"Penelope" was the cruisers real name, but she was so battered and holed by bomb splinters while escorting a convoy to Malta and during a fortnight's stay in harbour there that her crew gave her the apt nick-name.  Note the many holes in her port side [above], plugged with wooden pegs.

H.M.S. "PEPPERPOT" after her ordeal

Medjez-el-Bab on the river Medjerda, about 32 miles from Tunis, and 43 miles from Bizerta, was captured by the British First Army on November 27, 1942, after stiff enemy resistance.  Gunners of the First Army have here converted their A.A. gun to use as a field gun to counter enemy artillery fire and protect the Royal Engineers as they were repairing a bridge demolished by the retreating enemy.

A.A. gun used as a field gun near Medjez-El-Bab

Flight Leader Buzz Beurling - RCAF DSO, DFC, DFM  &  Bar
Beurling was born 6 December 1921 in Verdun, Quebec.  Beurling enlisted 20 September 1940 
Awarded wings, 9 September 1941
Served in Nos.403 and 41 Squadrons
To No.249 Squadron, 9 June 1942 via HMS Eagle
Wounded, 14 October 1942
Survived a Liberator crash at Gibraltar, 31 Oct. 1942 
To No.1 Depot, UK, 31 October 1942
On loan to RCAF, 8 November 1942 
shot down by Bob Buckham in an unreported 
- friendly-fire training incident early June 1943
To No.61 OTU (instructing), 6 July 1943
Transferred to RCAF, 1 September 1943
With No.403 Squadron, 5 September to 8 November 1943
No.126 Wing, 8-29 November 1943
No.412 Squadron, 29 November 1943 to 8 April 1944
To Canada, 30 April 1944
Arrived in Canada, 8 May 1944
Released from RCAF, 16 October 1944
Killed in plane crash (sabotage?) Rome, Italy, 20 May 1948
Two years later his body was moved to
Mount Carmel Cemetery in Israel.
He is buried next to Len Fitchett
