AMATEUR ARTILLERYMAN IN THE DESERT, 1941-2

摘要

By the end of July 1941, we had received and sorted our new equipment, were joined by the rest of the 1st Field Regiment, South African Artillery, and were almost immediately moved to El Alamein, 120km west of Alexandria, to a site located within a kilometre of the sea. There was no tented village here, instead, we were introduced to the general principle of dispersing vehicles and digging ourselves into the ground. Lt Woodrow McGibbon and I shared a dugout lined with sandbags and covered by a small two-man tent.