Word: morshead
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Ahead of him, behind him, was his army. They were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scots who had fought and been beaten in France; the Australian 9th Division (Morshead's Marines), which had held Tobruk in an eight-month siege; the South African 1st Division, whose countrymen had surrendered Tobruk after one devastating day; New Zealanders who had fought and fled from Greece and Crete. It was a purposeful army behind an impassioned, man who was avenging Dunkirk (where he had led the 3rd Division) and all of Britain's North African defeats...
...task," explained General Leslie James ("Holy Terror'') Morshead, Commander of Tobruk, "is to drive a corridor from the perimeter [of our defenses] to the Axis road, which we hope to cut at El Duda. There we should meet the South Africans...
...horse. There is Middleton Manigault's modernistic painting of an International match; a series of Robert W. Chanler's decorations on Polo Through the Ages; George Wright's Grooming Polo Ponies; two water colors by Ivester Lloyd of a game in full tilt; spirited etchings by Morshead and George Soper...