Axis during the Battle of Mersa Matruh but was recaptured following the Second Battle of El Alamein. Mersa Matruh is served by Mersa Matruh International...

Battle of Mersa Matruh was fought from 26 to 29 June 1942, following the defeat of the Eighth Army (General Sir Claude Auchinleck) at the Battle of Gazala...

retreated east from the Gazala line into north-western Egypt as far as Mersa Matruh, roughly 160 km (99 mi) inside the border. Ritchie had decided not to...

Mersa Matruh on 29 June 1942. During the brief siege of Mersa Matruh in June 1942 Axis forces captured 6,000 British troops and large quantities of supplies...

to hold Mersa Matruh, choosing to fight a delaying action with X and XIII Corps. The Afrika Korps was delayed at the Battle of Mersa Matruh but signal...

Alamein. On the next day, Rommel arrived at Matruh and broke through in the centre. The Battle of Mersa Matruh was another fiasco for the Eighth Army, who...

Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) of 2nd Armd Bde on 28 June while the Battle of Mersa Matruh continued. Rommel got between the Eighth Army's formations and forced...

assembled at Mersa Matruh and sent the 7th Support Group forward towards the frontier as a covering force, where the RAF also moved most of its bombers...

in Mersa Matruh, Egypt, where he was killed in combat. On the 27th June, 1942, south of Mersa Matruh, Private Wakenshaw was a member of the crew of a 2-pounder...

February 1941) and captured at the Battle of Beda Fomm. The German blocking force, commanded by Rommel, at first consisted of a force based only on Panzer Regiment...

fuel again, 30 mi (48 km) south-west of Mersa Matruh. A fuel convoy had set out from Alamein on the evening of 5 November but progress was slow as the...

the Command of the X Army Corps, participating in Operation Crusader, the battle of Gazala, the battle of Mersa Matruh and the First Battle of El Alamein...

Battle of Sidi Barrani or the Battle of Mersa Matruh, First, Second Battles of El Alamein. The government of Egypt, and the Egyptian population, played...

history and consisting of a steam explosion and reactor fire in Leipzig. June 26–29 – WWII: Battle of Mersa Matruh: German forces of the Panzer Army Africa...

of Mersa Matruh. But as Kesselring and Italian commanders argued, the logistical difficulties mounted and the result was the disastrous fighting of the...

the Corps during the battles of Gazala and Bir Hakeim. On 26 June 1942, during an inspection of the frontline near Mersa Matruh, the staff car in which...

then fought in the Battle of Mersa Matruh, before a further retreat took place to El Alamein. This was followed by the First Battle of El Alamein and heavy...

important rail station terminus. Mersa Matruh was also the site of the Baggush Box camp and the Battle of Mersa Matruh. Bougie Harbour, Algeria was taken...

during the battles of Gazala, Tobruk, Bir Hakeim and Mersa Matruh. For his successes he was awarded, on May 26, 1942, the Officer's Cross of the Military...

Nationalists side in the war. From mid-1937, Bastico's force fought in the Battle of Santander, a decisive victory for the Nationalists. In late 1937, Bastico...

British screening forces of the 7th Support Group (7th Armoured Division) the main force remaining in the vicinity of Mersa Matruh, the principal British...

Battle of Mersa Matruh June 28: Battle of Fuka June 30: Battle of the El Alamein Box July 1-27: First Battle of El Alamein July 1–2: First Battle of the...

delaying battle on the frontier impossible. As the army retreated further, Ritchie was determined to fight the final battle of the campaign at Mersa Matruh. On...

Brega, Gazala, Mersa Matruh and First Alamein. The origin of the Tower Hamlets Rifles lay in an invasion scare of 1859, when large numbers of Rifle Volunteer...

Baggush, 35 miles (56 km) east of Mersa Matruh during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II. The box was built by men of the Western Desert Force (Lieutenant-General...

Division at the Battle of Mersa Matruh. The British were defeated and fell back to a new line at El Alamein. In a series of battles fought in July 1942...

his love of fire and wanting to be always in the middle of the action. An exploding German shell wounded Freyberg at the Battle of Mersa Matruh in June...

regiment distinguished itself in the Battle of Mersa Matruh and in July fought in the First Battle of El Alamein. The regiment was disbanded on 25 September...

of 2nd South African Division in the Battle of Gazala. On 25 June it transferred to 22nd Armoured Brigade and took part in the Battle of Mersa Matruh...

Cairo/West Minya Fayid Gabal El Basur Hurghada Inshas Gianaclis Kom Awshim Mersa Matruh Jandali Abu Suweir Air Base 30°34′22″N 032°05′47″E / 30.57278°N 32...