This is another example of damage that was probably repaired before the tank left Tunisia.

The loader's hatch clearly took a bashing and one assumes that it was open at the time.

Was this after the loader escaped or did the crew leave it open in action to ventilate the turret?

This, then, must be the loader's hatch from another of the Tigers in Tunisia.

It would appear to have been in place by the time the King and Winston Churchill saw 131 in Tunis.