Photos of my grandad and cousin ( Desert Rat)

Hi guys here some family pics of my grandad and my cousin. I know my grandad was a desert rat in ww2 he served as an engineer. He fixed the tanks in the desert, my cousin i think was with the raf. Any ways i know i have some pics of my other grandad in burma just have to find them.
If anybody has any further info let me know
Enjoy these for the minute

Dean c

 

nice pics dean, thanks for showing them, ray..

 

Nice pictures, thanks !

 

In your photos;

the one with the three men - the man at the back was an RAF Observer and the observer's flying badge was discontinued in mid 1942 (replaced by navigators and air bombers badges), the one on the left is wearing what almost certainly appears to be a Fusiliers cap badge, which would make him almost certainly from the 2nd Batallion Northumberland Fusiliers as they were the only fuzzies in the area if it was from North Africa, and the man on the right would seem to be a Royal Artilleryman, although the badge isn't clear there aren't many that are that size and shape.

The right hand photo - both men are definitely wearing jungle issue uniform, so that photo would have been unlikely to have been taken anywhere west of India although they might have kept those uniforms when returning home. IIRC that is a late war pattern uniform as well, I think 1944 was when it was introduced - haven't been able to confirm that yet.

Although fitters in the Royal Engineers, Royal Army Service Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps and some other units did fix their own vehicles, if your Grandad fixed tanks as a full time job he is more likely to have served in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, rather than RE. However, to confuse things, the REME was only formed in October 1942 (almost all from RE, RASC and RAOC personnel), so before that he could have been serving in any of them, most likely RASC.

Hope this could help

 

Nice pictures, Thanks for sharing!

Also, Salute to spartan for that amazing response.