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.
View on map Fought in Western Desert campaign Wikipedia
Movements
- June 17, 1940 Western Desert campaign Mersa Matruh Map
- December 9, 1940 Operation Compass Operation Compass begins Map
- December 10–11, 1940 Battle of Sidi Barrani
- January 22, 1941 Tobruk taken Map
- February 6–7, 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm
- February 7, 1941 Beda Fomm Map
- April 14, 1941 Back on the Egyptian frontier Map
- June 15, 1941 – September 26, 1941 Operation Battleaxe fails Map