7th Armoured Division pennant

THE DESERT RATS

3RD ROYAL TANK REGIMENT

PHOTO GALLERY

Warminster January 1941   Durban August 1941
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
Cairo 1943   Germany
Dad photographed in Cairo 1943   At an unknown location, possibly Germany
Tank

Dad and a fellow crewman, Reg Potter, beside their tank at an unknown location in Europe 1944-45

 

Dad May 1945
Dad and Reg again - this time on board an American car- May 1945
'A' Squadron Belgium

Members of 'A' Squadron photographed in Belgium

3 RTR in Holland 1944

3 RTR crewman Harry Vaughan (second left) with a local Dutch lady

 

Brew up! Tank

Having a brew -fellow crewman Harry Smith (right)

Maurice Riley in front of his tank

 

Dad on a bike 1945

Dad on a motorbike somewhere in Germany 1945

 

Results of Allied bombing
Bill (right - surname unknown) from the Transport Corps photographed on a German radar installation bombed by the Allies

 

Dad and his tank 1941-42
Dad (right) with two unknown colleagues beside his tank

 

Near the Danish border July 1945
Bill Bourne, Maurice Riley and Reg Potter - July 1945 near Bargen, Schleswig-Holstein

 

Dad 1945-46
Dad photographed in 1945-46

 

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