Brian Burton

Brian Burton is an independent military historian (‘The Forgotten Regiment – The Story of the 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars, Libya 1941-1942′), specialising in Middle Eastern campaigns. He served in the North African campaign as tank crew with the regiment, part of 22nd Armoured Brigade of the famous 7th Armoured Division in 1941-42, and was involved in the relief of Tobruk and the capture of Benghazi. Burton’s unit undertook a number of operations in conjunction with the Australian 9th Infantry Division which helped stabilize the position at El Alamein. He then went on to serve in Italy and later in France and Germany with 21 Army Group and ended up in Berlin – and even managed to inspect the Hitler bunker under the Reich Chancellery before the Russians blew it up. Altogether an interesting, if at times, hazardous war.