Baggush Box

Baggush Box
Part of Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
Maaten Baggush
Near Mersa Matruh in Egypt
Men of the 20th Battalion, part of the 4th Infantry Brigade of the 2nd New Zealand Division, marching in Baggush, Egypt, September 1941.
Location
Coordinates31°10′21″N 27°40′10″E / 31.17250°N 27.66944°E / 31.17250; 27.66944

The Baggush Box was a British Army field fortification built in the Western Desert near Maaten Baggush, 35 miles (56 km) east of Mersa Matruh during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

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