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 ...
Pritchard, centre, marching past the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne with former comrades on Anzac Day - Courtesy of Rats of Tobruk Association Tom Pritchard, who has died aged 102, was believed to ...
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 ...
A flight from Tripoli of Libya's Buraq Air landed late Wednesday in Tobruk, a centre of power of a parallel administration that until recently controlled the east Flights have resumed between Libya's ...
One of Australia's last 'Rats of Tobruk' war veterans has passed away at 106. The World War II veteran, Ernie Walker, died in his sleep last week at his Southern Highlands home in Penrose. There are ...
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 ...