Photograph: Looking down on Mersa Matruh on 26th June 1942, my birthday, 25 years. I was to be later fleeing towards El Alamein in front of the German advance with thousands of others.
Shows the view down the main road into town.
From a collection of photographs and associated negatives taken by Pte Kenneth Charles Albert Hardy, Royal Army Service Corps and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1941-1943.
Associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943).

Looking down on Mersa Matruh on 26th june 1942, my birthday, 25 years. I was to be later fleeing towards El Alamein in front of the German advance with thousands of others.