SHUN THE LIMELIGHT

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 21 July 1942, Page 5

SHUN THE LIMELIGHT

British Tommies Praised

(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 20, 7.30 pan.)' RUGBY, July 19. When the present battle began in North Africa, nearly two-thirds of the Eighth Army troops were men from the Home country. This fact is stated by an observer in Egypt in th. course of a tribute to the soldiers of the Mother Country. He writes: "The work done by British units of the Eighth Army certainly made me and every other observer I met feel full of pride in being British. Of course we know the New Zealanders, Canadians, South Africans, and Indians share the British title, just as we know of their magnificent fighting, for which no praise is too high. “But the people 1 write about now are the home Britons, fair-liaired men from Sussex, great rough friendly Yorkshiremen, Irishmen with music in their voices, and that knobbly-kueed race of fighters, the Scots. Their praises arc too often unsung. Tommy Atkins definitely prefers to let the limelight fall on others.” The observer said that all the crews of our tank forces come from the United Kingdom. So do most of our gunners, and who can say that our gunners and tank men have not fought like tigers?— that is the expression Rommel himself is reported to have used during the past week’s bitter fighting. There are countless stories of the courage and endurance of our gunners and tank men.