{"id":18832,"date":"2025-12-09T12:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=18832"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:15:27","slug":"78th-division-in-tunisia-april-1943","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/38-irish-brigade-photographic-memories\/a-pictorial-history-from-algeria-to-austria\/tunisian-campaign-november-1942-to-may-1943\/78th-division-in-tunisia-april-1943\/","title":{"rendered":"North African Campaign – 78th Division north of Medjez, April 1943"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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(NA 1945): This shows the perilous position of Chaouach on the cliff top overlooking the valley with Medjez-el-Bab in the distance to the left of the picture. <\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 1983): German tank graveyard. The \u2018Invincible\u2019 \u2013 so they thought \u2013 6-ton Tiger tanks of the German army have been badly mauled by the First Army. These pictures show the condition of three of them after we had knocked them out (German Mk 6 tanks).<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 1990): From the area around Chaouach comes evidence of the hasty withdrawal of the enemy, these two Tommies are coming in laden with German equipment, rifles, steel helmets and respirators, etc. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 1991): The Lone Sentinel. A British Tommy on guard in a position overlooking the town of Teboursouk.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2058): A patrol of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers with an artillery officer two signalmen and a mule carrying a No. 21 wireless set bringing up the rear. The purpose of the patrol was to discover the forward O.Ps of the Germans hidden in the maze of hills. The artillery officer could then signal firing orders to his guns to prevent the enemy from escaping and to cover the patrol.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2059): All the high land west of Heidous was attacked and occupied by the Northamptons and the Lancashire Fusiliers on the morning of April 14th. In this picture taken near their new HQ on a high ridge of rock, Medjez-el-Bab can be seen in the distance.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2060): Searching out targets for our artillery a flying O.P. hovering above the ridge occupied by the Lancs Fusiliers and the Northamptons. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2061): As a direct result of the work of the flying O.P. this barrage was put down on a high ridge north-west of Heidous as infantry and tanks were creeping up to a point a half mile to the west. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2062): As a direct result of the work of the flying O.P. this barrage was put down on a high ridge north-west of Heidous as infantry and tanks were creeping up to a point a half mile to the west.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2069): Two of our tanks approaching the extremely difficult hill country.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2070): One of our tanks starts its climb into the hills. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2123): Two Churchill tanks on a road cleared by sappers, showing the type of terrain we are fighting in. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2124): Pte. Albert Hooper of Benchill, leading pack mules carrying rations to forward troops..<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2125): Unloading supplies from pack mules in an infantry position above Kelbine. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2126): Infantry resting against a craggy crest above Kelbine after they had taken the height. These pictures show the difficult ground our men are fighting over. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 2127): Infantry resting against a craggy crest above Kelbine after they had taken the height. These pictures show the difficult ground our men are fighting over. <\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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(NA 1945): This shows the perilous position of Chaouach on the cliff top overlooking the valley with Medjez-el-Bab in the distance to the left of the picture. (NA 1983): German tank graveyard. The \u2018Invincible\u2019 \u2013 so they thought \u2013 6-ton Tiger tanks of the German army have been badly mauled by the First Army. These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":18090,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18832","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18832"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19161,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18832\/revisions\/19161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}