British First Army order of battle, 20 April 1943
Appearance
This is the British First Army order of battle on 20 April 1943 during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II.
- British First Army
Commanded by: Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson- V Corps
Commanded by Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey - British IX Corps
Commanded by: Lieutenant-General John Crocker- 51st (Leeds Rifles) Royal Tank Regiment
- British 1st Armoured Division (Major-General Raymond Briggs)
- British 6th Armoured Division (Major-General Charles Keightley)
- British 46th Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Freeman-Attwood)
- French XIX Corps
Commanded by: Lieutenant General Marie-Louis Koëltz- Brigade Légère Mécanique (Tank Group)
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards
- Division d'Alger (Major General Pierre-Félix Conne)
- Division du Maroc (Lieutenant General Maurice Mathenet)
- Division d'Oran (Major-General Pierre-Félix Boissau)
- U.S. II Corps (co-ordinated by First Army but under direct control of 18th Army Group[1])
Commanded by: Major General Omar Bradley- Corps Franc d'Afrique (three battalions)
- 4th and 6th Tabors of Maroccan goumiers
- U.S. 1st Armored Division (less one regiment) (Major General Ernest N. Harmon)
- U.S. 1st Infantry Division (Major General Terry de la M. Allen)
- U.S. 9th Infantry Division (Major General Manton S. Eddy)
- U.S. 34th Infantry Division (Major General Charles W. Ryder)
- V Corps
See also
References
- Anderson, Lt.-General Kenneth (1946). Official despatch by Kenneth Anderson, GOC-in-C First Army covering events in NW Africa, 8 November 1942–13 May 1943 published in "No. 37779". The London Gazette (invalid
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(help)). 5 November 1946. - Playfair, Major-General I.S.O.; Molony, Brigadier C.J.C.; with Flynn, Captain F.C. (R.N.); Gleave, Group Captain T.P. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO:1966]. Butler, Sir James (ed.). The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume IV: The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. pp. 432–433. ISBN 1-84574-068-8.
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Footnotes
- ^ Anderson (1946), p. 11 "No. 37779". The London Gazette (invalid
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(help)). 5 November 1946.