'Large Free French destroyer. Part of the escort', Egypt, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, North Africa, 1943.

Part of the Allied invasion fleet formed in North Africa in 1943 for Operation HUSKY, the invasion of Sicily. The French L'Adroit class destroyer Basque (T33) was interned by the British in Alexandria in June 1940. She was rearmed in 1943 and formed part of the escort for the amphibious force amassed for HUSKY.

3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), having been withdrawn to Egypt after a gruelling campaign with German and Italian forces in Libya, reorganised, re-equipped and trained for Operation HUSKY, the assault on the island of Sicily. The unit sailed from Alexandria to Tripoli and then on to Sicily in July 1943.

From an album containing 241 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).