Tank men ready for the road. Note the inscriptions on the tank, Alamein and Tripoli are scored out and Tunis appears to be the next stop.

North Africa

North American Mitchell Mk IIs of No. 226 Squadron RAF based at Hartford Bridge, Hampshire, dropping 500-lb MC bombs over the Foret de Grimbosq, south of Caen, in the evening of 12 June 1944. This operation was the biggest daylight raid mounted by No. 2 Group since 6 June, in which 90 aircraft bombed the 21st Panzer Division which was dispersed in the forest.

Daylight raid

My Grampy is top right. My mum thinks he was in Malta and Gibraltar in ww2. He lived in Gloucestershire when the war started. I would love to find out more about he time in ww2 but sadly don't even know the regiment let alone any other info.