1st Infantry Division (South Africa) - Higher Formations Served Under

Higher Formations Served Under

  • 22 July 1940 – 3 May 1941: East African Field Force: General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham
  • 4 May – 31 October 1941: XIII Corps, 8th Army: Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirce (April 1941 – October 1941).
  • 1–22 November 1941: XXX Corps, 8th Army: Lieutenant-General Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie
  • 23 – 30 November 1941: XIII Corps: General Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen (October 1941 – February 1942)
  • 1 December 1941 – 1 January 1943: XXX Corps, 8th Army:
    • Lieutenant-General Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie (Nov 1941 – July 1942).
    • Lieutenant-General William Havelock Ramsden (July 1942 – Sept 1942).
    • Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese (Sept 1942 – May 1943).

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