Hurricane escorts trucks of a New Zealand unit on the move in Egypt on August 3, 1942.

Hurricane

British tank officers in the North African War Zone, January 28. 1941, grin at war cartoons in an Italian newspaper. 

One holds a Mascot --- a puppy found during the capture of Sidi Barrani, one of the first Italian bases to fall in the African War

Englishmen in Africa

On September 17, 1939, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was hit by torpedoes from the German submarine U-29, and sank within 20 minutes. 

The Courageous, on an anti-submarine patrol off the coast of Ireland, was stalked for hours by U-29, which launched three torpedoes when it saw an opening. Two of the torpedoes struck the ship on the port side, sinking it with the loss of 518 of its 1,259 crew members