Medjez-el-Bab in the distance, April 1943

Photograph, World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943), 1943.

First Army soldiers from 5th Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment, consolidate recently taken positions around Chaouach in Tunisia. The high land west of Heidous was attacked and occupied by the 5th Northamptons and the 2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers, on the morning of 14 April 1943. In this picture, taken near their new HQ, the high ridge of rock, Medjez-el-Beb, can be seen in the distance.

From a collection of British official war photographs relating to the 78th Division.