The second phase of Operation Compass took the battle into Cyrenaica ... and 40,000 prisoners were taken. The port of Tobruk, 160km inside Cyrenaica, fell to Australian troops on 21 January ...

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 ...

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 ...

He served as an ­ambulance attendant during the eight-month-long Siege of Tobruk, which is regarded as a stand-out battle for Australia's soldiers, and in Milne Bay, New Guinea and Balikpapan in ...