British Forces

Any shade will do

IWM**

A British Long Range Desert Group truck halted while its crew enjoy a midday break in the shade beneath the vehicle; July 1942. This shade was sometimes shared by exhausted and migrating birds. Corporal Read, Medical Orderly, is on top of the truck. It was essential to stop at midday in the summer because the shadow of the sun-compass needle was too short to give an accurate reading of direction.