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During the Second World War thousands of New Zealanders and Australians served in North Africa in battlefields from Egypt to Tunisia.
Many of these battles, including El Alamein, the Siege of Tobruk and the fierce fighting around Sidi Rezegh have become landmark events in the histories of both countries. The battens of North Africa are regarded as some of the most crucial and strategic in the entire Second World War. Today, many thousands of Kiwis and Aussies lie buried in the sands of Libya and Egypt, a long way from home.
Although visiting Egypt’s battlefields and cemeteries has long been relatively straightforward, the important wartime sites and graveyards in Libya have always been much harder to reach…that is until now.
Today, Libya is offering a warm welcome to tourists and travel there has become very straightforward. As a result an increasing number of people interested in the North African Campaign, including many people who have family connections with those buried in war cemeteries in Libya have started to visit.
Libya’s Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries are immaculately kept and to walk among the memorials to the fallen are a deeply moving experience for all who visit. We can arrange visits to any or all of these cemeteries along with battlefield tours and even a visit to the site of Rommel’s bunker in Tobruk.
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