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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia's last Rat of Tobruk has died aged 102. Tom Pritchard was involved in a key World War II battle where Australian soldiers worked with British and Indian troops to defend the Libyan port of ...