Posted: April 9th, 2006, 7:00am PDT
Between April and August 1941 up to 14,000 Australians, under the command of Lieutenant-General Leslie Morshead were besieged in Tobruk by a German-Italian army commanded by General Erwin Rommel. By the end of the seige in December, Australian casualties were 3,009 killed or wounded and 941 taken prisoner.