British First Army order of battle, 20 April 1943
This is an outline order of battle of the British First Army on 20 April 1943 during the Tunisia Campaign.
- British First Army
Commanded by: Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson- V Corps
Commanded by Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey- British 25th Tank Brigade (less 51st Royal Tank Regiment)
- British 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Walter Clutterbuck)
- British 4th Infantry Division (Major-General John Hawkesworth)
- British 78th Infantry Division (Major-General Vyvyan Evelegh)
- British IX Corps
Commanded by: Lieutenant-General John Crocker- 51st 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 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37779. p. 5449. 5 November 1946. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
- 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.
Footnotes
- ↑ Anderson (1946), p. 11 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37779. p. 5459. 5 November 1946. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
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