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Thanks for that information.  I'm seeing Grandad again this weekend so will see if I can get any further information.  He told me that they were driving ambulances and lorries.

I know he has the Desert Rat badge (red on black jerboa).

Will hopefully have more info after the weekend, and maybe even some names of others he served with.

Hi I'm looking for further information about my grandad's regiment / wartime service and any info that people may have.  He says that he served as an ambulance/lorry driver, formerly in the 131 Battalion.  They became part of the Royal Army Service Corps.  He has the Desert Rat emblem/badge at home.
Speaking with him today I finally got some further information from him - they stopped in Tripoli for 3 or 4 days which included a visit from Winston Churchill.  He also mentioned billets at a Benghazi (?) airfield where a few of them were playing football, relaxing during a break, thinking nothing of the plane flying overhead.  The plane circled a few times and slowly got lower.  Eventually they realised something was about to happen, some dived for cover and shouted to my grandad who was sorting something out in his lorry to get away from the lorry.  He ran for cover, landing on top of 2 of his fellow servicemen just as a bomb was released from the plane.
Apparently where they were to the bomb crater was "7 paces".
Not often we get him to talk about his war service so I'm putting this info down while its fresh in my mind.
My grandad is Roland (Roly) Powell.