IWM Photo Series - Breakfast time with a Tank Crew Item/object/205203720 THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942 E9785 : Object description - The crew of a Crusader tank have a wash and shave by the side of their vehicle, March 1942. Note the roughly applied camouflage paint on the trackguards. Label The crew of a Crusader tank have a wash and shave by the side of their vehicle, North Africa, March 1942. Photo taken by Sergeant (Nb not - Lieutenant Taylor - see posts below). Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205550580 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9786 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Cooking breakfast almost underneath the tank. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205550581 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9787 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Dishing it out. It seems to smell good! Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205203721 THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942 E9788 : Object description - The crew of a Crusader tank eat their breakfast beside their vehicle, March 1942. Label - The crew of a Crusader tank eat their breakfast beside their vehicle, North Africa, March 1942. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205550582 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9789 : Object description - Original wartime caption: But suddenly a yell: "Jerry!" Breakfast is cast aside and every man leaps to action. Steel helmets are grabbed. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205550583 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9790 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Up on to their tank the crew leaps to man the ack-ack gun. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. Item/object/205550584 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9791 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Manning the ack-ack gun. If Jerry decides to dive-bomb or machine gun this tank the crew is ready and he will get a warm reception. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. item/object/205550585 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW E9792 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Another good breakfast ruined. By the time Jerry has cleared off it is all cold and uneatable. All just part of life in the Western Desert. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. -- x -- item/object/205550586 A GENERAL VISITS TANK HEADQUARTERS E9793 : Object description - Original wartime caption: General Gott arrives at Tank Headquarters in the desert. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942. -- x -- Item/object/205203722 THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942 E9861 : Object description - A transporter carrying a Crusader tank with 'sun shield' lorry camouflage bogged down on soft ground, 29 March 1942. Photo taken by Lieutenant Murray & Sergeant Travis. Catalogued 29d3m1942.
Notes... "A" Squadron, 3rd Troop - T43694 BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW BREAKFAST TIME EPISODE WITH A TANK CREW --- x --- Similar T numbers... COUGAR 63 47th Royal Tank Regiment, 24th Armoured Brigade, 8th Armoured Division C Sqn 10TP Cruiser A15, Mk VI Crusader Mk III - T 46383 Western Desert 1942 - Tpr. Spanton Courtesy Pete Mallett
There is a "prior" IWM Photo series called - "A day in the Life of a Tank Crew" Starting with E9750 etc. Item/object/205203719 THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942 IWM E 9772 : Object description - A Valentine tank training in the Western Desert, 27 March 1942. -- x -- Item/object/205550550 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A TANK CREW E9750 : Object description - Original wartime caption: Sgt. Roy Brooks, the Commander of the tank. The desert is a cold place much of the time, calling for the warmest clothing. Brooks is 23. He was a clerk in an aircraft factory. Photo taken by Lieutenant Vanderson. Catalogued 27d3m1942.
The photographer of the "Breakfast With a Tank Crew" series seems hard to establish from the cards and descriptions There's a Taylor (Sgt) tag : Find an object | Imperial War Museums Sgt.Taylor tag : Find an object | Imperial War Museums And a Lieutenant Taylor description that doesn't match Sergeant Taylor's rank at that time, and is possible to confuse with a Lieutenant Taylor who operated mainly in the UK. --- x --- Sergeant Taylor... THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST 1940-1947 IWM E8625 : Object description - Original wartime caption: One of our tanks seen going into action. Catalogued 21d2m1942. BRITISH AMBULANCE BURNED OUT IWM E9095 : Object description - Original wartime caption: A British ambulance attacked by enemy aircraft in the Desert, hit and burned out. Grave in foreground is of occupants. Catalogued 6d3m1942. BRITISH AMBULANCE BURNED OUT IWM E9095 : Object description - Original wartime caption: A British ambulance attacked by enemy aircraft in the Desert, hit and burned out. Grave in foreground is of occupants. Catalogued 6d3m1942. CHURCH SERVICE IN THE DESERT E9097 : Church Service - Queen's Bays. Photographed by Sergeant Taylor - 6th March 1942. Photographed by Sergeant Taylor, Catalogued 2d4m1942. THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA 1942 IWM E10125 : Object description - Cheering crews pose with a Crusader tank for a special photograph to show their appreciation for tanks received from Great Britain, 2 April 1942. The sign reads "Thanks for the tanks, from Libya". --- x --- x --- Re. Lieutenant Taylor, AFPU... Some examples of where Lieutenant Taylor's photographs were catalogued and when... -- x -- August 1940 - UK November 1940 - UK February 1941 - UK March 1941 - UK April 1941 - UK September 1941 - UK November 1941 - UK February 1942 - UK May 1942 - Wales - THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45 October 1942 - UK November 1942 - UK April 1943 - UK May 1943 - UK August 1943 - UK --- x --- x --- Taylor (Lieutenant) Find an object | Imperial War Museums
A GENERAL VISITS TANK HEADQUARTERS A GENERAL VISITS TANK HEADQUARTERS E9794 A GENERAL VISITS TANK HEADQUARTERS IWM E9795 : Object description - Original wartime caption: General Gott talking to a tank crew. Photo taken by Sergeant Taylor. Catalogued 27d4m1942.
Possibly 10th Hussars is a shade more likely, given what at least can be seen of their cap badges. They aren't too dissimilar from the 9th Lancers, at this scale, and from these angles, plus the tac sign itself is possibly merely too dark to be 9th Lancer "gold/yellow" . The darker (being "azure/blue") tac sign of the Hussars in this instance would be more pronounced... (Tac colours - for comparisons)
