Valentine III - Tunisia

The Valentine tank was first submitted as a design to the War Office by Leslie Little of Vickers Armstrong in February 1938. His design used the same chassis, suspension, engine and transmission as the A10 Cruiser tank. The design was changed to take a lower more heavily armoured superstructure and a new turret armed with a 2pdr.

As the tank was submitted just prior to St. Valentine’s Day it was decided to call the tank the Valentine.