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The Long Range Desert Group
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The Long Range Desert Group

26 July 1941: David Lloyd Jones describes the work of the legendary unit

Jul 26, 2021
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New Zealand members of the LRDG pause for tea in the Western Desert, 27 March 1941.

Captain David Lloyd Jones was bored with his job training officers in Cairo when he learnt, through a friend, that there was vacancy for an officer the little known LRDG. Despite being from the Queens Royal Regiment and not from the Yeomanry (reserve cavalry at the beginn…

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