2nd Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

2nd Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The 2nd Armoured Division was a British Army formation during the Second World War; it was created on 15 December 1939 and disbanded on 10 May 1941, after most of the division was captured at Mechili in Libya by German and Italian forces.

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