| Places | |
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| Accession Number | S01610 |
| Collection type | Sound |
| Measurement | 1 hr 30 min |
| Object type | Oral history |
| Physical description | 1/4 inch sound tape reel; AGFA PEM 369; 3 3/4 ips/9.5 cm.s; stereo; 5 inch |
| Maker |
Daly, Thomas Joseph Breen, Robert John Breen, Robert John |
| Date made | 11 May 1992 |
| Access | Open |
| Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Status to be assessed |
| Copying Provisions | Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction. |
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly KBE CB DSO (Ret): Service in early years of the Second World War, interviewed by Lieutenant Colonel Robert (Bob) Breen
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Tape 1: 2/10 Battalion departs England for Middle East in November 1940; battalion in Colchester on protective duty; activities on ship during voyage to middle east; Leslie Morsehead; arrived new years eve in Alexandria; camped at Ikingi Maryut; training in desert warfare; capture of Tobruk; taking of village/Fort of (Jerabub?); transporting Italian prisoners back to Ikingi Maryut. Tape 2: Being Brigade Major on operations and exercises; structures and procedures of brigade headquarters staff; preparations for defence of Tobruk; attack by Germans on Tobruk; breakthrough at Hill 209; Australians counter attack; Germans resist and counter attack peters out; poor communications and direction of Australian counter attack along the German line contribute to failure of attack.
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