Persia and Iraq Command - Order of Battle - Persia and Iraq Command 1942

Persia and Iraq Command 1942

General Officer Commanding - General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson

General Reserve troops
- 5th Indian Infantry Division - Major-General H. Rawdon Briggs
  - 9th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier W.H. Langran
  - 161st Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier D.F.W. Warren
- Polish 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division - Major-General Stanisław Kopański
- British 7th Armoured Brigade - Brigadier John Anstice
Tenth Army - Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Quinan
- Army troops
  - 6th Indian Infantry Division - Major-General J.N. Thomson
    - 27th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier A.R. Barker
    - 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
  - 31st Indian Armoured Division - Major-General Robert Wordsworth
    - 3rd Indian Motor Brigade - Brigadier A.A.E. Filoze
    - 252nd Indian Armoured Brigade - Brigadier G. Carr-White
  - 10th Indian Motor Brigade - Brigadier Harold Redman
- III Corps - Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Anderson
  - 5th Infantry Division - Major-General Horatio Berney-Ficklin
    - 13th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier V.C. Russell
    - 15th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier H.R.N. Greenfield
    - 17th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier G.W.B. Tarleton
    - 5th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
  - 56th (London) Infantry Division - Major-General Eric Miles
    - 167th (London) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier J.C.A. Birch
    - 168th (London) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier K.C. Davidson
    - 169th (London) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier L.O. Lynne
- Indian XXI Corps - Lieutenant-General Sir Mosley Mayne
  - 8th Indian Infantry Division - Major-General Charles Harvey
    - 17th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier F.A.M.B. Jenkins
    - 19th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier C.W.W. Ford
  - 10th Indian Infantry Division - Major-General Alan Blaxland
    - 20th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier L.E. MacGregor
    - 25th Indian Infantry Brigade - Brigadier A.E. Arderne

In addition, lines of communication headquarters, either designed Lines of Communications Areas or Sub-Areas or under deception titles such as 2nd Indian Infantry Division, were also ultimately responsible to the command.

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