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Default Re: British Covenantor in North Africa

Full detials from IWM.

Photo No.: E 22739
Photographer: Gladstone (Sgt)
No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit

Title: THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942

Collection No.: 4700-32

Description: Newly-arrived Royal Armoured Corps troops working on a variety of tank types at a training camp near Abbasia in Egypt, 2 March 1943. In the foreground are a Valentine and Stuart tank, with Crusaders and more Valentines behind. On the right is a Covenanter tank, perhaps the only example of its kind to have arrived in North Africa.
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