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English: Lt-Colonel Alistair Gibb, commanding the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, in his Sherman command tank in Syria, 1943. The diamond on the turret indicates HQ squadron. Trowbridge is a town in Wiltshire where the regiment was raised; tanks in the regiment bore the names of Wiltshire towns, villages and pubs to aid identification and boost morale.
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09:48, 11 April 2007 1,553 × 1,053 (767,958 bytes) w:en:Kim Dent-Brown (talk | contribs) Lt-Colonel Alistair Gibb, commanding the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry, in his Sherman command tank in Syria, 1943. The diamond on the turret indicates HQ squadron. Trowbridge is a town in Wiltshire where the regiment was raised; tanks in the regiment bore the

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