Guy Lenox Prendergast DSO (c. 8 July 1905 – 6 October 1986) was an English Saharan explorer, and British Army soldier in World War II.

[1] Guy Lenox Prendergast was one of a group of British Saharan explorers in the late 1920s and early 1930s, which included Ralph Alger Bagnold, Pat Clayton and Bill Kennedy Shaw, who had explored the desert before World War II and had gained much valuable experience in navigating its hostile terrain.

[3] After the outbreak of World War II, Prendergast received a commission with the British Army's Royal Tank Regiment.

that the Allies were able to hold on to Egypt in spite of heavy armoured reinforcements reaching Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps through Tunisia, including the much feared Panzer Mark IIIs and IVs.

detachment, Deputy Director of Middle East Intelligence, Major (later Brigadier) John Enoch Powell concluded that an outflanking movement through the Qattara Depression was highly unlikely, given the terrain and lack of supply infrastructure able to handle heavy matériel.