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    The Battle of Bardia was fought between 3 and 5 January 1941, as part of Operation Compass, the first British military operation of the Western Desert...
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    of the Australian 6th Division in fighting over 3–5 January 1941 at the Battle of Bardia. The Axis later reoccupied the town and set up a prisoner of...
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    Omar and XXI Corps from Sidi Omar to the coast, Bardia and Tobruk. The XXII Corps moved south-west of Tobruk to act as a counter-attack force. The British...
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    (WDF) in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. After defeating the Italians in the Battle of Bardia (3–5 January 1941), the 6th Australian...
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  • Siege of Giarabub Operation Compass continued January 3–5: First Battle of Bardia January 9–26: First Battle of Tobruk January 25: First Battle of Mechili...
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  • engagement of the local 16th division in the Battle of Bardia, the first Australian action in World War II. Bardia was gazetted as a suburb on 18 December...
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    1st CC.NN. Division "23 Marzo" (category Divisions of Italy of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War)
    Compass. After a short siege the division was destroyed during the Battle of Bardia on 3-5 January 1941. Below follows the division's organization during...
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  • Look up Bardia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bardia is a town in Libya. Bardia may also refer to: Bardia (Nepal), a region of Nepal Bardia, New South...
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    three months of training. The 2nd AIF commenced its first operations in North Africa with Operation Compass, that began with the Battle of Bardia. This was...
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    M13/40 tank (category World War II tanks of Italy)
    Compass, a British offensive. Tanks of III battalion were present at the Battle of Bardia, where in two days of fighting (January 3–4, 1941) the Australians...
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    for Bardia for supplies and arrived around mid-day. The remains of the 21st Panzer Division attacked north-west of Halfaya towards Capuzzo and Bardia. Ariete...
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    ground action undertaken by Australian troops during the war during the Battle of Bardia before helping to capture Tobruk. In April, the battalion briefly fought...
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    Annibale Bergonzoli (category Italian military personnel of the Italo-Turkish War)
    War II. In 1940 he commanded the defences of Bardia, Libya. In February 1941, after the disastrous Battle of Beda Fomm, Bergonzoli surrendered to Australian...
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    Frank Hurley (category Australian Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    also covered the battle of Bardia and the Siege of Tobruk in 1941, and both of the battles at El Alamein in 1942. Several volumes of his War Diaries cover...
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    Iven Mackay (category Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    During the Battle of Bardia in January 1941, the 6th Division captured the fortified town along with 36,000 Italian prisoners. In the Battle of Greece, he...
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    63rd Infantry Division "Cirene" (category Infantry divisions of Italy in World War II)
    division at once. The division was destroyed on 5 January 1941 during the Battle of Bardia. The division's lineage begins with the Brigade "Liguria" established...
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    2nd CC.NN. Division "28 Ottobre" (category Divisions of Italy of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War)
    part in the Italian invasion of Egypt and was destroyed during the Battle of Bardia in January 1941. The division was one of six CC.NN. divisions raised...
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    Second Australian Imperial Force (category Military units and formations of Australia in World War II)
    Corps 1927–1972, p. 104 Kuring, Redcoats to Cams, p. 138 Burness, The Battle of Bardia, p. 27 Long, To Benghazi, p. 51 Long, The Final Campaigns, pp. 19–20...
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  • Bardia Sinaee is an Iranian Canadian poet and editor, whose debut collection Intruder was the winner of the Trillium Book Award for English Poetry in...
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    battalion had just arrived. Tanks of III battalion were also present near this position, at the battle of Bardia. In two days of fighting (January 3–4, 1941)...
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    HMS Barham (04) (category World War I battleships of the United Kingdom)
    flagship of the 1st BS in December. On 3 January 1941, the ship, together with Warspite and Valiant, bombarded Bardia as a prelude to the Battle of Bardia. On...
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    Horace Robertson (category Australian Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    War, Robertson led the 19th Infantry Brigade at the Battle of Bardia and accepted the surrender of the Italian Navy at Benghazi. Later, he commanded the...
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    Bruce Ferguson (Australian Army officer) (category Australian military personnel of the Korean War)
    battles of Bardia and Tobruk in January 1941. He was posted to the 2/2nd Battalion in May and served with it in Egypt and Syria. After the recall of Australian...
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    January 1941, it took part in the first action of the war by Australian ground forces, the Battle of Bardia, which was followed by further actions around...
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    The Battle of Kasserine Pass took place from 18-24 February 1943 at Kasserine Pass, a 2-mile-wide (3.2 km) gap in the Grand Dorsal chain of the Atlas...
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    Clive Disher (category Australian Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    During the Second World War, he was in charge of medical services during the Battle of Bardia and the Battle of Buna-Gona. Harold Clive Disher was born in...
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    marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card. January 5 – WWII: Battle of Bardia in Libya: Australian and...
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    6th Division (Australia) (category Infantry divisions of Australia)
    Italian prisoners and considerable amounts of enemy weapons, supplies and equipment. The battle for Bardia cost 130 Australian lives with 326 men wounded...
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    November 2019. Stationed at Bardia. Stationed at Siwa Oasis. Joslen, H.F. (2003) [1st Pub. HMSO 1960]. Orders of battle : Second World War, 1939-1945...
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    Craig Stockings (category Academic staff of the University of New South Wales)
    National Archives of Australia to begin work on his next project—an operational history of the Battle of Bardia, the first battle in which the Australian...
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