A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Allied forces, mainly the Australian 6th Division, captured Tobruk from Italian forces on 22 January 1941. Tobruk was a small town on the Libyan ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harry Ross Sutherland, from the 18th Brigade of the Australian 7th Division, recounts his experience while deployed in the Libyan port of Tobruk in 1941. Harry Ross Sutherland, from the 18th Brigade ...

Here is a letter sent by my father to his mother with details of his latest adventure. 952104 Gnr Hawken J. F. B/O Battery 1st Reg. R.H.A. M.E.F. 28/6/41 Please forgive me for not writing for some ...