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).
Read more about this topic: 1st Infantry Division (South Africa)
Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or served:
“The perfect female is a higher type of human being than the perfect male: and also something much more rare.—Zoological science provides the means to support this proposition.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use. When a thing has served an end to the uttermost, it is wholly new for an ulterior service. In God, every end is converted into new means.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)