Herbert Peet
He was a water engineer in 1939.
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He was the husband of Violet Peet of 38, Forster Street, Radford Nottingham.
TABARKA RAS RAJEL WAR CEMETERY 2. C. 10. Tunisia
In March 1943, the 270th Field Company, Royal Engineers was deployed in North Africa, serving as a frontline combat engineering unit under the 46th Infantry Division during the grueling final months of the Tunisian Campaign.
As part of the frontline engineering operations under the 46th Infantry Division, the men of the 270th Field Company were tasked with highly dangerous assignments. To stall a fierce German offensive (Operation Ochsenkopf), the engineers worked under constant mortar and artillery fire to rapidly build obstacles, blow bridges, and repair vital communication lanes. In the final days of March 1943, as the lines stabilized, the unit suffered heavy casualties while navigating and clearing dense Axis anti-personnel and "S-mine" fields left behind in the sector.
Key Movements & Operations: March 1943
The Battle of Sedjenane
• Defensive Operations: Throughout early March, a detachment of the 270th Field Company was explicitly attached to the frontline defensive groups holding the critical Sedjenane sector in northern Tunisia.
• The German Offensive: This coincided with Operation Ochsenkopf (Ox Head), a fierce, multi-pronged German counter-offensive designed to push British forces back from Tunis and capture key supply routes.
• Under Fire: Operating alongside infantry units like the Sherwood Foresters and the Lincolnshire Regiment, the engineers had to continuously repair shattered communication routes, lay defensive minefields, and blow up bridges under direct enemy mortar and artillery fire to slow down the German advance.
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