Sorry I haven't replied sooner. I've been comparing, with the aid of a magnifying glass, the faces in the Desert Rats 8th Army Photo with those in mine but can't place any. Could the location of ...

My dad was in the 8th Army with the Desert Rats. He was a rifleman and radio operator in the KRRC in the North Africa campaigns in WWII under Montgomery. I remember him teaching me Morse Code as a ...

The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions. I was in the 8th Army during WW2 and took part in Battles at Salerno, El Alamein and D Day Landings in Normandy. I was part of the ...

The Libyan desert, 1941. Frank Doe is pictured foreground 2nd right (top left), foreground centre (top right), and foreground 2nd left (bottom). Also posing in the photographs are soldiers wearing ...

For three days, the brave band of Desert Rats suffered relentless Panzer attacks ... the Germans at ‘Knightsbridge’ to protect the 8th Army as it withdrew. The picture was completed by ...

A bag belonging to a World War II soldier from Lancashire has been discovered in the Egyptian desert after lying there for more than 60 years. Alec Ross, from Burnley, lost the bag containing personal ...