When a Fighting French force reoccupied Bir Hacheim, in the Cyrcnaican desert, a cablegram reports, they found the skeletons of their comrades scattered across the desert, where the/ Italians and Germans had left them in more than 80 unburied heaps. A Foreign Legionnaire lieutenant-colonel superintended the burial of the dead, which included his son. Fighting French .troops last June made a costly stand on the desert, outcrop of Bir Hachcim, where they were encircled and overpowered on the Allied left flank in the battle of Cyrenaica, which Rommel won mainly by his defeat of the tank force in the north.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1942, Page 3
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