2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion

2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion

ESTABLISHED in Kensington NSW in May 1040. The battalion left Sydney on the Queen Mary on 20 October 1940 bound for India. From there they were transferred on the Rohna to the Suez Canal.

Entered Tobruk on 9/10 April 1941.

Left Tobruk on HMS Encounter, HMS Kingston and HMS Griffin from 22-24 October 1941 for Alexandria.

Advance [1]
1-3 March	Mersa Matruh
3-4 March	Buq Buq
4-6 March	Tobruk
6-7 March	Derna
7-8 March	Tocra
8-9 March	Kilo 17
9-22 March	Mersa el Brega

Retreat [2]
23-24 March	Ghemines
24 March - 3 April	Er Regima
3-5 April	Barce
6 April	Gazala
6-9 April	Acroma
9 April	Tobruk


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	2/17 Battalion History Committee, "What we Have We Hold!", A History of the 2/17 Australian Infantry Battalion 1940-1945, Australian Military History Publications, 1998, p 24 Ibid 1, p 24

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