Outcome: The relief of the siege of Tobruk. After Operation Battleaxe failed to relieve the siege of Tobruk in June 1941, General Archibald Wavell was replaced as Commander-in-Chief Middle East by ...

My father was a soldier in the 8th Army, Royal Engineers, during World War II. He became involved in the lifting of the siege of Tobruk, Operation Crusader, in November 1941. Tobruk had been ...

Documentary examination of the battle for Tobruk in the Second World War. British empire troops assault the German Afrika Korps in North Africa in order to win control over the seaport city of ...

The World War II veteran was the the last direct link with the 14,000 Australian servicemen who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the German Africa Corps in 1941 during the Siege of Tobruk ...