Talk:Bir Hakeim rescue

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Did you know... that in March 1916 the Duke of Westminster led a group of armoured cars on a 250 mile (400 km) round trip to rescue 92 men held prisoner at a remote desert oasis?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:17, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Replica of a Rolls Royce armoured car

... that in March 1916 the Duke of Westminster led a group of armoured cars (replica pictured) on a 250 mile (400 km) round trip to rescue 92 men held prisoner at a remote desert oasis? Source: "the Armoured Car Division, led and developed by he second Duke of Westminster ... not only were they essential to the triumph at Siwa .... but also to the rescue of the Tara prisoners on 17 March 1916 during which they were reported to have made a desert run of 250 miles in 22 hours 'without casualties and without incident'" from: Smith, Angela K.; Cowman, Krista (3 February 2017). Landscapes and Voices of the Great War. Taylor & Francis. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-351-85641-6. and "the unfortunate seamen were being held at Bir Hakeim (Abyar al Hakim), a remote oasis in the desert ... there were no casualties amongst the 92 surviving prisoners or the rescuer and the entire column, complete with the former prisoners, returned safely to British-held territory" from: Stephenson, Charles (19 December 2014). A Box of Sand: The Italo-Ottoman War 1911-1912. Tattered Flag. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-9576892-7-5.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Locust Plague of 1874

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 13:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Review follows: Article is new enough, long enough, and well-cited to reliable sources. I will have to AGF on being free of copyright violations as almost all sources are offline. The hook is cited and interesting, and verified in the article. The proposed image is freely licensed, used in the article, is ok at the size it appears for DYK, and I have verified QPQ is complete. This should be good to go. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:12, 2 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recent edits

Tidied a few typos, auto-edded, dupe wl checked, moved references to bottom of article, used sfns as I don't know how to do the other system. Nice little article. Keith-264 (talk) 16:11, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Jones 2012 is short of a page number though. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 16:47, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your edits Keith-264. I must have got Jones through Google Books and I can't find a page number. I've supplemented it with a new source now - Dumelow (talk) 10:46, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was surprised to see the page missing but your change has solved the problem. Pity about the frivolous edits but there seem to be plenty of people keeping an eye on the article. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 13:15, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

War crime

Do none of the secondary sources on this event acknowledge that the massacre of women and children is a war crime? Gabrielbodard (talk) 09:09, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There's surprisingly little written on it. I've found a new source (Wieloch 2021) that states that such killings were in contravention of the First Geneva Convention and added that - Dumelow (talk) 10:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]