The lumbering, heavily armoured Matilda Tank was respectfully called the 'Queen of the Desert' by its crew. At the start of the war it was highly effective against the German and Italian tanks in North Africa and was instrumental in the early desert campaigns, seeing action across Lybia and with the famous Rats of Tobruk. It was the only tank to see action throughout the entirety of World War 2, being used in the latter end by Australians in the Pacific theatre.