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Lieutenant Arthur Crickmay joined the 5th Royal Tank Regiment at the outbreak of war. By the time his colleagues in the 5th tanks arrived in the desert, he was almost a ‘veteran’ at the tender age of just 26. He wrote that he considered himself to ‘have been a soldier all his life’ and the thought of the humdrum existence in an office, that he had once been destined for, now made him shudder.