The Gordons


Entering Tripoli


Men of the 1st Gordon Highlanders hitch a ride on a Valentine tank to enter Tripoli on 23rd Jan 1943. They were among the first Allied troops to enter the city. Notice the piper playing the bagpipes as they proceed, he was Pipe-Major George Ramsay.


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