Paper: Organisation of an Infantry Division on a Battle Group Basis.
Headed, ‘Rear HQ Eighth Army MEF’, dated 21 Jun 1942.
Marked, ‘Most Secret’.
A battle group was to consist of an infantry battalion, a battery of 25 pdrs and ancillary troops.
One of four reports drawn up at General Headquarters, Cairo, June to August 1942.
Reacting to and analysing the British defeats of the summer in the Western Desert.
Associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943).