Cromwell tanks from 2 Welsh Guards, the recce (=reconnaisance, military scouting) regiment of Guards Armored Division; 1944. 
These were nominally attached to Armored Divisions as divisional recon particularly after the breakout from Normandy following the use of Armored Reconnaissance Regiments as normal tank battalions.


Breakout from Normandy

A soldier of the Scottish unit of the British 8th Army gives light to a captured, wounded Italian officer, so he could have a smoke; Egypt, the second Battle of El Alamein, October 1942.

Have a smoke, Chap...

British artillerymen fire a 140 mm field gun (BL 5.5 inch Medium Gun Mk.III) in the North African desert; September 14, 1942.