Posts Tagged ‘Bou Arada’
FDR’s 1943 journey to Casablanca and the decision to invade Sicily
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the press conference following the end of the Casablanca conference in Hotel Anfa on 24 January 1943 On 9 January 1943, President Roosevelt at the start of the tenth year as America’s head of state boarded his special train at Washington DC’s Union Station and headed north.…
Read MoreThe London Irish officer killed in Tunisia who lost two brothers in the Great War
On 20 January 1943, Captain Sydney Montrose Ekin was walking in the footsteps of two brothers who had fought and died in the First World War when he crossed the attack Start Line on the Bou Arada to Goubellat road, 50 miles south west of Tunis, A Cambridge University law graduate who had been commissioned…
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