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Tobruk Dinner

Sat, 25 Mar

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Adelaide

Guest Speaker: Brenton Whittle

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Tobruk Dinner
Tobruk Dinner

Time & Location

25 Mar 2023, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Adelaide, 111 Hutt Street, Adelaide SA, Australia

About the event

Battles like Tobruk, like all campaigns in major wars, were fought by armies. But armies are made up of individuals, each fighting their own war, facing their own fears and uncertain futures, creating their own memories and stories. And as different as those stories may be, everyone is important.

This is the story of one individual … Ralph Keith Linthorne Cresdee Whittle … Sgt 2/8th Field Ambulance … who despite the constant attacks by the Germans on his and his mates’ lives, managed to find the words to describe the horror, the heroism and even the humour in what we know as the Siege of Tobruk.

These will be his words, told his way, from his later recollections, but mostly from recently discovered documents and a remarkable day by day diary of his war in Tobruk. Despite all those many names …. Ralph Keith Linthorne Cresdee Whittle … he somehow…

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