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 ...

He became involved in the lifting of the siege of Tobruk, Operation Crusader, in November 1941. Tobruk had been besieged by Rommel's troops since April 1941 and was being held by mostly Australian ...

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 ...