The last remaining veteran of the NSW Rats of Tobruk has died, leaving behind only a few survivors of the infamous World War II campaign in the North African desert. The Rats of Tobruk earned their ...

Two convoys head from opposite ends of the Mediterranean to supply Malta, hoping to run interference for each other, and the Battle of Sevastopol continues as the Axis slowly wear down the Soviet ...

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 against ...

She was launched on Saturday, March 1, 1980 by Lady Anna Cowen, the wife of then-governor-general Sir Zelman Cowen. She departed Tomago under her own power on December 16, 1980, and proceeded down the ...

When Bob arrived in Tobruk shortly after the siege had been lifted, WO1 Alan Jones led the workshop vehicles through the streets to their new base. He was about to perform the introductions when Bob ...

The civil war between two governments vying for control of Libya is being played out bizarrely in Pretoria, as diplomats of each side conduct a protracted battle for control of the country’s embassy.

The siege of Toro was raised in November of 1942, leaving the harbor choked with a tangle of unexploded mines and sunken shipping. But it was scheduled to become an essential supply port for the ...

Players: Allies: 9th Australian Division under Major General Leslie Morshead, partially replaced by British and Polish troops between August and October. Axis: General Erwin Rommel's Deutsches Afrika ...

The following forms part of an account written by my father (Laurence Coates)shortly before his death in 1981. On the nineteenth of June, I was doing a spell of duty on guard. All was very quiet. In ...

In the meantime, we carried on our routine convoy work enduring numerous bomber attacks, while at the same time the war in the desert was at its most critical time, with Rommel up to El Alamein ...