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Alam Halfa and Alamein

Appendix I — COMMANDERS AT 23 OCTOBER 1942

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Appendix I
COMMANDERS AT 23 OCTOBER 1942

Commander-in-Chief, Middle East: General the Hon. Sir Harold Alexander

Commander, Eighth Army: Lieutenant-General B. L. Montgomery

Air Commander, Middle East: Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder

Air Commander, Western Desert Air Headquarters: Air Vice-Marshal A. Coningham

Commander, 10 Corps: Lieutenant-General H. Lumsden

Commander, 13 Corps: Lieutenant-General B. G. Horrocks

Commander, 30 Corps: Lieutenant-General O. Leese

Divisional Commanders

1 Armoured Division: Major-General R. Briggs

7 Armoured Division: Major-General A. F. Harding

8 Armoured Division: Major-General C. H. Gairdner

10 Armoured Division: Major-General A. H. Gatehouse

44 (Home Counties) Infantry Division: Major-General I. Hughes

50 (Northumberland) Infantry Division: Major-General J. S. Nichols

51 Highland Infantry Division: Major-General D. M. Wimberley

9 Australian Infantry Division: Major-General L. J. Morshead

1 South African Infantry Division: Major-General D. H. Pienaar

2 New Zealand Infantry Division: Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg

4 Indian Infantry Division: Major-General F. Tuker