![]() ![]() The division then moved on to North Africa for the battle for Libya. "Pete" Rees when Slim was ordered to India to take command of Burma Corps, the kernel that would eventually become the Fourteenth Army. In March 1942 command of the division passed from Major-General Slim to Major-General T.W. Now in March 1942, in spite of dust was stimulating to be in what we all felt was a critical spot, waiting for the threatened German invasion of Turkey. We had a good soldierly conceit of ourselves. We could move, we could fight, and we had begun to build up that most valuable of all assets a tradition of success. We had bought our beer in Haifa and drunk it on the shores of the Caspian. We had scrambled thought skirmishes of the Iraq rebellion, been blooded, but not too deeply, against the French in Syria, and enjoyed the unrestrainedly opéra bouffe of the invasion of Persia. Command was passed in May 1941 to Major-General William "Bill" Slim when Fraser fell ill.Īs part of Iraqforce, the division first fought in Iraq, in Syria, and in Iran against forces potentially barring the road from Europe to India. The Indian 10th Infantry Division was formed in Iraq in early 1941 under Major-General W.A.K. 2.6 43rd Independent Gurkha Infantry Brigade.2.4 21st Indian Infantry Brigade (until June 1942).2.2 10th Indian Infantry Brigade (from September 1942). ![]()
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