Siege of Tobruk 1941

Dad's War Diary 2

So up the Derne road we go, leaving Tobruk behind us, Jerry frying instead of us. The RAF had knocked about...

From Alex, With Love: Drafted to HMS 'Eridge'

On the 12th, we put to sea from Alexandria with the cruiser HMS Carlisle, two other Hunt-class destroyers,...

Action at Tobruk

We will stop about half a mile out from Tobruk, and land the commandos in two waves from small boats, one...

From Tobruk to Tripoli

For two days we pummelled away at the Italian and Libyan troops, holed up in their little desert outposts....

Waiting for capture in Tobruk

They watched waves of German Stuka bombers blasting a route through the final minefield and the troops...

Gun Team plus Terrier: Near Tobruk

I can't give dates for these events as we only knew the year days and time were all one daylight and...

The Lucky Bullet

I had only gone a few hundred yards when I heard the anti-aircraft guns down at Tobruk harbour open up and...

My Father was a Desert Rat

The Siege of Tobruk, by Charles W Blanks In drab army lorries we drove past the waves, 'Til we entered...

Australians at Tobruk

The rapid retreat by the 8th Army from El Agheila was christened 'The El Agheila Handicap'. The...

Memories of World War II: Royal Army Service Corps

I was to travel on a flat-bottomed landing craft and had to supervise the loading of vehicles of all kinds,...

Count Your Blessings

Of course every thing that could be useful to the Germans had to be rendered useless which meant...

4 Bn. The Border Regiment

Instead of being flown by glider into Burma to remain during the monsoon period, whilst the other brigades...

Desert War Diary Extracts of Gilbert Wilson

Apparently the Germans came through a gap in the minefield, one army went north to Acroma — Tobruk...

Dad's War Diary 1

It must have been some severe battle, burnt out tanks, and lorries in hundreds, bags of Jerry food and...

I was a Tobruk rat, and still am at 94 years of age

The Aussies got information from both the BBC and the German radio, and they produced a newspaper called...

My husbands experiences of war Pt4 'Egypt Again'

We were taken to the docks by lorry and we reported to an office where we were given a lot of food...

David Boe's Recollections of World War Two: 1939 - 1945: Part I

This was one of the attacks to try to take Tobruk which failed and then Rommel bypassed the fortress,...

FROM ALEX WITH LOVE

A Baker at War - Part 4

There was no one in Mersa Matruh apart from British and Commonwealth troops and being only a few miles from...

North Africa & Italy Wartime Experiences with the 8th Army

I was born on May13th 1911 in 34 Beech Road Horfield Bristol and was the first born child of Fred &...

Harry Blood's War Part 4 - Serving in North Africa, 1942

Lady Lampson, wife of Sir Miles Lampson, the Governor-General, is running a scheme giving parties of...

Memories of Arthur Turner: Attached to 1st Royal Tank Regiment in North Africa

Now for a little trip from Alexandria by destroyer to the siege of Tobruk, putting me ashore in a small...

My husbands experiences of war pt2 'The Desert Rats'

Wood for the ovens was very short and we used all the wood from the bombed buildings and, when this was...

A Lucky Regular

On the 7th July 1941 we left for Egypt for Palestine and on the 11th July we went overland to Syria where...

86or 100 or desert sweeping: Memories of Tobruk

It was from here that the Liberator bombers took off to bomb the oil fields in Romania, shaking out tents...

Drive to Tobruk: June 1941

We drove through a line of machine gun fire and drove ‘hell for leather’ for about 4 miles...