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hey this is the christian o'connell show podcast uh yes on a show we was talking about this very famous story in the Second World War, about the Siege of Tobruk.

And a couple of who actually emailed the show.

And then Alex, Alex was telling us about a link in his family to this very, very famous story,

which saw the birth of the Desert Rats, who were what the SAS were originally known as in the Siege or Tobruk. Your family were involved. Yeah, so Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Moore said is my great-uncle. He commanded Tobruk. He led the 9th Division at Tobruk and later at El Amin. That is incredible.

Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?

And I send you that photo of him and...

Winston.

Winston Churchill.

Winston's got his...

It couldn't be any more Winston Churchill, the Greek commander.

He's got a cigar there.

And what a photo.

He's also affectionately got his left arm hand on your great uncle's shoulder.

Yeah. So Churchill would go and visit at the battlefield.

So that's a photo from Cairo.

How incredible. 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.

Is it? Yeah. Yeah.

Your 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 actors 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. and 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 Reginald Victoria, he was a school teacher originally, and then, and joined the army and went over to...

How old was he was he when he joined the army?

Was he just young.

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