ECP0928

*Items inside of a cigar box, says "Churchill's Special"

Collection of letters and telegraphs between Harry Curd and others. Shows he was stationed in South Africa during the war and went back to Britain. Also shows he fractured his knee during this time. Also included is a happy birthday telegram from 'Marley' and a half of a British pound note.

Poem was printed on the back of horse race card. Poem is ironic about the lack of soldiers from other nationalities in Tobruk. - The Siege of Tobruk lasted for 241 days when Axis forces advanced through Cyrenaica from El Agheila against the Western Desert Force in Libya, during the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) of the Second World War. In 1940 the British had defeated the Italian 10th Army and trapped the remnants at Beda Fomm during Operation Compass (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941). German troops and Italian reinforcements reached Libya, while the victors were redeployed to Greece and replaced by a skeleton force, short of equipment and supplies.