Batttle of Knightsbridge Box

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  1. john w.

    john w. Junior Member

    Anyone help with details on this battle, it was where a colleague of mine's dad was captured.

    His dad was in the 10th Hussars.

    Cheers

    John
     
  2. BeppoSapone

    BeppoSapone Senior Member

    Originally posted by john w.@Jun 29 2004, 05:51 AM
    Anyone help with details on this battle, it was where a colleague of mine's dad was captured.

    His dad was in the 10th Hussars.

    Cheers

    John
    "Knightsbridge Box" was a defensive box in the western desert, called Knightsbridge because it was, at first, garrisoned by the Guards Brigade.

    http://www.btinternet.com/~ian.a.paterson/battles1942.htm
     

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  3. BeppoSapone

    BeppoSapone Senior Member

    Originally posted by john w.@Jun 29 2004, 05:51 AM
    Anyone help with details on this battle, it was where a colleague of mine's dad was captured.

    His dad was in the 10th Hussars.

    Cheers

    John
    Forgot to say, if you have a name, date of capture etc you might come up with more.

    For example, this link: http://www.warlinks.com/armour/3_cly/3cly_42.html
    will take you to the 1942 War Diary of the 3rd County of London Yeomanry
    (3rd Sharpshooters). Scroll down to 27 May 1942 and you get a list of both officer and OR casualties at Knightsbridge.
     
  4. MalcolmII

    MalcolmII Senior Member

    I have the original War Office publication on 8th Army from which the attached map is taken. Knightsbridge was on a crossroads near Gazala and was important for any army going for Tobruk.
    Aye
    MalcolmII
     
  5. angie999

    angie999 Very Senior Member

    This was a part of the bigger battle of Gazala in May/June 1942. There is a fairly detailed account in Barrie Pitt's The Crucible of War: Auchinleck's Command, chapter 5. This is the second volume of his trilogy on the desert war from 1940 to el Alamein.
     
  6. morse1001

    morse1001 Very Senior Member

    there is also Rommels account of the Battle in Chapter 9 of his papers.

    this is taken from the Rommel Papers. it is interesting to compare both versions of the same battle map.
     
  7. angie999

    angie999 Very Senior Member

    I hate to put a damper on the party, but aren't these maps breaching copyright?
     
  8. morse1001

    morse1001 Very Senior Member

    Originally posted by angie999@Jul 2 2004, 06:14 PM
    I hate to put a damper on the party, but aren't these maps breaching copyright?
    since they do not represent 10% of either the total images or text then copyright does not come into it!
     
  9. MalcolmII

    MalcolmII Senior Member

    less than 10% and they are for ' research purposes ' and not commercial use.
    Now if I'd copied the whole book and sold it to you ............................

    Aye
    Malcolm
     
  10. morse1001

    morse1001 Very Senior Member

    Originally posted by MalcolmII@Jul 2 2004, 06:40 PM
    less than 10% and they are for ' research purposes ' and not commercial use.
    Now if I'd copied the whole book and sold it to you ............................

    Aye
    Malcolm
    dont need to. i've got the book!!! :D :D
     
  11. john w.

    john w. Junior Member

    Cheers all.. will print and give to my colleague at work

    John
     
  12. macgormain

    macgormain Junior Member

    The maps do not seem to mention 150 Brigade which fought until its position was finally overrun on 2 June 1942. Rommel himself led the final assault and praised the bravery of the British infantry. In my Dad's sector they had long run out of water, having fought in the Desert heat for some six days, and after firing off the last ammo fixed bayonets and charged at the German 90th Light.

    If the donkeys had reinforced the Brigades position in time, and not abandoned it to its fate, Rommel would not have been able to resupply his Panzer Divisions with fuel who had swung south around Bir Hacheim and north to attack the British armour.
     

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