Order of battle, East African campaign (World War II)

The Order of battle of the East African campaign shows the ground forces of both sides in East Africa on the date that the Italians declared war on Britain and France, 10 June 1940 and for the British and Commonwealth forces involved in the 1941 offensive.

Comando Forze Armate dell'Africa Orientale Italiana

Commander-in-Chief, Italian East African Armed Forces Command, Amedeo, Duke of Aosta[1]

Northern sector

  • Commander – Lieutenant-General Luigi Frusci
    • 3rd Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Saverio Maraventano
      • 11th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 23rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 30th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 70th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 3rd Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 4th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Livio Bonelli
      • 14th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 25th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 27th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 29th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 4th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 5th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Brigade General (Generale di Brigata) Angelo Bergonzi
      • 97th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 105th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 106th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 5th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 6th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Lieutenant-Colonel Agostino Magrini
      • 19th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 24th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 31st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 34th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 6th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 8th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Antonio Rizzo
      • 101st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 102nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 8th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 12th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Ugo Tabellini
      • 35th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 36th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 43rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 12th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 16th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Manlio Manetti
      • 22nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 23rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 47th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 53rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 16th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 19th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Enrico Durante
      • 21st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 65th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 72nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 86th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 19th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 21st Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Ignazio Angelini
      • 77th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 78th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 79th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 80th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 21st Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 22nd Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Adriano Torelli
      • 3rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 67th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 68th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 69th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 81st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 22nd Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 41st Colonial Infantry Brigade – Brigade General Ugo Fongoli
      • 98th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 99th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 131st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 132nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 41st Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 42nd Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • 43rd Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • 116th Blackshirt (Camicie Nere, CCNN) Infantry Battalion/Cohort (or Coorte)
    • 141st Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 151st Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 164th Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 166th Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 240th Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 731st Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • 745th Blackshirt Infantry Battalion/Cohort
    • Six colonial infantry battalions, two colonial cavalry battalions, two irregular colonial cavalry battalions, two garrison commands, and three batteries of 77/28 howitzers

Southern sector

  • Commander – General Pietro Gazzera
    • 1st Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Guido Pialorsi
      • 1st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 6th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 8th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 18th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 1st Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 9th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Flaminio Orrigo
      • 2nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 17th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 59th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 60th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 9th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 10th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Giuseppe Cloza
      • 28th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 55th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 181st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 187th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 10th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 18th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Bartolemeo Minola
      • 16th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 61st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 182nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 183rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 18th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 23rd Colonial Infantry Brigade
      • 80th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 88th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 89th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 23rd Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 25th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Lieutenant-Colonel Giorgio Rolandi
      • 7th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 28th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 54th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 25th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 85th Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • 86th Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • One colonial infantry battalion, four irregular colonial cavalry battalions (forming), one colonial cavalry company, and seven irregular colonial cavalry companies (forming)

Eastern sector

  • Commander – General Guglielmo Nasi
    • 40 Infantry Division "Hunters of Africa" (Cacciatori d'Africa) – General Giovanni Varda
      • 210th Infantry Regiment
      • 211th Infantry Regiment
      • 40th Artillery Regiment
      • 40th Mortar Battalion
      • 18th Colonial Mixed Engineers Battalion
      • 40th Anti-tank Company
      • 40th Medical Services unit
      • 40th Supply Services unit
    • 65 Infantry Division "Grenadiers of Savoy" (Granatieri di Savoia) – General Amedeo Liberati
      • 10th Grenadiers Regiment
        • Two battalions of grenadiers and the Uork Amba battalion of mountain infantry (Alpini)
      • 11th Grenadiers Regiment
        • Two battalions of grenadiers and one battalion of highly mobile infantry (Bersaglieri)
      • 11th Blackshirts of Africa Regiment/Legion (or Legione)
      • 60th Artillery Regiment
      • 65th Mortar Battalion
      • Savoy Grenadiers Machine Gun Battalion
      • Neghelli Colonial Cavalry Battalion
      • 65th Engineers Battalion
      • 65th Anti-tank Company
      • 65th Medical Services unit
      • 65th Supply Services unit
    • 2nd Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Orlando Lorenzini
      • 4th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 5th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 9th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 10th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 2nd Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 7th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Tiburzio Rean
      • 13th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 15th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 45th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 7th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 11th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Colonel Francesco Prina
      • 51st Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 52nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 56th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 11th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 13th Colonial Infantry Brigade – Brigade General Cesare Nam
      • 20th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 39th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 48th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 13th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 14th Colonial Infantry Brigade
      • 37th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 64th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 83rd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 14th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 15th Colonial Infantry Brigade
      • 38th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 40th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 49th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 142nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 15th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 17th Colonial Infantry Brigade
      • 42nd Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 58th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 66th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 17th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 70th Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • 1st Light Tank Company (about twelve Fiat Ansaldo L3/35 tankettes)
    • 2nd Light Tank Company (about twelve Fiat Ansaldo L3/35 tankettes)
    • 321st Medium Tank Company (about twelve Fiat M11/39 medium tanks)
    • 322nd Medium Tank Company (about twelve Fiat M11/39 medium tanks)
    • Armoured Car Company (Fiat 611 armoured cars)
    • Four colonial infantry battalions, seven colonial cavalry battalions, eighteen irregular colonial cavalry battalions (forming), two batteries of 77/28 howitzers, four batteries of 105/28 howitzers and one battery of 149/28 howitzers

Giuba sector

  • Commander – Lieutenant-General Carlo De Simone
    • 20th Colonial Infantry Brigade
      • 74th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 75th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 76th Colonial Infantry Battalion
      • 20th Colonial Artillery Battalion
      • Attached Colonial Cavalry Squadron
      • Attached Mixed Colonial Engineer Company
      • Attached Colonial Field Hospital
      • Attached Colonial Supply Column
    • 91st Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • 92nd Colonial Infantry Brigade (forming)
    • Seven colonial infantry battalions and two irregular colonial cavalry battalions (forming)

May 1941

  • Supreme Commander FF AA AOI: Generale d'Armata Pietro Gazzera[lower-alpha 1]

Total 127,000 men

(80,000 men)

  • Zona Sinistra (Left Zone) Omo: Generale Britata Antonio Tissi
  • Zona Central: Generale Ettore Scala
    • 22nd Division: Generale di Brigata Guido Pialorsi
  • Zona Dabus-Didessa: Generale di divisione Carlo de Simone
  • Zona Scacchiere Ovest/West: Generale d'A. Guglielmo Nasi

Total 17,000 Italian & 23,000 colonial troops

  • Caposaldo (Fortress) Uolchefit/Wolchefit: Lt. Colonel Gonnella (4,000 men)
  • Caposaldo Debra Tabor: Colonel Ignazio Angelini (6,000 men)
  • Piazza Gondar: Nasi (30,000 men)
  • Settore Danaclia: Generale Pietro Piacentini

2,400 Italian and 3,300 colonial troops.

  • Presidio (Garrison) Tio-Assab-Rahesta: Capitano di Fregatta Bolla

(800 men)

  • Presidio Sardo-Dobi: Colonel Umberto Raugei

(1,300 men)

  • Settore Elidar-Manda: Generale R. Aeron. Pietro Piacentini

(100 pilots)

(2,500 Italian and 3,000 colonial troops)

  • Nuclei Isolati (Independent Units):

Comando Aeronautica Africa Orientale Italiana, June 1940

Generale di Squadra Aerea Pietro Pinna[3][lower-alpha 2]

Commando Settore Aeronautico Nord, Asmara

  • 26°bis Gruppo: Gondar
    • 11° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133
    • 13° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133 (Bahar Dar converting to SM.81)[4]
  • 27°bis Gruppo: Assab K14, Dessie, LG Scenele 10 June 1940 – March 1941[5]
    • 18° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133
    • 52° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133
    • 118° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133 (converting to 6 × SM. 81)
  • 28°bis Gruppo: Zula, Gura 1940, Sciasciamanna 1941
    • 10° Squadriglia 6 × SM.81
    • 19° Squadriglia 6 × SM.81
  • 29°bis Gruppo: Assab K3, Mille, Dessie, Sciasciamanna, Yavello 1940, Bardera 1941[6]
    • 62° Squadriglia 6 × SM.81
    • 63° Squadriglia 6 × SM.81
    • 412° Squadriglia 9 × CR 42, 4 at Massawa, 5 at Gura
    • 413° Squadriglia 9 × CR 42 at Assab
    • 414° Squadriglia 6 × CR 42 at Gura
  • Gruppo Gasbarini
    • 41° Squadriglia 12 × Ca 133 at Agordat
    • Squadriglia dello Stato Maggiore del Settore Nord

Commando Tattico dell Settore Ouest, Addis Ababa

(1 August 1940, disbanded 19 August)

Generale di Brigata Aerea Collati

  • 4° Gruppo B.T. (Tenente Colonnello Branca)
    • 14° Squadriglia B.T.
    • 15° Squadriglia B.T.

12 × S 81 at Diredawa (K91, Scenele)

  • 44° Gruppo
    • 6° Squadriglia
    • 7° Squadriglia

12 × S 79 at Diredawa (K91, Chinele)

  • 49° Gruppo
    • 61° Squadriglia
    • 64° Squadriglia

12 × Ca 133 at Jimma

    • 110° Squadriglia 9 × Ro 37 bis at Diredawa
    • 410° Squadriglia 9 × CR 32 at Diredawa
    • 411° Squadriglia 9 × CR 32 at Addis Ababa
    • 65° Squadriglia 6 × Ca 133 at Neghelli
    • 66° Squadriglia 3 × Ca 133 at Yavello
    • Squadriglia dello Stato Maggiore del Settore Centrale

Commando Settore Sud, Mogadishu

  • 25° Gruppo B.T. (Maggiore Santagata)
  • 8° Squadriglia
  • 9° Squadriglia

12 × Ca 133 (6 at Gobwen, 6 at Lugh Ferrandi

    • Squadriglia dello Stato Maggiore del Settore, 7 × Ca 133 at Mogadisco (Mogadishu)
  • "I Olivetti" Airfield (All data from Nafziger 2012, unless indicated; original source: National Archives Microcopy No. T-821, Roll 144, American Historical Association Committee for the Study of War Documents, Washington, DC. 1960.)[7]

repair service Dire Dawa Airfield repair service Gimma Airfield repair service

  • 2° Transport Group R.A.
  • CRA Addis Ababa
    • 4° Principal Magazine
    • 6° M.S.A. Magazine
  • Asmara Airport

repair service

  • 1° M.S.A. Magazine
  • Squadriglia S.M.
  • Gura Airfield

repair service

  • 5° M.S.A. Magazine
  • 1° Transport Group R.A.

Massaua Airfield repair service Gondar Airfield repair service

Bahar Dar Airfield

Dessie Airfield repair service

Assab Airfield repair service

British and Commonwealth forces

Commander-in-Chief – General Archibald Wavell, Cairo

Northern front, Sudan

Southern front, Kenya

British Somaliland

British and Commonwealth forces, 1941

Commander-in-Chief – General Archibald Wavell

Northern front, Eritrea

Commander – Lieutenant-General William Platt

Southern front, Kenya

  • Commander – Lieutenant-General Alan Cunningham
    • Corps troops
      • 1 East African Armoured Car Regiment (less two squadrons)
      • 1st South African Light Tank Company
      • 1st South African Medium Brigade (1st and 2nd Medium Batteries)
      • 53rd East African Light Battery
      • 4th Rhodesian Anti-Tank Battery
    • 1st South African Division – Major-General George Brink
    • 11th African Division – Major-General Harry Wetherall
      • 21st (East African) Brigade – Brigadier Alan MacDougall Ritchie (detached to 1st South African Division from 27 February until 6 April and to 12th African Division thereafter)
        • 1/2 The King's African Rifles
        • 1st The Northern Rhodesia Regiment
        • 1/4 The King's African Rifles
        • 53rd (Gold Coast) Field Company, West African Engineers
      • 26th (East African) Brigade – Brigadier William Dimoline (detached as an independent brigade for the duration of the campaign)
        • 2/2nd Kings African Rifles
        • 4/4th Kings African Rifles
        • 3/6th Kings African Rifles
      • 23rd (Nigerian) Brigade – Brigadier Gerald Smallwood
        • 1st The Nigeria Regiment
        • 2nd The Nigeria Regiment
        • 3rd The Nigeria Regiment
        • 52 (Nigeria) Light Battery West African Artillery
        • 51 (Nigeria) Field Company, West African Engineers
      • 1st East African Armoured Car Regiment (C Squadron)
      • One platoon 1/3 King's African Rifles (Machine gun platoon)
      • Divisional Artillery
        • 7th Field Brigade (5, 17, 18 Field Batteries) South African Artillery
        • 6th Anti-aircraft Battery (one section), South African Artillery
        • 1st Anti-tank Battery, South African Artillery
      • Engineers
        • 16 Field Company, South African Engineers
    • 12th African Division – Major-General Reade Godwin-Austen
      • 22nd (East African) Brigade – Brigadier Charles Christopher Fowkes until 3 March then Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Frederick Blackden (detached to 11th African Division from 23 February to 1 March and from 12 March to 26 July)
        • 1/1 The King's African Rifles
        • 1/6 The King's African Rifles
        • 5th The King's African Rifles
        • 22 Mountain Battery Indian Artillery
        • 54 Field Company, East African Engineers
      • 25th (East African) Brigade – Brigadier W. Owen (detached to 1st South African Division until 6 April)
        • 2/3rd Kings African Rifles
        • 2/4th Kings African Rifles
        • 27 Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery
        • Detachment Somaliland Camel Corps Armoured cars
      • 24th (Gold Coast) Brigade – Brigadier Collen Edward Melville Richards
        • 1st Gold Coast Regiment
        • 2nd Gold Coast Regiment
        • 3rd Gold Coast Regiment
        • 51 (Gold Coast) Light Battery West African Artillery
        • 52nd Gold Coast Field Company, West African Engineers
      • 1st East African Armoured Car Regiment (B Squadron)
      • One company less one platoon 1/3 King's African Rifles (Machine gun)
      • Divisional Artillery
        • 1st Field Battery South African Artillery
        • 6th Anti-aircraft Battery (one section), South African Artillery
        • 2nd Anti-tank Battery, South African Artillery
      • Engineers
        • 3rd South African Field Company

British Somaliland

See also

Notes

  1. All data from Nafziger 2012, unless indicated. (Original source, National Archives Microcopy No. T-821, Roll 144, American Historical Association Committee for the Study of War Documents, Washington, DC. 1960.)[2]
  2. All data from Shores 1996 unless specified.[3]
  3. Promoted to acting lieutenant-general in August 1940[10]
  4. This section cited to Playfair (1954) unless specified. Chater was promoted to Brigadier in August.[11]
  5. Details on Gazelle Force taken from Prasad (1963) unless specified.[12]

Citations

  1. "Comando Forze Armate dell'Africa Orientale Italiana, 10.06.40". niehorster.org. Retrieved 2019-01-23.
  2. Nafziger 2012, 941IEBA.
  3. Shores 1996, p. 11.
  4. Dunning 1998, p. 58.
  5. Dunning 1998, pp. 58–59.
  6. Dunning 1998, p. 60.
  7. Nafziger 2012, 940IDAA (pp. 8–9).
  8. Playfair 1954, p. 168.
  9. Playfair 1954, p. 180.
  10. "No. 34934". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 August 1940. p. 5269.
  11. Playfair 1954, pp. 83, 98, 172.
  12. Prasad 1963, p. 160.
  13. Mackenzie 1951, p. 62.
  14. Playfair 1954, p. 172.
  15. Mackenzie 1951, p. 25.

Sources

Further reading

  • Wavell, A. (10 July 1946). "Appendices to Official Despatch: Operations in East Africa November 1940 – July 1941". London Gazette (37645). pp. 3594–3599.
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