Western Desert Force
Corps · United Kingdom · June 17, 1940 – September 26, 1941
British and Commonwealth corps under Richard O'Connor that destroyed the Italian 10th Army in Operation Compass; later XIII Corps of the Eighth Army.
Recorded for Western Desert campaign.
Engagements 2
Movements
- Mersa Matruh (Western Desert campaign) · map
- Operation Compass begins (Operation Compass) · map
- Tobruk taken · map
- Beda Fomm · map
- Back on the Egyptian frontier · map
- Operation Battleaxe fails · map