MINI: Fame In The Family

The Christian O’Connell Show

GOLD and iHeart Australia

Music, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Music Interviews

4.7 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Alex shares his family link to the Siege of Tobruk, which sparks listeners to call in for "What's Your Fame In The Family?"

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0:00.0	IHart Podcasts. You can hear more. Gold 104.3 podcast, playlist, and listen live on the free IHart app.
0:08.6	Yes on a show we were talking about this very famous story in the Second World War about the Siege of Tobruk.
0:15.2	And a couple of you actually emailed the show. And then Alex, Alex was telling us about a link in his family to this very,
0:23.1	very famous story which saw the birth of the Desert Rats, who are what the SAS were
0:28.0	originally known as in the Siege or Tobruk. Your family were involved. Yeah. So Lieutenant
0:34.2	General Sir Leslie Moore said is my great uncle. He commanded Tobruk.
0:42.3	He led the 9th Division at Tobruk and later at El Amain.
0:43.8	That is incredible.
0:44.9	Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
0:46.9	And I send you that photo of him and... Winston.
0:47.5	Winston Churchill.
0:48.4	Winston's got his...
0:50.0	It couldn't be any more Winston Churchill, the great commander.
0:52.7	He's got cigar there.
0:53.8	And what a photo. He's got cigar there, and what a photo.
0:55.1	He's also affectionately got his left hand on your great uncle's shoulder.
1:01.1	Yeah, so Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield.
1:05.5	So that's a photo from Cairo.
1:08.6	How incredible.
1:09.4	What a snapshot of history for your family. It's crazy, isn't it? Yeah, it's up at the Australian War Memorial, that particular photo. Yeah, yeah. You're a great uncle, then. I can see as well. Obviously, I'm looking at all his rankings as well. So he must have done a lot of active services. Fairly. Very decorated. Yeah, he's captain at Gallipoli and the Western Front. Wow. Yeah, and there's a very famous photo of him at Lone Pine. He's looking up onto the trench and there's just littered with bodies. A really, really moving kind of sad photo. And it's him there just looking up. And then the one I sent you, the one with Churchill. but yeah, he retired in Sydney and born in regional Victoria,
1:47.5	he was a school teacher originally, and then, and joined the army and went over to... How old was he when he joined the army? Was he just young? My granddad fought in the second war. He was 16. He lied about his age. He was actually 14. Wow. He was in his early 20s and became a captain at 25.
2:01.4	Yeah, they were just young guys.
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