The Run for Tunis was part of the Tunisia Campaign which took place during November and December 1942 during the Second World War. Once French opposition to the Allied Operation Torch landings had ceased in mid-November, the Allies made a rapid advance by a division-sized force east from Algeria, to capture Tunis and forestall an Axis build up in Tunisia and narrowly failed. Some Allied troops were fewer than 20 miles (32 km) short of Tunis by late November but the defenders counter-attacked and pushed them back nearly 20 miles (32 km), to positions which had stabilised by the end of the year.
Run for Tunis
78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 78th Infantry Division, also known as the Battleaxe Division, was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during the Second World War that fought, with great distinction, in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy from late 1942–1945.
Men of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment on patrol with a dog, used to carry messages and for guard duties, Tunisia, December 1942.
Private Stephens of the 5th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment rides a captured German motorcycle combination, Tunisia, 14 January 1943.
4.2-inch mortar of the 1st Battalion, Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, 78th Division, in action near Adrano, Sicily, 6 August 1943.
Men of the 6th Battalion, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment in a dugout on Monastery Hill at Monte Cassino, Italy, 26 March 1944.