British First Army order of battle, 4 May 1943

This is an outline order of battle of the British First Army on 4 May 1943 during the Tunisia Campaign of World War II.

First Army
Commanded by: Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson
- V Corps
  Commanded by Lieutenant-General Charles Walter Allfrey
  - North Irish Horse
  - 7eme Régiment de Tirailleurs Algériens
  - 1st Army Group Royal Artillery
  - 46th Infantry Division (less 139th Brigade Group)
  - 78th Infantry Division
- IX Corps
  Commanded by: Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
  - 25th Tank Brigade (less two battalions)
  - 201st Guards Brigade
  - 2nd Army Group Royal Artillery
  - 4th Infantry Division
  - 4th Indian Infantry Division
  - 6th Armoured Division
  - 7th Armoured Division
- XIX French Corps
  Commanded by General Koeltz
  - One Tank Battalion
  - Division d'Algers
  - Division du Maroc
  - Division d'Oran
- II US 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)
  - One Tabor Moroccan Goumiers
  - U.S. 13th Field Artillery Brigade
  - U.S. 2626th Coast Artillery Brigade
  - 1st Armored Division (less one regiment)
  - 1st Infantry Division
  - 9th Infantry Division
  - 34th Infantry Division
- Army Reserve

Footnotes

↑ Anderson (1946), p. 11 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 37779. p. 5459. 5 November 1946. Retrieved 2008-05-01.

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. pp. 5449–5464. 5 November 1946. Retrieved 2008-04-23.
Playfair, Major-General I. S. O.; Molony, Brigadier C. J. C.; with Flynn, Captain F .C. (RN) & Gleave, Group Captain T. P. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO:1966]. Butler, Sir James, ed. The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa. History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. IV. Uckfield, UK: Naval & Military Press. p. 446. ISBN 1-84574-068-8.

World War II

Participants

Allies (leaders)	Australia Belgium Brazil Canada China Cuba Czechoslovakia Denmark Ethiopia France Free France (from June 1940) Greece India Italy (from September 1943) Luxembourg Mexico Netherlands New Zealand Norway Philippines (Commonwealth) Poland South Africa Southern Rhodesia Soviet Union United Kingdom United States Puerto Rico Yugoslavia

Axis and Axis-aligned (leaders)	Albania Bulgaria Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China Independent State of Croatia Finland Germany Hungary Free India Iraq Italy (until September 1943) Italian Social Republic Japan Manchukuo Philippines (Second Republic) Romania Slovakia Thailand Vichy France Armed neutrality

Resistance	Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czech lands Denmark Estonia Ethiopia France Germany Greece Hong Kong Italy Japan Jewish Korea Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland Anti-communist Romania Thailand Soviet Union Slovakia Western Ukraine Vietnam Yugoslavia Monarchists

Timeline

Prelude	Africa Asia Europe

1939	Poland Phoney War Winter War Atlantic Changsha China

1940	Weserübung Netherlands Belgium France Armistice of 22 June 1940 Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Baltic States Moldova Indochina Greece Compass

1941	East Africa Yugoslavia Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union (Barbarossa) Finland Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor The outbreak of the Pacific War Hong Kong Philippines Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–42)

1942	Burma Changsha Java Sea Coral Sea Gazala Dutch Harbor Attu (occupation) Kiska Midway Rzhev Blue Stalingrad Singapore Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch

1943	Tunisia Kursk Smolensk Solomon Islands Attu Sicily Cottage Lower Dnieper Italy Armistice of Cassibile Gilbert and Marshall Islands Changde

1944	Monte Cassino / Shingle Narva Korsun–Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Normandy Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Hungary Leyte Ardennes Bodenplatte Philippines (1944–45) Burma (1944–45)

1945	Vistula–Oder Iwo Jima Western invasion of Germany Okinawa Italy (Spring 1945) Syrmian Front Berlin Czechoslovakia Budapest West Hunan Surrender of Germany Project Hula Manchuria Manila Borneo Taipei Atomic bombings Debate Kuril Islands Shumshu Surrender of Japan End of World War II in Asia

Aspects

General	Air warfare of World War II Blitzkrieg Comparative military ranks Cryptography Diplomacy Home front United States Australian United Kingdom Lend-Lease Manhattan Project Military awards Military equipment Military production Nazi plunder Opposition Technology Allied cooperation Total war Strategic bombing Bengal famine of 1943 Chinese famine of 1942–43 Puppet states Women Art and World War II

Aftermath	Expulsion of Germans Operation Paperclip Operation Osoaviakhim Operation Keelhaul Occupation of Germany Territorial changes of Germany Soviet occupations Romania Poland Hungary Baltic States Occupation of Japan First Indochina War Indonesian National Revolution Cold War Decolonization Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany Popular culture

War crimes	Allied war crimes Soviet war crimes British war crimes United States war crimes German (Forced labour) / Wehrmacht war crimes Holocaust Aftermath Response Prosecution Italian war crimes Japanese war crimes Unit 731 Prosecution Croatian war crimes against the Serbs against the Jews Serbian war crimes

Wartime sexual violence	German military brothels Camp brothels Rape during the occupation of Japan Comfort women Rape of Nanking Rape during the occupation of Germany Rape during the liberation of France Rape during the liberation of Poland

Prisoners	Finnish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union German prisoners of war in the United States Italian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Japanese prisoners of war in World War II German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war Polish prisoners of war in the Soviet Union Romanian prisoners of war in the Soviet Union

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British First Army order of battle, 4 May 1943

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