, 5.42 – E 11381-90
Visit by Mr Eden, Middle East, 15.10.43 – E 26151-54, -59
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I N F A N T R Y R E G I M E N T S :
ARGYLL AND SOUTHERN HIGHLANDERS
Rounding up stray mules at Elan Eldas – E 1500E
Entertaining AIF photo unit – E 1533E
Gen inspecting those who took part in capture of Gondar – E 3841E
In Gondar – E 3850E
Band passing saluting base during king's birthday celebrations in Cairo – E 13294
PM Churchill visits 51st Highland Div – E 15975
Men with Christmas mail and parcels – E 20577-8
Montgomery with 1st Bn pln, part of HQ protecting force – E 20709
Personnel filing into St Andrews Church of Scotland service – E 25615-21
1st Bn mounted guard at Mena House, Cairo – E 26691-701
Message from Gen Montgomery being read near Zliten, Libya – E 21743
BLACK WATCH (ROYAL HIGHLAND REGT)
PM Churchill visits 51st Highland Div – (in series) E 15972-5
In western Desert battle – E 18630-1
With German POW captured in desert – E 18691-4
Working with Middlesex Regt in Western Desert – E 18943-4
Memorial at St Andrew's Church, Jerusalem – E 18959
Maj Gunter visits St Andrew's Church – E 18962
Enters Mersa Brega – E 20386-92
Jocks on wrecked schooner in Mersa Brega, dancing reels etc. – E 20574-6
Entertained by Balmoral concert party in Tripolitania – E 20839-41
Cpl McDiamid, Desert Rat of the SAS – E 21348
L/Cpl Richardson, accordionist of the "Balmorals" – E 22227
Pte Millar, electrician of the "Balmorals" – E 22230
Pte R. Cruikshank, outside church at Abbassia, Cairo – E 29376
BEDFORSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIRE REGIMENT
Inspection by Mr Eden outside Jerusalem – E 799-800
BORDER REGIMENT
Dinner at Grand Hotel, Cairo – E 31384-6
THE BUFFS (ROYAL EAST KENT REGT)
1st Bn men take rest on knocked out Italian tank – E 19009
1st Bn Capt the Rev C.W.K. Potts preaching to men on Christmas Day – E 20676-8
? – E 16591
? – E 10590
CAMERON HIGHLANDERS (QUEEN'S OWN)
Training in Egypt – E 120-35
Company Office in Western Desert – E 727
Mr Eden inspecting troops in the desert – E 881
Pte McConaghy have wound dressed – E 8315
Six Camerons who escaped Tobruk – E 13741-5
5th Bn inspection by PM Churchill – E 15960-1, -75
Training with Highland Div in Western Desert – E 17621-34
Piper leaving comrades along road near Agheila – E 20355-7
5th Bn Christmas in the desert – E 20598-604
Piper and drummer head Jewish troops' parade in Tripoli – E 22055
L/Cpl Bill McLellan, pianist of the "Balmorals'" concert party – E 22223
L/Cpl E. Fraser escaped POW from Italy – E 4287E
Italians surrendering, Alamein – E 18996-7
CAMERONIANS (SCOTTISH RIFLES)
2nd Bn pipe and drum band in Middle East – E 30098-30103
COLDSTREAM GUARDS
3rd Bn near Salum – E 535-9
3rd Bn at mersa Matruk – E 635-42
Inspection by Mr Eden in desert – E 875
3rd Bn newcomers in Western Desert – E 738-42
3rd Bn at Mersa Matruk – E 851-6
Guard of Honour for HRH El Emir Mansorr ('Ibn Saud') – E 9465
Brig directing operations before fall of Tobruk – E 13786
Maj Earl Jellicoe's wedding to miss P O'Kayne – E 27820
3rd Bn at Soelum – E 2546-62
DUKE OF CORNWALL'S LIGHT INFANTRY
In the Sudan – E 30385-91
60th Anniversary Memorial Sunday – E 30559
Inspection by Auchinleck (10th Army) – E 9681
DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY
Mr Eden inspecting troops in the desert – E 879
1st Bn in Western Desert, 30.10.40 – E 913-28
1st Bn in Bn HQ at Mersa Matruk – E 978
'Geordies' wiring defences at Mersa Matruk – E 965-6
Laying defences in Western Desert – E 2624-7
9th Bn in Cyprus – E 4714-23
8th Bn in Cyprus – E 4733-46
L/Cpl Cairns, artist in the West Desert – E 10986-10990
Arrive in Tobruk area – return of 50th Div – E 12965, 13572
8th Bn men in truck – E 13574
Return of 50th Div – E 13584, -89-90
Mr Jack Lawson MP talking to men – E 21473-4
Men going aboard Z Craft – E 25671
1st Bn 'Salute the Soldier' campaign – E 27654-75
Grave of Pte Wakenhaus – E 30354-5
EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
Duke of Gloucester inspects a front line position of 5th Bn – E 11327
Sir Ronald Storrs talking to men – E 21456-7
Shell bursts in front of Bren carrier – E 16094
ESSEX REGIMENT
1st Bn capture of Fort Gallabat – E 1227-46
In Tobruk – E 6497
At Duda – E 7084
1st/5th Bn men in Middle East – E 11045-9
Duke of Gloucester inspects men at Karkur Camp – E 12459
19th Bn inspected by Gen Paget at Khartoum – E 27464-5, -84
1st Bn capture of Palinyra – E 4081-97
2nd/5th Bn inspected by Auchinleck – E 9723-4
GORDON HIGHLANDERS
PM visits 51st Highland Div – E 15975
On tanks ready to go into action near Homs during advance on Tripoli – E 21749-50
Piper Ramsey pipes Valentine tanks through Tripoli streets – E 21591-3
Gordons marching into Tripoli, piped in by maj and drum maj – E 21608
Rev J.C. Gunn with other padres in desert – E 21918
Montgomery chats with pipe maj Anderson in Tripoli – E 21979
Pte Wood, stage manager of the "Balmorals" – E 22231
5th/7th Bn crossing into Tunisia – E 22429-34, -442
Look at downed Me 109 – E 22641-4
Band of the London South strikes up as POW are repatriated – E 28630
Pipe band at King's birthday march past at Cairo – E 28666
Pte A. Ewan outside church at Albassia, Cairo – E 29396
6th Bn pipe band – E 31288
6th Bn pipe band who have been decorated – E 31289
6th Bn Brig R.M. Anderson inspects mobile column – E 31292, -95-6
GREEN HOWARDS (ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS OF WALES'S OWN)
In paratroop exercises, Cyprus – E 5635-53
C in C visit KRR Bn – E 9140
In Middle East – E 11057
Return of 50th Div – E 13599
GRENADIER GUARDS
3rd Bn visited by Lord Gort in Palestine – E 31394-402
ROYAL HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
1st Bn digging trenches – E 859
1st Bn at Mersa Matruk – E 905-8, 910-12
HERTFORSDHIRE REGIMENT
1st Bn officers with 1st Div units – E 31363
HIGHLAND INFANTRY
22nd Bde at Mersa Matruk – E 90-4
Col reads orders to drivers of carrier pln – E 12949
In the battle "Cauldron", 6.42 – E 13118-26
Piper in Western Desert – E 13492
Band playing at the citadel in Cairo – E 20776
Gen Dempsey presents colours to HLI – E 32031-9
ROYAL INNISKILLING FUSILIERS
10th Bn inspection by Duke of Gloucester in Western Desert – E 11509
2nd Bn with the Paiforce in Iran – E 22883-96
Fus N. Smith outside Church, Abbassia, Cairo – E 29376
ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS
Pipe their way into Rome – E 29355-69
KING'S OWN ROYAL REGIMENT (LANCASTER)
In training at ?Heloman – E 232-46
2nd Bn in Western Desert – E 974-5
2nd Bn outside Tobruk HQ – E 6483-4, 6441-61
Men guard against aircraft on Fort of Acroma – E 7114
Search a Beduin and his camel – E 7115
Men in a captured enemy position – E 7066
1st Bn in training – E 25031-8
"Exercise Crocodile" – E 27562-5
KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS
2nd Bn in the Western Desert – E 929-38, 940-5
Attacking Tobruk – E 1669, -71
1st Bn visited by Gen Auckinleck – E 9140-51
Rhodesians in training attached to KRRC – E 11665-712
King George of the Hellenes visits – E 11851-2
Rhodesian PM with KRRC at Geneifa IFT depot – E 23174-5
2nd Bn escapees from Italy Lt Col Wood and Maj Vernon – E 26176
1st Bn carriers at fort Capuzzo – E 1433-4
1st Bn Carriers and transport on road – E 1682-7
Carriers in advance to Tripoli – E 20910, 21863
1st/2nd Bn carriers near ?Hams – E 21759
11th Bn bridging exercise in Palestine, 20.4.43 – E 23861-2
LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
Lt N.C. Johnson escaped from an Italian POW camp – E 42863, ?-88E
King's Birthday Parade, Palestine – E 31073
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
On the move – E 969
2nd Bn in Tobruk – E 6435-40, -62-4
Sgt Stan ?Aigyle with regt tattoo on chest – E 20925-6
2nd/5th Bn in Middle East – E 27775-95
On manoeuvres in Syria – E 28581-5, -90
Landing exercises – (in series) E 4590-4626
Lt Col – E 4596
LONDON IRISH RIFLES
Pipes playing at Empire Day celebrations, Alamein Club, Cairo – E 28523
LONDON SCOTTISH
1st inspected by the War Minister – E 25491-2
LOYAL REGIMENT
1st Bn officers – E 31358
MANCHESTER REGIMENT
Infantry men – E 27587-9
MIDDLESEX REGIMENT
Working in cooperation with Black Watch in Western Desert – E 18943-8, -54
2nd/7th Bn officers – E 31344-5
Lt Gen Sir Alan Cunnigham chatting with officers at al-Gwat-Glga Coastguard Stn – E 31507
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT
2nd Bn march past in Tehran – E 21171-3
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT
2nd Bn men – E 31290-1
ROYAL NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS
Machine gunners – E 7080-1
Lunching with an officer – E 7085
Capt Lloyd MC who showed great courage in holding El Duda – E 7470
1st Bn at St George's Day celebration in Cairo – E 11022-44
Machine ginner in exercise "Crocodile" – E 27591-4
OXFORDSHIRE AND BUCKS LIGHT INFANTRY
Passing saluting base during King's Birthday march past at Cairo – E 28658
Gen Paget visits the old Regiment – E 28726-30
C in C visits in Palestine – E 31578-92
2nd Bn 'A' Coy men – E 31542
QUEEN'S ROYAL REGIMENT (WEST SURREY)
Pictures taken by official observer Capt fielding – E 17694-707
1st/6th Bn men in Tobruk – E 19687-92
1st/6th Bn men in Tobruk – E 6480-9, 6498-500
1st/7th Bn 5 Tp presented with 6 pdr gun by Canadian war workers – E 25913-7
Awards for gallantry – E 28465-9
Pte L.C. Ellis working as stone mason – E 29373
? – E 3794, -8
RIFLE BRIGADE (PRINCE CONSORT'S OWN)
At Antelat – E 2106-10
2nd Bn issued with 2 pdr anti-tank guns – E 9606
Gen Auchinleck with CO Lt Col Hugo Garmoyle – E 9611
1st Bn inspected by Duke of Gloucester in Western Desert – E 11313-4
2nd Bn inspected by Duke of Gloucester in Western Desert – 11510-1
2nd Bn in Western Desert – E 13830-50
9th Bn Bren carrier pln watch dumps blown up – E 18994
9th Bn watch dump blown up – E 14010
Col Penton and Maj Hastings – E 14017
2nd Bn of "August Column", 7th motored Bde – E 14028-42
2nd Bn German POW taken at Bir el Gubi – E 14064-5
2nd Bn manning 6 pdr anti-tank gun – E 14075
2nd Bn burying Italian dead – E 14228
60th Rifles (KRRC?) Senior officers in conference in Western Desert – E 14959-60
9th Bn in Qaret el Himeimat area – E 15486-7
2nd Bn men after gallant action in desert – E 18713-25
Lt Gen Lumsden visits – E 18854-7
Wounded POW released after occupation of Dena – E 19765
2nd Bn inspection by Gen Maitland – E 22783-8, -90-1
7th Bn inspection by Gen Maitland – E 22793-5
7th Bn visited by Mr Eden in Middle East – E 26165-7
7th Bn inspection by Gen Wilson at Beni Youssef – E 26277-84
9th Army rfln reading "9th Army News" – E 4316E
Carriers in advance to Tripoli – E 20910, 21863
ROYAL FUSILIERS
1st Bn with Indian Div in Eritrea – E 2185-6
1st Bn Inspection by Gen Auchinleck near Mosul – E 9738-43
ROYAL SCOTS FUSILIERS
2nd Bn pipe band at parade in Damascus before GOC 9th Army – E 24066
Various shots of Lord Gort inspecting Guard of Honour in Palestine – E 29938-41
SCOTS GUARDS
2nd Bn guarding Abbassia Barracks – E 277-83
At Mersa Matruk – E 2412-4
2nd Bn in Western Desert – E 2609-13
In the Western Desert – E 2815-27
Cdt T.A. Nicol, best cadet of OCTU Cairo – E 7664
L/Sgt Little decorated – E 8616
In Western Desert – E 13938-45
Maj David Stirling of Para Bn who destroyed 200 enemy planes – E 14454
Maj David Stirling with some his SAS "Desert Rats" – E 21338-40
Cpl Henderson of the SAS – E 221343, -46
Cpl Goldie of the SAS – E 21345
Memorial unveiled in Cairo Cathedral – E 3111-2
? – E 14004
? – E 9879-80
SHERWOOD FORESTERS (NOTTS AND DERBYSHIRE REGT)
Testing "Barblock" wire – E 11642-6
Manoeuvres in Syria – E 28572-97
Cdt E.P. Aston at Inf Octen Pass out rescues a Sam Browne – E 28673
2nd Bn officers – E 31335-6, -8
KING'S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
1st Bn ORs – E 31337
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE REGIMENT
Mr Eden inspecting troops in the desert – E 880
At Helouan – E 219-31
1st Bn at Mersa Matruk – E 858, 822-50
SUFFOLK REGIMENT
Gunners in Libyan battle – E 12924-7
SURREY REGIMENT
Cpl with Syrian Sheik – E 3794, -8
ROYAL SUSSEX REGIMENT
1st Bn CSM W. Lyons presented with MBE by C in C – E 9197
1st Bn Pte S. Young MM presented MBE by C in C – E 9198
Cpl Clarke of in Middle East – E 11050
Men advancing past wrecked enemy tanks – E 16836-7
Men who captured 44 German prisoners – E 18840-3
Pte carrying Bren gun – E 18863
Wounded POW released in ?Denna – E 19763-71
Lt (QM) W.L. Jupp – E 28816
5th Bn soldier with two POW – E 18522
1st Bn carriers on patrol – E 4470-2
ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT
Guard of Honour for Emir Abdulla of Transjordan's visit to High Commission – E 31527-8
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS
1st Bn in the desert at Mersa Matruk – E 87, 89
WELCH REGIMENT
C in C inspects and takes salute at Khartoum – E 21096-101, 21106
ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT (QUEEN'S OWN)
Pln starting attack from El Alamein – E 16590-1
Illustrating a story by Capt Fielding – E 17694-707
Wounded POW rescued at Derna – E 19763-771
DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S REGIMENT (WEST RIDING)
1st Bn officers – E 31333
1st Ors – E 31334
WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT
At Khartoum, Sudan – E 861-72
Mr Eden and Sir A. Wavell visit – E 1126-7
Men have a lucky escape – E 13113
WORCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
With Cameron Highlanders after escape from Tobruk – E 13744
YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT
2nd Bn training in desert at Helguam – E 162-79
2nd Bn arriving in Greece – E 1173-88, 1192-1208
KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
Pte Cragg with "Horace" the Gander – E 28571
ROYAL MARINES (Commando Units)
40 RM Cdo – Inspected (with SRS) by Monty after raid at Terinoli, Italy – E 26179-81
RM's pay an informal visit to Naval Signallers in the (WD?) – E 14548-9
Commandos inspected by Gen Montgomery – E 26179-84
RM having a meal at the American camp with Americans and WAAC's – E 26752-59
Marine R Brigader, shock troops raid, Aegean – E 29080
L Cpl JW Bennett – E 29082
L Cpl RH King, touching up SBS badge on shop – E 29081
RM wireless operator on NAXOS after liberation by allies – E 29909
Naval march past Damascus – E 31014
SEPCIAL FORCES
SPECIAL BOAT SQUADRON
Sgt Knot DB Henderson of Perthshire in Raid on Thira – E 28893
Personnel of SBS (Raiding Forces) at RF HQ, 21/4/45 – E 30853-57
Personnel at RF HQ including men of SBS, 26/4/45 – E 30869-79
Raid, supplies taken to the islanders, 21/11/44 – E 30137-50
Pictures taken at base in the Aegean (Two Schooners), 27/7/44 – E 29037-39
Raid on Castelrosso, off Southern Turkish coast – E 29071-76
Patrol briefed for raid on Piscopi, Dodecanese Island, 28/7/44 – E 29100-104
Raid on (Tarniana?), 28/7/44 – E 29105-9
Liberation of Lannos with Greek Sacred Sqn, 31/10/44 – E 29874-82
Liberation of Naxos by RF, 1/11/44 – E 29902-9
SBS and Sacred Squ at Khios, Supplies to Greeks, 1.11.44 – E 29909-32
Parade of Raiding forces at Cairo, inspection by C in C ME – E 31091-96
Man of SBS at exhibition of (denob?), civilian clothing – E 31091-96
Personnel aboard schooners of SBS in Aegean, 4/8/44 – E 29178-81
Occupation of Leros – E 4296-310
Maj The Earl Jelliose – E 4298
Maj The Ear Jelliose at unveiling ceremony of memorial to Greek Sacred Squ – E 28339-64
E 26456-65
Badge of SBS – E 29081
Maj The Earl Jelliose weeding - E 27820
SPECIAL RAIDING SQUADRON
Inspected by Gen Montgomery at Terenoli after capture of town, Italy – E 26182-84
SPECIAL AIR SERVICE
Pictures of the SAS RAF, cooperate with the army – E 6380-6432
Cpl Lillito in hospital after gruelling experience in desert – E 19781-19782
Members of 'Desert Rats' on patrol and returning – E 21337-50
Inspected by Gen Montgomery after raid on Termoli, Italy (Maj Scratchley SRS) – E 26182-84
1 SAS – Capt DCM Mather and Capt G Auston RA, Jeep of SAS – E 20084
Officers liaison with Greek Sacred Coy – E 23152
Badge- MH 2240
Maj D Stirling – E 14454
Parachute training, 31/10/42 (PT and 'grand jumps') – E 18757-80
Maj Stirling and Maj Ramsey (1942) – CBM 1222
Good photo of patrol on return from desert – E 21337
SAS officers chat – E 29057
Cheverolet trucks – E 12359
Paratroops in training, leaping from moving trucks – E 6380-4
Paratroops in training, leaping from moving trolley – E 6385-7
Paratroops in training, leaping from scaffolding – E 6388-93
Paratroops in training, skeleton parachute in use – E 6394-8
Paratroops in training, leaping from stationary aircraft – E 6399-6400
Head and Shoulders Portraint photo of Lt Col Paddy Mayne – AP 6069
Badge of SAS – MH 2240
Stirling stands next to 3 Jeep patrol in desert – E 21338
2 SAS officers in fully loaded jeep – E 20084
Duke of Gloucester visits Kabrit parachute centre E 12968-71
Stirling chats to man with camera – E 14454
New recruits on parade – E 18757
New recruits undergo parachute training – E 18758-771
Portrait photos of some of Stirlings men – E 18772-776
Stirlings men play baseball, basketball and swine – E 18777-780
Cpl Sillitoe after walking 100 miles from behind enemy lines – E 19781-2
French SAS, Gabes/Tozeur area – NA 674
Jeep patrol out in desert – E 21341
Close up of gunner on jeep manning twin mg's – E 212342
Typical SAS man in desert dress – E 21344
Close ups of men of SAS after return from patrol – E 21345-9
GREEK SACRED REGIMENT
Badge: A Spartan sword within a laurel wreath – E 28357
A Greek force in the ME training as commandos – E 23148-62
Memorial of Greek Sacred Squ unveiled, Samos – E 28339-64
Greek raiding forces in Aegean, volunteers Grekk Sacred Squ, 28/7/44 – E 29062-70
Two members of Gk Sac Squ resting after raidon SYMI – E 29058
Liberate Samos in Aegean, 31/10/44 – E 29883-901
C in C ME with Brig Turnbull inspects men at 'Hush Hush' Parade in Cairo – E 31093
Raid on Simi (Dodecamese Island) with SBS, 27/7/44 – E 29040-61, NA 19459-61
Raid on Milos with SBS, supplies taken to islanders, 21/11/44 – E 31237-50
Liberation of Lannos with SBS, 31/10/4 – E 29874-82
Liberation of Naxos, 1/11/44 – E 29902-9
At Khios with SBS, supplies to Greeks, 1/11/44 – E 29909-32
Detachment at liberation of Rhodes , 18/5/45 – E 30949
June 1944 – E 28805-15
November 1944 – E 29962, 30000
LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP
Two soldiers rescued when Benghazi was occupied – E 19953
LRDG, N2 Patrol March 1941 – E 2295-323
Lt Gen Ritchie talks to an officer – E 9624-5
The LRDG – E 12343-447
A jeep loaded for action – E 20084
E 21337
(McNaboln?) and Duncalfe – E 19953
Chevrolet trucks – E 12359
LRDG trucks in the Sand Sea – HU 1098
E 2295-2323
E 9624-5
E 12343-47
E 220084
E 21337
E 19953