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In The Steps of The First Army, Part Three

16th April 2024 Going Postal 2433 Comments

“In the third of his articles John Alldridge writes of Medjez el Bab, a name which he says the Lancashire Fusiliers will one day carry on their regimental colours.” – Manchester Evening News, November 14 [more…]

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In The Steps of The First Army, Part Two

9th April 2024 Going Postal 2312 Comments

“In the second of his articles from North Africa, where he is re-covering the ground of the war in Tunisia, John Alldridge revives memories of the 600-mile railway journey between Algiers and Tunis. The railway [more…]

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In The Steps of The First Army

3rd April 2024 Going Postal 2025 Comments

“Seven years ago today — on November 8, 1942 — Anglo-American forces landed on the coast of French North Africa between Casablanca and Algiers. It was the beginning of a campaign which could have been [more…]

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Nightmare In Bordj Badji Mokhtar

14th September 2022 Going Postal 2974 Comments

Bordj Badji Mokhtar is an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert on the border with Mali, 1368 miles south of Algiers. As of 2008, there were 16.937 inhabitants in Bordj Badji Mokhtar. Since what I [more…]

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