TRACKS - June 2021

Kuno Gross: Most probably the readers of this magazine have never heard of the original TRACKS. I was in the very same situation until by the end of 2020, when NZ LRDG-historian Brendan OCarroll has provided me with a hardly readable copy of the June 1941 issue of TRACKS. I was immediately fascinated by these windows into the past and just thought: "We should revive TRACKS! " The editor of the original Tracks was, that time 20 years old, TA Sgt. N.A Moore, a clerk attached to LRDG Group HQ. The June 1941 issue was created by him when the LRDG HQ was located at Kufra. There he got the idea to create a "house paper" for the unit. He recalled in a letter which was published in the 1991 Newsletter of the LRDG Association, that there were only a very limited number of people who were willing to contribute and that this first edition was mainly launched thanks to the contribution of Lieut. Col. Bagnold and Captain Kennedy Shaw. And indeed, the June 1941 remained the single and only issue of Tracks - it was never published again.... until today!CONTENT 2021Editorial Note: Kuno GrossForeword: Lieut Col R.A. BagnoldForte el Gtafia, shelled by the Artillery Section: Kuno GrossLRDG Desert Poems: Private J.M. Williamson, R PatrolKufra, a historical Note: Capt. W.B. Kennedy ShawLong Range Desert Group Preservation Society: Jack ValentiChevrolet WA or WB? What type of trucks: Kuno Gross"Big Cairn", the loneliest Pile of Stones: Andras ZborayThe LRDG in Greece, Jeep and Trailer: Erik AhlströmWho was Norman Moore? The editor of TRACKS: an ChardThe Sand Tyres, "Shoes" of the Patrol Trucks: Charlie DownBrendan O'Carroll's Books: Bob Amos-JonesNow and Then, Halt at Gilf Kebir: Kuno GrossB122 Conduct Forms, Witnesses of the Past: Ian Chard"Sand Channels": Sam WatsonThe SRD Rum Jar from Siwa: Sam Watson