
THE DESERT RATS
3RD ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
PHOTO GALLERY
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| Dad as a new recruit at Warminster in January 1941 | Photo of dad taken outside his uncle's house in Durban, South Africa, in August 1941, en route to Egypt |
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| Dad photographed in Cairo 1943 | At an unknown location, possibly Germany |
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| Dad and Reg again - this time on board an American car- May 1945 |
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Members of 'A' Squadron photographed in Belgium |
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3 RTR crewman Harry Vaughan (second left) with a local Dutch lady |
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Having a brew -fellow crewman Harry Smith (right) |
Maurice Riley in front of his tank |
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Dad on a motorbike somewhere in Germany 1945 |
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| Bill (right - surname unknown) from the Transport Corps photographed on a German radar installation bombed by the Allies |
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| Dad (right) with two unknown colleagues beside his tank |
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| Bill Bourne, Maurice Riley and Reg Potter - July 1945 near Bargen, Schleswig-Holstein |
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| Dad photographed in 1945-46 |