Papers relating to R A Savory’s command of 11th Indian Infantry Brigade, 1940-1941.
Includes bound transcript accounts, maps and copies of orders relating to the Brigade’s engagements and battles in the Western Desert on 15-18 June and 6-12 December 1940, at Mount Cochen on 28-31 January 1941 and outside Keren 15-17 March 1941; a folder of operations orders, intelligence summaries, manuscript and transcript letters and press cuttings relating to the Brigade’s operations, December 1940 to October 1941.
Associated with World War Two, North Africa (1940-1943).
From papers relating to Lt Gen Reginald Arthur Savory, 1911-1948.