Back to Album of 100 photos including documents and press cuttings compiled by a 9L officer attached to Sherwood Yeomanry c1940-1941
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Item 0010
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| Accession number | 912L : 2090/32 |
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Barchia . APRESE Entrance to Bardia To bruk . Chartic Cancron Tony Pepys . ach other 74 76 78 80 Mas Bardia Дая босец . stalian prisoners . Tobruk . at Bug A. G. Crnisen tank . 7.5 >> 79 81 SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY . ( NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE PRESS . ) by General Sir Archibald P. Wavell , K.C.B. , C.M.G. , M.C. , Commander - in - Chief ,. The Middle East . December 1940 . The results of the fighting in the Western Desert will be one of the decisive events of the war . A signal and crushing defeat of the Italian forces will have an incalculable effect not only on the whole position in the Middle East , not only on the military situation every where , but on the future of freedom and civilization through out the world . It may shorten the war by very many months . It must be the firm determination of every man to do every thing that in him lies without thought of self to win this decisive victory . The In everything but numbers we are superior to the enemy . We are more highly trained , we shoot straighter , we have better equipment . Above all we have stouter hearts and greater traditions and arefighting in a worthier cause . Italians entered the war treachorously and without reason Let us show because they expected a cheap and easy victory . them their mistake by inflicting on them a stern and costly defeat . The Prime Minister has sent us every wish for good fortune in this fighting and his assurance that all acts and decisions of valour and violence against the enemy will , whatever their upshot , receive the resolute support of His Majesty's Government . We have waited long in the Middle East ; when our chance comes let us strike hard . The harder blows we strike against these servants of tyranny and selfish lust of power , the sooner we shall bring peace and freedom back to the world and be able to return to our own free peaceful homes . |
