Fascinating. 25 Armoured Brigade was an independent brigade, ie not part of a division. My late father Brigadier A W Brown was the Brigade Commander and I have many happy memories ov visiting Base Workshops, going out into the desert on exercise with the B Echelon vehicles, and visiting a tank regiment (5RTR?) carrying out live firing but I forget where. Later a J Arthur Rank film unit came out to make a film called The Black Tent. Needing quite a lot of military equipment and personnel the Producer and Director came to see my father at our villa about 10 kilometres west of Tripoli. I was out for the school holidays with my mother. My father agreed to lend them a troop of Centurion tanks, a couple of half tracks, plus some other vehicles as well as a couple of dozen soldiers. thanks you try doing that nowadays, off your own bat without getting permission from a lot higher up the chain of command!! As a quid pro quo the Director offered me a job on location at Sabratha with the film unit. Happy Days!
Royal Scots Greys, Libya 1950s
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Fascinating. 25 Armoured Brigade was an independent brigade, ie not part of a division. My late father Brigadier A W Brown was the Brigade Commander and I have many happy memories ov visiting Base Workshops, going out into the desert on exercise with the B Echelon vehicles, and visiting a tank regiment (5RTR?) carrying out live firing but I forget where. Later a J Arthur Rank film unit came out to make a film called The Black Tent. Needing quite a lot of military equipment and personnel the Producer and Director came to see my father at our villa about 10 kilometres west of Tripoli. I was out for the school holidays with my mother. My father agreed to lend them a troop of Centurion tanks, a couple of half tracks, plus some other vehicles as well as a couple of dozen soldiers. thanks you try doing that nowadays, off your own bat without getting permission from a lot higher up the chain of command!! As a quid pro quo the Director offered me a job on location at Sabratha with the film unit. Happy Days!
ian Ward-Brown