My Tunisian friends took this video of our recent day out. 10.30 mins is Massicault cemetery (Sgt Salt etc), 17 mins is Tiger 131 capture site, 22...
I recently travelled to Tunisia and managed to find the original site of the Irish Guards' memorial on 'The Bou'. It was placed there in 1943. It...
I had no idea just how vital The Bou was to the German defence of Tunis, not until I walked the ground today. Simply epic. This is the view from...
The Bou
From The History of the Irish Guards during the Second World War, FitzGerald
Photo showing The Bou, Hill 212
Tunis Telegraph, No. 42, Monday August 9, 1943, Price 1 franc From TNA, WO 169/10168 War Diary 1st Battalion Irish Guards July - December 1943
Tunis Memorial
Have tidied up these diaries and filled in as many gaps as I could. Now in one continuous thread. (Some months still to transcribe.) TNA...
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