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![Ralph Alger Bagnold](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Ralph-Alger-Bagnold.jpeg)
![Ralph Alger Bagnold](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/colour-8.jpg)
![Official photograph (HU 24994) David Stirling (Officer Commanding Special Air Service) and Don Steele A Squadron W/T Long Range Desert Group. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205234416](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-sas.jpg)
![David Lloyd Owen (Left)](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/y-patrol-4.jpg)
![Jake Easonsmith](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jake-easonsmith-1.jpg)
![Left to right: Officers Benny Watson, Ginger Low, Ron Low and Tiny Simpson display their booty following the sacking of the Italian Fort at El Gtafia in 1941.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-men-2.jpg)
![Jake Easonsmith](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Capt-Jake-Easonsmith.jpg)
![Jake Easonsmith](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jake-easonsmith.jpg)
![Tom Merrick, one of the best navigators that the Long Range Desert Group had, would train other members in the art of crossing the desert using the sun.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-merrick-1.jpg)
![Trooper J.P.L. Macassey](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/trooper-macassey.jpg)
![Ron Landon-Lane (NZ1292). in Cedars, Lebanon, 1943.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/ron-landon-lane.jpg)
![Private Tom Ritchie of T Patrol wearing an Afrika Korps cap.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/private-tom-ritchie.jpg)
![Trooper “Snowy” I.G. McCulloch](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/trooper-snowy-mcculloch.jpg)
![Corporal David Poihipi Warbrick, NZ #21884 of T-1 Patrol.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/corporal-david-poihipi-warbrick.jpg)
![Sergeant Dick Lewis after two or three months in the desert with the Long Range Desert Group. The Photograph is taken on July 15th, 1942.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-unidentified-1.jpg)
Operation Caravan |
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![G1 Patrol Leader Jeep, Captain Timpson, and Guardsman Thomas Wann were driving. Timpson rolled the Jeep while going too fast over a sand dune, resulting in injuries for him. Wann broke his back and was permanently paralyzed as a result. Both were evacuated and missed the remainder of the operation, fortunately for Timpson. This spared Merlyn Craw from having to 'Frag' Timpson, as per the instruction of Captain Nick Wilder.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/caravan-1.jpg)
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![THE LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP (LRDG) DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (HU 16666) Three Long Range Desert Group jeeps on the edge of the Sand Sea during the operation by 'T' and 'G' Patrols to raid the Axis airfield and fuel dump at Barce. Major Jake Easonsmith, leader of the patrol, is behind the wheel of the nearest jeep. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205088548](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/caravan-2.jpg)
![](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/operation-caravan-popski.jpg)
![](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/operation-caravan-t1-patrol-te-anau-iii-1.jpg)
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![](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/operation-caravan-t1-patrol-te-anau-iii-2-1.jpg)
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Lebanon |
![LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP (HU 70043) Group portrait of members of 'Y' Patrol, Long Range Desert Group, taken at Cedars of Lebanon on training, May 1943. Front, left to right: Coombs, C R Smith. Back, left to right: Armstrong, Cashin, Gibson, Springford and Ken Smith Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205124149](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-lebanon-1.jpg)
Italy |
![A bust of Mussolini makes an ideal footrest for this Long Range Desert Group soldier.](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-italy-1.jpg)
![THE LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP (LRDG) DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR (HU 25268) The MV LA PALMA in Bari harbour. She was one of two converted fishing boats acquired by David Lloyd Owen to transport Long Range Desert Group teams in the Aegean. A jeep is carried on her forward deck, hidden by a tarpaulin. Copyright: © IWM. Original Source: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205022729](https://worldwar2-sof.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/lrdg-italy-2.jpg)
Macedonia |
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