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This is the [[order of battle]] for the [[Syria–Lebanon campaign]], a [[World War II]] campaign between the [[Allies of World War II|Western Allies]] and [[Vichy France]] during June and July, 1941.

==Allied forces==

Commander-in-Chief<ref>Playfair Vol. 1, p. 63</ref> [[Middle East Command]]: General Sir [[Archibald Wavell]]<br>General Officer Commanding Palestine and Trans-Jordan: General Sir [[Henry Maitland Wilson|H. Maitland Wilson]]

===South Syria and Lebanon – Australian I Corps (from 18 June)===
[[File:AWM 008249 2 14th Bn refs Syria 1941.jpg|thumb|Australian troops from the 2/14th Infantry Battalion]]
General Officer Commanding [[I Corps (Australia)|I Corps]]: Lieutenant-General [[John Lavarack]]
* [[7th Division (Australia)|Australian 7th Division]] – Major-General John Lavarack (until 18 June) then Major-General [[Arthur Samuel Allen|Arthur "Tubby" Allen]]
** Divisional Troops
*** [[2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia)|6th Division Cavalry]]
*** [[2/9th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia)|9th Division Cavalry]]
*** [[2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion (Australia)|2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion]]
*** The [[Royal Scots Greys]] and [[The Staffordshire Yeomanry]] (composite mechanised regiment detached from [[1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom)|British 1st Cavalry Division]])
*** One squadron, [[1st The Royal Dragoons|The Royals]] (detached from 1st Cavalry Division )
*** C battalion [[British Commandos#Middle East|Special Service Brigade]] (commandos based in Cyprus for seaborne landings)<ref>Playfair (1956), pp. 204 & 206</ref>
** Artillery (Brigadier [[Frank Horton Berryman|F. H. Berryman]])
*** [[2/4th Field Regiment (Australia)|2/4th Field Regiment]]
*** [[2/5th Field Regiment (Australia)|2/5th Field Regiment]]
*** [[2/6th Field Regiment (Australia)|2/6th Field Regiment]]
*** [[2/2nd Anti-Tank Regiment (Australia)|2/2nd Anti-tank Regiment]]
*** 57 Light Anti-aircraft Regiment
** [[21st Brigade (Australia)|21st Australian Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Jack Stevens|J E S Stevens]])
*** [[2/14th Battalion (Australia)|2/14th Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/16th Battalion (Australia)|2/16th Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/27th Battalion (Australia)|2/27th Infantry Battalion]]
** [[25th Brigade (Australia)|25th Australian Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Alfred Richard Baxter-Cox|A. R. Baxter-Cox]] until 22 June, Brigadier E.C.P. Plant thereafter))
*** [[2/25th Battalion (Australia)|2/25th Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/31st Battalion (Australia)|2/31st Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/33rd Battalion (Australia)|2/33rd Infantry Battalion]]
** [[17th Brigade (Australia)|17th Australian Brigade]] (from 28 June) (Brigadier [[Stanley Savige|S. G. Savige]])
*** [[2/3rd Battalion (Australia)|2/3rd Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/5th Battalion (Australia)|2/5th Infantry Battalion]]
*** [[2/2nd Pioneer Battalion (Australia)|2/2nd Pioneer Battalion]]
* 'Gentforce' (command activated 12 June until 18 June) – Major-General [[Paul Legentilhomme|P L Legentilhomme]] (wounded 12 June and succeeded by Brigadier [[Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd|W. L. Lloyd]] until 18 June)
* [[6th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|British 6th Infantry Division]] (activated 18 June) – Major-General [[John Fullerton Evetts|J. F. Evetts]]
** [[16th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|British 16th Infantry Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Cyril Lomax|C. E. N. Lomax]]) from 20 June
*** 2nd Battalion, [[King's Own Royal Regiment]]
*** 2nd Battalion, [[Leicestershire Regiment]]
*** 2nd Battalion, [[Queen's Royal Regiment]]
** [[23rd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|British 23rd Infantry Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Alexander Galloway|A. Galloway]]) from 29 June
*** 1st Battalion, [[Durham Light Infantry]]
*** [[Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion]]<ref>Stehlik (2009), p. 46</ref>
*** 4th Battalion, [[Border Regiment]]
** [[5th Indian Infantry Brigade]] (Brigadier W L Lloyd) (Lieut.-Col. L. B. Jones of 4/[[6th Rajputana Rifles]] while Lloyd commanded Gentforce)<ref>Playfair (1956), p. 212</ref>
*** 1st Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers]]
*** 3/[[1st Punjab Regiment]]
*** 4/[[6th Rajputana Rifles]]
*** 18th Field Company [[Bombay Engineer Group|Bombay Sappers and Miners]]<ref>Playfair (1956), p. 207</ref>
*** 1st Field Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]]
* [[1st Free French Division|1st Free French Light Division]] – Major-General Paul Legentilhomme
** 1st Free French Brigade (Colonel Cazaud)
*** 1st Battalion of Foreign Legion
*** 1 March Battalion
*** 3 March Battalion
** 2nd Free French Brigade (Colonel Genin)
*** 1st Battalion of Marine infantry
*** 2 March Battalion
*** 4 March Battalion
** 1st battalion of Naval Fusiliers<ref>Playfair (1956), p. 220</ref>
** 1st Moroccan Spahis group of squadron
** 1st battery field artillery (4 75 mm guns)
** 1st company of tanks (9 H39 tanks)
* Circassian Cavalry group of squadrons (453 troops) (Colonel Collet)
[[File:Circassiantroopswiththeirfrenchofficer.jpg|thumb|Circassian troops with a French officer]]

===Northern Syria===
Elements of [[Iraqforce]]:

====Advancing on the Euphrates====
* [[10th Indian Infantry Division]] – Major-General [[William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim|W J Slim]]
** [[13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]]
** 157th Field Regiment RA
** [[21st Indian Infantry Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Charles Joseph Weld|C.J. Weld]])
*** 2/[[10th Gurkha Rifles]]
*** 2/[[4th Gurkha Rifles]]
*** 4/[[13th Frontier Force Rifles]]
** [[25th Indian Infantry Brigade]] (Brigadier [[Ronald Gervase Mountain|R Mountain]])
*** 1/[[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]]
*** 2/[[11th Sikh Regiment]]
*** 3/[[9th Jat Regiment]]
*** 2/[[8th Gurkha Rifles]] (detached from [[20th Indian Infantry Brigade]])

====In northern Iraq and the "Duck's Bill" region of Syria====
Under command of HQ British Troops Iraq: Lieutenant-General Sir [[Edward Quinan]]
* [[20th Indian Infantry Brigade]] (detached from [[10th Indian Infantry Division]]) (Brigadier [[Donald Powell|D Powell]])
** 2/[[7th Gurkha Rifles]]
** 3/[[11th Sikh Regiment]]
* [[17th Indian Infantry Brigade]] (detached from [[8th Infantry Division (India)|8th Indian Infantry Division]]) (Brigadier [[Douglas Gracey]])
** 1/[[12th Frontier Force Regiment]]
** 5/[[13th Frontier Force Rifles]]

====In central Syria====
* ''Habforce'' commanded by Major-General [[John George Walters Clark|J.G.W. Clark]]
** British 4th Cavalry Brigade of the [[1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom)|British 1st Cavalry Division]] (Brigadier [[James Joseph Kingstone|J.J. Kingstone]] until 24 June, Brigadier J G E Tiarks from 29 June<ref>Long (1953), p. 441</ref>)
*** [[Household Cavalry Regiment]]
*** [[North Somerset Yeomanry]]
*** [[Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry]]
** 1st Battalion of the [[Essex Regiment]]
** [[Arab Legion|Arab Legion Mechanised Regiment]]
** 237th Battery, Royal Artillery (60th Field Regiment)
** An Australian battery of 2-pounder anti-tank guns (detached from the [[2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment (Australia)|2/1st Anti-Tank Regiment]]<ref>McKenzie-Smith (2018), p. 3090</ref>)
** 169th Light Anti-aircraft Battery

==Vichy French forces==
[[File:MS 406 fighters in Syria July 1941.jpg|thumb|French MS 406 fighters in Syria]]
The [[Army of the Levant]] (''Armée du Levant'') identifies the armed forces of [[France]] and then [[Vichy France]] which occupied a portion of the "[[Levant]]" during the "[[interwar period]]" and early [[World War II]]. In 1920, the French were given a mandate over [[Syria]] and [[Lebanon]] by the [[League of Nations]]. During this period of time, Syria was known as the [[French Mandate of Syria]] and Lebanon was known as the [[French Mandate of Lebanon]].
* South Lebanon Sector<ref>Gaujac, pp. 20–21.</ref>
** [[Saida, Syria|Saïda]] Sub-Sector
*** III/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** I/Colonial Artillery Regiment of the Levant
*** I/8th Algerian Spahi Regiment
*** II/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** I/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** I/6th African Chasseur Regiment
*** IV/[[6th Foreign Infantry Regiment|6th Foreign Legion Regiment]]
*** I/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment
*** Foreign Legion Levant Artillery Battalion
** [[Merdjayoun]] Sub-Sector
*** II/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** I/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** 1st Lebanese Chasseur Battalion
*** II/Colonial Artillery Regiment of the Levant
* South Syria Sector<ref>Gaujac, pp. 24–25.</ref>
** Direct sector control
*** 1st Metropolitan Artillery Regiment of the Levant
*** III/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment
** [[Hauran]] Sub-Sector
*** II/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment
** L'Hermon Sub-Sector
*** I/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment
** Sector Reserve
*** V/1st Moroccan Tirailleur Regiment
*** III/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** I/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment
*** III/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment
*** II/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment
*** III/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment
* Levant Cavalry
** 1st Moroccan Spahi Regiment
** 2nd March (provisional) Spahi Regiment
** 6th African Chasseur Regiment
** 7th African Chasseur Regiment
** Special Cavalry (Three companies of Méhariste, two companies of Druze, eight various companies stationed in Syria, and 20 companies of [[Circassians in Syria|Circassians]])
* Forces in central Lebanon, mid- to late-June 1941<ref>Gaujac, p. 31.</ref>
** Task Force Albord
*** I/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** II/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** 1st Lebanese Chasseur Battalion
*** III/6th Foreign Legion Regiment
*** II/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment
** Task Force Barré
*** I/6th Foreign Legion Regiment
*** II/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment
*** III/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment
*** Alep Special Artillery Battalion
*** Spahi Cavalry Battalion
** Lehr-Olive Detachments
*** I/6th African Chasseur Regiment
*** II/24th Colonial Infantry Mixed Regiment
** Task Force Rougie
*** II/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment, later replaced by the II/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment
*** II/6th Foreign Legion Regiment

==Footnotes==
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==Sources==
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book |last=Gaujac |first=Paul |title=L'Armée de la Victoire: Le réarmement, 1942–43 |volume=I |chapter=Chapter II |place=Paris |publisher=Éditions Lavauzelle |year=1984 |isbn=2-7025-0055-2 |series=Les Grandes batailles de France |language=Fr}}
* {{cite book |last=Long |first=Gavin |title=Greece, Crete and Syria |edition=1st |series=Official Histories – Second World War |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=18 |volume=II |chapter=Chapters 16–26 |publisher=[[Australian War Memorial]] |place=Canberra |year=1953 |access-date=2008-09-12 |archive-date=2007-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607014146/http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/chapter.asp?volume=18 |url-status=dead }}
* {{cite book |last=Mackenzie |first=Compton |author-link=Compton Mackenzie |title=Eastern Epic |publisher=Chatto & Windus |place=London |year=1951 |oclc=1412578}}
* {{cite book |last=McKenzie-Smith |first=Graham |author-link=Graham McKenzie-Smith |year= 2018|title=The Unit Guide: The Australian Army 1939–1945, Volume 3 |publisher=Big Sky Publishing |location=Warriewood, New South Wales |isbn=978-1-925675-146}}
* {{cite book |first1=Major-General ISO |last1=Playfair |author-link1=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair |first2=Commander GMS |last2=Stitt |first3=Brigadier CJC |last3=Molony |first4=Air Vice-Marshal SE |last4=Toomer |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=JRM |series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series |title=Mediterranean and Middle East: The Early Successes Against Italy (to May 1941) |volume=I |publisher=Naval & Military Press |place=Uckfield |year=2004 |orig-year=([[Office of Public Sector Information|HMSO]]) 1954 |isbn=1-84574-065-3 |name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book |first1=Major-General ISO |last1=Playfair |author-link1=Ian Stanley Ord Playfair |last2=Flynn |first2=Captain FC (RN) |last3=Molony |first3=Brigadier CJC |last4=Toomer |first4=Air Vice-Marshal SE |editor-last=Butler |editor-first=JRM |editor-link=James Ramsay Montagu Butler |series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series |title=The Mediterranean and Middle East: The Germans come to the help of their Ally (1941) |volume=II |publisher=Naval & Military Press |place=Uckfield |year=2004 |orig-year=(HMSO) 1956 |isbn=1-84574-066-1 |name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.orbat.com/site/history/open1/uk_invasionofsyria.pdf |format=PDF |title=British and Imperial Forces in the Allied Invasion of Syria and Lebanon: Initial Forces, June 8, 1941 |last=Rikhye |first=Ravi |year=2002 |publisher=orbat.com |access-date=2008-09-14 }}
* {{cite book |last=Stehlík |first=Eduard |year=2009 |title=The Heart of the Army, General Staff 1919–2009 |place=Prague |publisher=Ministerstvo obrany České republiky |isbn=978-80-7278-516-2 |page=46}}
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