Operation Brevity Order of Battle - German and Italian Forces

German and Italian Forces

Supreme Commander - General Italo Gariboldi

  • Afrika Korps - Major General Erwin Rommel
    • Kampfgruppe von Herff
      • Reconnaissance Battalion 3
      • 2nd Battalion, Panzer Regiment 5
      • Motorcycle Battalion 15
      • Reconnaissance Battalion 33
      • One Motorised Infantry Battalion, 102 Motorised Division Trento
      • One AA Battery (88 mm Anti aircraft guns)
      • Two AA Platoons (20 mm Anti aircraft guns)
      • Two 105mm leFH Howitzer
  • Italian Forces
    • Defending the border
      • Two Companies, 5th Motorised Infantry Battalion
      • One Mountain Gun Battery (Cannone da 75/27)
      • One AT Battery (Cannone da 47/32 M35)
      • Group Two, 24th artillery regiment
        • One Field Gun Battery (12 Cannone da 105/28)
    • Defending Bardia
      • 2nd Battalion, 62nd Infantry Regiment
      • One AT Battery (Cannone da 47/32 M35)
      • One AA Battery (20 mm Anti aircraft guns)

Following the British attacks General Rommel ordered the following force, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hans Crammer, to the frontier to defeat the British.

  • 1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 8
  • One Flak battery

During the morning of May 16, Rommel ordered further forces to the frontier.

  • Kampfgrppe von Esebeck
    • Schuetzen Regiment 200
      • One battalion
    • 1st Battalion, Panzer Regiment 5
      • Medium tank Company (minus one platoon)
    • One Panzerjäger Company
    • One artillery battalion (minus one battery)

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