A Humber Mk II armoured car of the UK 12th Royal Lancers on patrol south of El Alamein, Egypt, Jul 1942 ww2dbase

We might be lost!

A piper of the Gordon Highlanders (sitting on top right) plays from a Valentine tank as it drives into Tripoli, Libya, past crowds of cheering locals; 26 January 1943. 


Rolling into Tripoli

At 16.12 hours on 27 April 1941 the unescorted British motor merchant ship Beacon Grange (Master Alfred Byford Friend) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-552 south of Iceland. Two crew members were lost. The master, 73 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the Belgian trawler Edouvard Anseele, transferred to HMS Gladiolus (K 34) (LtCdr H.M.C. Sanders, DSC, RNR) and landed at Londonderry, Northern Ireland. 
