C SQN 7th R.T.R. Middle East Force

[Kieron Hill]

Owen, your right in what you say, but who's
to say that after the fall of Tobruk he wasn't
transfered to another Division I guess without
this guys military records we'll never know.

Trooper R Smith 7896132
C Squadron 7th RTR
Middle East Force

The Mention in Dispatches cert
mentions the Royal Armoured Corps
and Royal Armoured Regiment
and is issued to Lance Corporal
R Smith so somewhere along the
line he was promoted.

The description on the back of
the Grant tank picture states
after the Battle of Medenine (March
1943) so maybe he was part of the
22nd Amoured Brigade. What Divisions
were using the Grant? or were most
Divisions at the time using them?

I have pictures and telegraphs from
a guy while fighting in the Middle
East transfered 3 times so is wasn't
unusual.

I guess a little more research is needed.

Cheers
Kieron