Posted initially at Cairo and Palestine, he found himself stuck at Headquarters twenty miles behind El Alamein when his Regiment went into combat at dawn on the 24th of October, 1942, and suffered numerous casualties after being roughly handled by enemy anti-tank guns.
He was posted initially at Cairo and Palestine. He found. Himself stuck at Headquarters twenty miles behind El Alamein when his Regiment went into combat at dawn on the 24th of October and suffered numerous casualties after being roughly handled by enemy anti-tank guns. October was 1942.