40th (The King's) Royal Tank Regiment

[1][2] Equipped with Vickers Valentine tanks, the regiment served with the 23rd Armoured Brigade in North Africa.

Finigan it fought at El Alamein and acquired the nickname "Monty's Foxhounds" during the long pursuit of the Afrika Korps and the Italian Army across Egypt and Libya and into Tunisia.

It later served in the Italian Campaign, landing in Sicily in July 1943, and fighting their way up the eastern coast.

They then fought their way up to the country to the Gothic and Gustaf lines and to the Po valley.

In recognition of its services in North Africa, Vickers Engineering presented Colonel Finigan with a silver model of the Valentine which still serves as a centrepiece when former officers of the Regiment and its successor dine formally together.