Roll of Honour
The men from 3 Company listed below lost their lives at Sidi Rezegh. The level of casualties suffered in the attack on Point 175, and later on the ridge near the mosque, is put into context by this quote, at the end of The Relief of Tobruk:
'Eighth Army in its first campaign, like the French early in the First World War, fought with superb élan. The spirit of the British cruiser tank units in the opening clashes, unavailing though all too often it was for tactical and technical reasons, was magnificent. At the same time a battle designed around armour was adorned with some of the finest infantry assaults in the annals of the British Army. The attacks of the Black Watch on "Tiger" in the break-out from Tobruk and of the 60th Rifles at Sidi Rezegh, the hard fight for Point 175, and the last relentless night advance on the Mosque showed what men could do with little or nothing more than the weapons they could carry. They deserve to be remembered.'
The names in brackets are those of the Commonwealth War Cemetery where the men are buried or named on memorial plaques:
