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Article by M. Turner from The Nationalist
Trooper Godfrey was 22 years old when he was killed on the battlefield of El Alamein on Oct 24 1942. A fellow of the Warwickshire Yeomany, Godfrey was among the 200,000 Commonwealth soldiers fa off against 150,000 German and Italian forces in that ferocious final desert battle of the North Africa Effort of the Second World War.
El Alamein was at that continually a desolate watering station, 177km from the cosmopolitan pivot of Alexandria. But by Oct 23 1942, when Britain launched its gigantic offensive, its landscape was transformed into a battlefield of trench warfare that would margin to a huge loss of human soul in the showdown between two of the Second World War’s most eminent commanders: Britain’s General Bernard Montgomery and Germany’s Common Marshall Erwin Rommel.
Four months earlier, Britain had skilful a demoralising defeat with the fall of Tobruk in the Libyan leave flat. Montgomery arrived as a last-ditch exertion to change the tide of the war.
He did just that, but the struggle of El Alamein would also claim the lives of thousands of callow soldiers like Godfrey, fighting on both sides and in terrible conditions. Many of the troops had been living for months in trenches dug in a maroon full of sandflies and crippling heat.
Ewen Frazer of the Gordon Highlanders had done up October 23 in the trenches in upset anticipation of what was to come. “We were day one to feel the night, cold after the stimulate of the day, and we were becoming a prey to our thoughts. Our morale was sharp. We were physically and mentally strong. The little-known factor was how we would stand up individually under fire,” he wrote on the eve of the encounter.
When the bombs fell the next day, it came as a outrage to the young soldiers, most of whom were in their twenties and seeing Donnybrook for the first time.
“It got nearer and when it was overhead we heard the whine of falling bombs....
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