Department of Veterans' Affairs
Well we did as well as the Aussies did or we think we did as well as the Aussies did. We hang on to Tobruk until the breakout and after the breakout came on the 8th of December, we chased Rommel back to Gazala. We feel that, well personally that we did a good job.
During the breakout, that was a very hair-raising job. We could hear that, because the Germans were in a position in there, they had the machine guns set that way and we couldn't move bloody forwards or backwards and we could hear the Australians, Kiwis mostly, because we knew there were Kiwis, and after the third day, it lasted for three days and on the third day we succeeded to join hands with the Kiwis and the Australians as well.
I don't know which unit of the Australians it was but we chased Rommel and his lot for about 180 kilometres and then we were withdrawn from the front and we didn't take part until the invasion of Italy.
