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==Allied losses==

==Allied losses==

Some 10,000 Allied prisoners were captured during the advance to Mersa Matruh and Fuka, with 6,500 taken at Matruh and 1,600 taken at Fuka, with another 2,000 stragglers (New Zealanders and Gurkhas) rounded up soon after in the mopping up operations near Minqar Qaim and elsewhere. Large supply dumps were captured along with 40 repairable tanks.

Some 10,000 Allied prisoners were captured during the advance to Mersa Matruh and Fuka, with 6,500 taken at Matruh and 1,600 taken at Fuka, with another 2,000 stranded soldiers (New Zealanders and Gurkhas) forced to surrender in the Axis advance and mop-up up operations near Minqar Qaim and elsewhere.<ref>"It took an entire Italian corps and several weeks to round the Gurkhas up, some having got as far as Sollum on the frontier." The Second World War: A Military History, Gordon Corrigan, p. 214, Atlantic Books Ltd, 2010</ref><ref>"Among them were the entire 2/7th Gurkhas who had fought nonstop for two days until, isolated from the rest, their ammunition simply ran out ... It was a sorry tale, too, for 2/3rd and 2/8th, who had an almighty dash to reinforce positions in the western desert as Rommel advanced from Tobruk along the coast towards Egypt, heading for Alexandria ... There were many casualties and prisoners taken, although around 280 managed to escape and find their way to El Alamein, 100 miles (160 kilometres) away... " The Gurkhas, John Parker, p. ?, Hachette, 2013</ref>Large supply dumps were captured along with 40 repairable tanks.

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