- Contributed by听
- 大象传媒 Learning Centre Gloucester
- People in story:听
- Stanley Painter
- Location of story:听
- Egypt
- Background to story:听
- Army
- Article ID:听
- A8077485
- Contributed on:听
- 28 December 2005
Stanley Painter's tank crew colleagues in 1944 - the caption on the back of the photo reads: "Not posed - faces etched in sand don't make good pictures"
This story has been contributed to the People鈥檚 War by the 大象传媒 Learning Centre on behalf of Stanley Painter鈥檚 son Richard, with his permission.
My father was a tank commander with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and spent much of the war in Suez, Egypt. He saw plenty of action and was awarded several medals.
Due to the trauma of seeing many of his mates killed and injured he never talked to me about his experiences.
The effect of seeing people killed and injured caused him to try and destroy his medals, but my mother retrieved them and kept them safe, and managed to obtain new ribbons for them.
These photographs were taken with his tank crew in 1944. My father died in 1976.
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