Tom Pritchard, Australia's last Rat of Tobruk, has died aged 102. The World War II veteran was the the last direct link with the 14,000 Australian servicemen who held the Libyan port of Tobruk ...

“Our task,” explained General Leslie James (“Holy Terror”) Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, “is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to ...

West of El Alamein we came to an airfield full of dozens of dispersed ... On our last day we saw the ruins of Tobruk. The main church is badly damaged but three bells in the tower still ring.