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This is the [[order of battle]] for [[Operation Brevity]], a [[World War II]] battle between the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Commonwealth]] and the European [[Axis Powers]] of [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] and [[Kingdom of Italy (1861–1946)|Italy]] in [[North Africa]] between May 15–16, 1941.

==British Commonwealth forces==
General Officer, [[Middle East Command|Commanding in chief, Middle East Command]] - [[General (United Kingdom)|General]] [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|Archibald Wavell]]

HQ [[Western Desert Force]] - [[Lieutenant-General]] [[Noel Beresford-Peirse]]

Operational command - [[Brigadier]] [[William Gott]]

The British and Commonwealth force were drawn mainly from the [[7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)|7th Armoured Division]]'s, [[7th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)|7th Armoured Brigade]] and [[7th Support Group (United Kingdom)|7th Support Group]] and from the independent [[22nd Guards Brigade]]. They were organised into three groups:

*Coast Group
**2nd battalion [[The Rifle Brigade]] (minus one company)
**Mortar support, 3rd battalion [[Coldstream Guards]]<ref>Howard, p. 75</ref>
**5th Australian Anti-tank Battery, 2/2nd Australian Anti-Tank Regiment ([[Ordnance QF 2 pounder|2 Pounder Anti Tank guns]])
**8th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery ([[Ordnance QF 25 pounder|25 Pounder Field guns]])
*22nd Guards [[Brigade group]]
**1st battalion [[Durham Light Infantry]]
**2nd battalion [[Scots Guards]]
**3rd battalion [[Coldstream Guards]]<ref>The battalion were a follow-up force to take possession of Halfaya Pass once it had been captured and did not take an active part in Operation Brevity other than providing mortar support to the Rifle Brigade</ref>
**[[4th Royal Tank Regiment]] (24 [[Matilda II|Matilda Mk II Infantry tanks]])
**One troop, 12th Anti-Tank Battery, 2/3rd Australian Anti-tank Regiment (2 Pounder Anti Tank guns)
*7th Armoured Brigade group
**A Company, 2nd battalion The Rifle Brigade
**[[2nd Royal Tank Regiment]] (29 Cruiser tanks<ref>6x Cruiser Mk I, 17x Mk. IIA and 7x Mk. IVA (one of these thirty tanks was in repair in a field depot and didn't see action)</ref>)
**[[2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia)|6th Australian Division Cavalry]] (~28 [[Light Tank Mk VI]]B)
**7th Support Group (elements)
**[[11th Hussars]]<ref>The Hussars were on the extreme flank of the advance, according to there regimental history they manoeuvred themselves to the rear of the German-Italian positions from where they conducted reconnaissance but did not engage any targets, they then covered the withdrawal of the forces on the desert flank on the 16th</ref>([[Marmon-Herrington Armoured Car]]s)
**One troop, 12th Anti-Tank Battery, 2/3rd Australian Anti-tank Regiment (2 Pounder Anti Tank guns)

==German and Italian forces==
Supreme Commander - [[Generale d'Armata|General]] [[Italo Gariboldi]]<ref>The Commandante Superiore was Rommel's superior on paper, but not in practice.</ref>

* [[Deutsches Afrikakorps|Afrika Korps]] - [[Major General]] [[Erwin Rommel]]
**[[Kampfgruppe]] [[von Herff]]
***Reconnaissance Battalion 3
***2nd Battalion, Panzer Regiment 5
***Motorcycle Battalion 15
***Reconnaissance Battalion 33
***One [[Bersaglieri|Motorised Infantry]] Battalion, [[102 Motorised Division Trento]]
***One AA Battery ([[88 mm gun|88 mm Anti aircraft guns]])
***Two AA Platoons ([[2 cm FlaK 30|20 mm Anti aircraft guns]])
***Two [[10.5 cm leFH 18|105mm leFH Howitzer]]
*Italian Forces
**Defending the border
***Two Companies, 5th Motorised Infantry Battalion
***One Mountain Gun Battery ([[Cannone da 75/27 modello 11|Cannone da 75/27]])
***One AT Battery ([[Cannone da 47/32 M35]])
***Group Two, 24th artillery regiment
****One Field Gun Battery (12 [[Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider|Cannone da 105/28]])
**Defending [[Bardia]]
***2nd Battalion, 62nd Infantry Regiment
***One AT Battery (Cannone da 47/32 M35)
***One AA Battery (20 mm Anti aircraft guns)

Following the British attacks General Rommel ordered the following force, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Crammer, to the frontier to defeat the British.

*1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 8
*One Flak battery

During the morning of May 16, Rommel ordered further forces to the frontier.

*Kampfgrppe [[Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck|von Esebeck]]
**Schuetzen Regiment 200
***One battalion
**1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 5
***Medium tank Company (minus one platoon)
**One [[Panzerjäger]] Company
**One artillery battalion (minus one battery)

==See also==
{{Portal|World War II}}
*[[List of orders of battle]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book| first=Dudley|last=Clarke|authorlink=| series=| title=The Eleventh At War: Being The Story Of The XIth Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) Through The Years 1934-1945|publisher=Michael Joseph | year=1952| origyear=| isbn=}}
* {{cite book| first=David |last=Erskine| title=The Scots Guards 1919-1955| publisher=DNaval & Military Press Ltd| year=2001| origyear=1956 | isbn=1-84342-061-9}}
* {{cite book| first=Major R.H.W.S.|last=Hastings|authorlink=| series=| title=The Rifle Brigade In The Second World War 1939-1945|publisher=Gale & Polden | year=1950| origyear=}}
* {{cite book|first=Michael|last=Howard| authorlink=|author2=Sparrow, John| series=| title=The Coldstream Guards, 1920-1946| publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1951| origyear=| isbn=}}
* {{cite book|authorlink=| first=Thomas L.| last=Jentz| title=Tank Combat In North Africa: The Opening Rounds, Operation Sonnenblume, Brevity, Skorpion and Battleaxe, February 1941 - June 1941| publisher=Schiffer Publishing Ltd| year=1998| location=| origyear=| isbn=0-7643-0226-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Maughan| first=Barton| url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1070202/|title=Official History of Australia in the Second World War Volume III – Tobruk and El Alamein. Chapters 4 - 9| series=Series 1 - Army|year=1966| origyear=| publisher=Australian War Memorial| location=Canberra|pages=}}
*{{cite book| first=Major General I.S.O. |last=Playfair| authorlink=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair|author2=others| series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series, Official Campaign History| title=The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume II The Germans come to the help of their Ally (1941)| publisher=Naval & Military Press| year=2006| origyear=1954| isbn=1-84734-427-5}}
*{{cite book| first=Erwin |last=Rommel |authorlink=Erwin Rommel|author2=Liddell Hart, Basil (editor) |authorlink2=Basil Liddell Hart | title=The Rommel Papers| publisher=Da Capo Press| year=1982| origyear=1953 | isbn=0-306-80157-4}}
*{{cite book|last=Government of India |authorlink=| title=The Tiger Kills: The Indian Divisions in the North African Campaign, 1941-1943| publisher=Military Library Research Service Ltd | year=2004| origyear=1944 | isbn=}}
*{{cite book|last=Government of India |authorlink=| title=The Tiger Strikes| publisher=| origyear= | isbn=}}
*{{cite book| first=Major-General Sir Hereward|last= Wake|authorlink=|author2=Deeds, W.F. |authorlink2=Bill Deedes | series=|
title=Swift and bold: The story of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the Second World War 1939-1945|publisher=[[Gale & Polden]] | year=1949| origyear=}}
*{{cite book| first=S.G.P.|last=Ward |authorlink=|author2=Poett, Nigel| title=Faithful: The story of the Durham Light Infantry| publisher=Naval & Military Press Ltd | year=2005| origyear=1963 | isbn=1-84574-147-1}}

==External links==
* {{cite web|url=http://sonic.net/~bstone/archives/010318.shtml|title=Operation Brevity Order of battle extracted from "The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History; Supplement One: Orders of Battle, 1939-1941" posted on this site as part of the book review| last=Ryan| first=David A}}(however, not all formations on this order of battle actually took part in the fighting)

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