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My father was in the Battalion Brigadiers staff car with a driver when they stopped to look at maps and take a break. A Bedford lorry with troops in the back pulled into the same spot alongside them and all the troops rushed out into the dessert to take a comfort stop.
My father the driver and the Brigadier were still in the Humber staff car when an air burst shell exploded above the dessert at the other side of the lorry.
When the 3 of them got out and looked for the troops they had all been killed and had it not been for the protection of the lorry they would all have been killed also.
It was a shocking sight which haunted my father for the rest of his life, he was a young man from the countryside who was simply overcome by what he saw and heard.
It changed him for ever.

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