Wallet 17 of 150 - Papers relating to the 17 Infantry Brigade and its operations in Libya, 1940-1941

Savige, Sir Stanley George (Lieutenant General, b.1890 - d.1954)

Places	Africa: North Africa, Libya Africa: North Africa, Libya, Agedabia Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Barce Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Bardia Area, Bardia Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, El Agheila Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk
Accession Number	AWM2020.22.275
Collection number	3DRL/2529
Collection type	Digitised Collection
Record type	Wallet
Item count	1
Object type	Diary, Letter, Map, Papers
Physical description	183 Image/s captured
Maker	Various
Place made	North Africa: Libya
Date made	1940-1941
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Source credit to	This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.

Description

Collection relating to the Second World War service and post-war career of VX13 Lieutenant General Stanley Savige, KBE, CB, CBE, MC, DSO, II Corps (formerly 17 Infantry Brigade, 3 Division, I Corps and New Guinea Force), 1940-1954.

Wallet 17 of 150 – Wallet consists of a corpus of copies and Photostat copies of documents relating to the situation in Libya from September 1940 to April 1941 and the operations of Lieutenant General Stanley Savige’s 17 Australian Infantry Brigade during that period. The wallet comprises a series of reports and comments on the battles of Tobruk and Bardia in January 1941 (lists of captured Italian officers, vehicles and weapons…) and on the 17 Infantry Brigade and its companies (deficiencies in war equipment and stores, reconnaissance, efficiency of K section, operations at Bardia and Tobruk…) along with maps (fortified works on the Bardia perimeter, proposed routes to Bardia, dispositions and movements of troops at Bardia and Tobruk…). Included is a translated message from Mussolini to General Bergonzoli dated 22 December 1940 on the importance of Bardia for Italy, with Bergonzoli’s response. Further items in the wallet include notes, maps, correspondence and reports relating to operations in Barce, Agedabia and El Agheila dated February-March 1941. The wallet also comprises extracts of Savige’s war diary on operations in Libya in February 1941.