024996 Accession Number: 024996

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Western Desert, Egypt. 16 September 1942. Group portrait of officers of the Royal Scots Greys posing in front of one of the regiment’s M3 General Grant medium tanks. This is the first picture taken of them since the regiment changed from horsed cavalry to an armoured regiment in September 1941.

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Accession Number
024996
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
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Copyright expired - public domain

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