So up the Derne road we go, leaving Tobruk behind us, Jerry frying instead of us. The RAF had knocked about... On the 12th, we put to sea from Alexandria with the cruiser HMS Carlisle, two other ...

None of that pride had dimmed on the 70th anniversary of the Siege of Tobruk today. Macfarlane's 2-24th battalion was on the front line of the defence of the Libyan port city, which lasted some 242 ...

When Dennis Davis was fighting on the battlefield of Tobruk, he received a letter from home which he says left him “broken”. on March 25, 1941. His story, and that of thousands of other Australian ...

IN OFFICIAL Army archives, Robert ‘Bob’ Scarr’s birth date is still incorrect, bumped up after a first failed attempt at enlisting in the Second World War. Then 18-year-old Bob was working on his ...

World War II veteran Jack Caple, 96, is one who did return and still tells his story vividly when reliving his five long years spent at war. Mr Caple fought in Tobruk, the battle of El Alamein and the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Lord Haw-Haw, the infamous British traitor who broadcast from Berlin during World War II, got it wrong by 83 years. When Australian ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The 30 members of the Melbourne-based Rats of Tobruk band have made their first visit to the Tobruk battlefields where they played at a ...

Stories categorised in 'Siege of Tobruk 1941'. These stories may contain references to other themes. I served in 215/57 H.A.A. Battery R.A. from August 1939 until I was demobbed in 1946, travelling ...