A FORMER "Desert Rat" has left £150 to his old North Africa campaign army colleagues so they can enjoy a slap-up bar snack in his honour.

Harry Ramsbottom, of Waddow Grove, Waddington, died of a heart attack aged 79 in October.

Now his will reveals that he has left £200 to the Waddington branch of the Royal British Legion and £150 to Haslingden man Derek Russell "for a bar snack get-together of the local ex-Accrington Alamein Reunion Dinner Committee."

The soldier fought with the Fourth Squadron of the Middlesex Yeomanry (Signals) attached to the Fourth County of London Yeomanry (Sharp Shooters), as part of Montgomery's famous Eighth Army.

Mr Ramsbottom's nephew, Leslie Ramsbottom, of Waterside Terrace, Bacup, said: "He was in the "Desert Rats" and was the local secretary for the North West branch of the Alamein Reunion Dinner Committee.

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