El Alamein

The Fifth Doctor listed El Alamein as one of the many battlefields he had walked through. (PROSE: The King of Terror)

The Eighth Doctor claimed to have driven an ambulance at El Alamein "several lifetimes ago" and was registered as Dr John Smith 55583. (PROSE: Autumn Mist)

Major Daker claimed that traitors and cowards were executed at El Alamein. (PROSE: Ghosts of India)

Sam Bishop's great-grandfather fought in El Alamein in North Africa with the British Eighth Army in World War II. Following the war, he would regale the young Sam Bishop with war stories of his time there, inspiring him to eventually join UNIT. (AUDIO: Earthfall)

In the 1970s, the Third Doctor claimed to Robbins that he was wounded in the leg in Crimea. He quickly changed his story to say it was Gallipoli, and then El Alamein, before questioning if it mattered. (TV: The Sea Devils)