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241757AC2. Leo Bernard Lamb
Royal Air Force Armorour 73 Squadron
from:Gloucester
My father, Leo Bernard Lamb, signed up during WW2 to join the RAF. He was posted to RAF Padgate on 25th of July 1940. On the 17th of August 1940 he was sent to join 73 Squadron and was eventually transported to the Middle East or North Africa on 13th of November 1940 on HMS Manchester. Whilst on route HMS Manchester was redirected to attack the Italian Fleet at Cape Spartivento, the battle taking place on 27th of November 1940.
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During the North Africa and Italian campaigns he became LAC and from my research he and the squadron were in all the main trouble spots. Tobruk, El Alemain and Salerno to name but a few. After the Sea Battle at Cape Spartivento the forces were taken to Alexandria and then Cairo from where the squadron started its campaigns. The squadrons planes 'Hurricanes' were being transport to RAF Takoradi from where they flew across Africa to Heliopolis. Whilst in Italy he was wounded in the legs with shrapnel and was eventually sent home in March 1944 where he was posted to RAF St Athen 32 MU and eventually being demobbed in 1946.Philip Lamb On arrival in North Africa at Alexandria the squadron went to Heliopolis to wait the arrival of the Hurricanes, which were being transported on HMS Furious to RAF Takoradi (Gold Coast) where the planes would be put together and flown across Africa to Heliopolis. He and the squadron moved west along the coast and were present at the battles for Tobruk, and then the battles at El Alamein. After defeating the AXIS Forces the squadron moved to Italy in 1943 and landed at Salerno. then from there to Foggia Main. Having been injured in late 1943 he finished up in No.1 General Hospital Naples and from there in March 1944 was ordered home as soon as possible. He arrived back in the UK and was sent to 32 MU RAF St Athan, finally discharged in 1946.Philip William John Lamb
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