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264758 L/Bmbdr. Ernest Brentnall British Army 81st Anti-Tank, 297th Battery Royal Artillery from:Leyton, London My Granddad, Ernie Bretnall signed up in 1941 and was posted with 297th Battery, 81st Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery firstly in Persia and Iraq in PIAFORCE. Then he was shipped over to Egypt as part of 8th Army and fought in North Africa. I'm guessing now he was at El Alamein and various other battles of fame not what he told me at the time, he said he was an engineer building bomb shelters!!! Then around end of 1945 he transferred to 79th Regiment Anti-tank and ended up in Palestine. He did tell me a lot about Palestine and that he saw as much death and destruction peace keeping between the Jews and Arabs beginning to fight over the land there, he said it was more dangerous than the desert war! He died in 1984, told me he was Royal Engineer which I’ve since found out is a load of rubbish, he never spoke much about his service, didn’t even collect his medals. My wife did this for me in 2016 and I’ve since got his war record and he was front line active service. I'd love to find out more about anything they know about the regiment or service during the war in the desert. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.** Please type in the code shown here:    If you are unable to read the code please click here. If you have received an error message for incorrect code, please click to refresh the code before resending. This should overcome the error message.