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Default ORBAT British Army Foreign Stations 03.09.39. [3]

XI. The Middle East
A. Aden
HQ British Troops Aden
HQ Royal Artillery Aden
The Aden Signal Section, Royal Corps of Signals
Detachment, 8th Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery
9th (Minden) Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery
20th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers
2/5th Mahratta Light Infantry: Khormaksar
The Aden Protectorate Levies: Khormaksar
Western Aden Protectorate
Government Guards
Tribal Guards
Lahej Trained Forces
Eastern Aden Protectorate
Kathiri Armed Constabulary
Mukalla Regular Army
B. Gibraltar
The Gibraltar Signal Section, Royal Corps of Signals
3rd Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery: Gibraltar South
4th, 27th Heavy Batteries, RA; 19th Anti-Aircraft Battery, RA
HQ Royal Engineers
1st, 32nd Fortress Companies, Royal Engineers
2nd Battalion, The King's Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry
1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards
The Gibraltar Defence Force
C. Malta
The Malta Signal Company, Royal Corps of Signals
26th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (15th, 40th, 48th, 71st Anti-Tank Batteries, RA) (N.B. 40th/71st linked for a while in August 1939)
4th Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery: Tigne
6th, 10th, 23rd Heavy Batteries, RA
7th Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
10th, 13th Anti-Aircraft Batteries, RA
5th Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Malta Artillery: Delimara
6th Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Malta Artillery: Mtarfu
7th Searchlight Battery, Royal Malta Artillery: Mtarfu (Formed 5 September 1939)
16th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers
24th Fortress Company, Royal Engineers: Tigne (Included a Regular Maltese Section)
1st Battalion, The King's Own Malta Regiment: Lower St. Elmo
The Royal Malta Artillery: HQ Upper St. Elmo
1st Heavy Battery, RMA: Fort Rocco
2nd Heavy Battery, RMA: Fort Tigne
3rd Heavy Battery, RMA: Fort St. Elmo
4th Heavy Battery, Royal Malta Artillery –
Independent
The Malta Brigade
2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment: Tarxien
2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers

D. Iraq
The Iraq Levies: Habbaniya
One Company, The Iraq Levies: Basra
One Company, The Iraq Levies: Shuaiba
No. 1 Armoured Car Company, Royal Air Force: Habbaniya

E. Cyprus
The Cyprus Detachment, Royal Corps of Signals
'C' Company, 1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment: Nicosia
'D' Company, 1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters

F. The Sudan
1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment: Wadi Halfa (Arrived there 3/9/39 by boat from Egypt)
1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment M-G: Khartoum North
2nd Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment: Khartoum South
The Sudan Detachment, Royal Artillery: Port Sudan
The Sudan Defence Force: HQ Khartoum
HQ Khartoum Northern Area:
The Shendi Horse: HQ Shendi,
Northern Province Southern Area: HQ Torit
The Equatorial Corps: HQ Torit, Equatorial Province
Central Area: HQ El Obeid
The Camel Corps: HQ El Obeid, Kardofan Province
Eastern Area: HQ Gederaf
The Eastern Arab Corps: HQ Gederaf, Kassala Province (Detachment at Kassala)
Western Area: HQ El Fasher
The Western Arab Corps: HQ El Fasher, Darfur Province

XII. British Troops in Egypt
A. Alexandria
3rd Battalion, The Coldstream Guards
1st Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Marines
B. Moascar
The Canal Brigade
1st Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment (One Company at Port Said and 'C' Company at Cyprus)
C. Cairo
The Egyptian Command Signals, Royal Corps of Signals
HQ 7th Infantry Division (Enroute to Mersa Matruh)
18th Brigade and Cairo Area: HQ Abassia Barracks, Cairo
1st Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers Machine Gun (Leaving for Mersa Matruh)
1st Battalion, The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment Detachment: El Nil Barracks, Cairo
D. The Delta
The Delta Area Signal Section, Royal Corps of Signals
42nd, 54th Fortress Companies, Royal Engineers
45th Fortress Company, Regiment - ex Haifa, Palestine
19th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery: Port Said and Suez
7th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery
25th/26th, 27th/28th Medium Batteries
4th Royal Horse Artillery (Reformed on 3 September 1939) C, G, F Batteries, RHA (Less one Battery with Armoured Division (Egypt))
11th Indian Infantry Brigade: HQ Fayid
2nd Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
1/6th Rajputana Rifles
4/7th Rajput Regiment
4th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery: HQ Mena
4th, 7th, 14th, 66th Field Batteries, RA
18th Field Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners
E. Mersa Matruh
2nd Field Company, Royal Engineers
31st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
105th/119th, 116th/118th Field Batteries, RA
1st Battalion, The Buffs
2nd Battalion, The Scots Guards
1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment: El Daba (Egyptian LOC)
The Armoured Division (Egypt) - Gerwala
1st Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps: Near Wadi el Nagamish
The Armoured Divisional Signals, Royal Corps of Signals
3rd Royal Horse Artillery (D/J, M/P Batteries) RHA
Battery, 4th Royal Horse Artillery
Light Armoured Brigade (Egypt) - Gerwala
7th Hussars
8th Hussars
11th Hussars
Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt) - Gerwala
1st Royal Tank Regiment
6th Royal Tank Regiment

XIII. British Troops Palestine and Transjordan
A. Jerusalem
The Palestine Command Signals, Royal Corps of Signals
2nd Battalion, The Black Watch: Jerusalem (Detachments at Ramallah and Enab)
2nd Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
2nd Battalion, The King's Own Royal Regiment: Hebron One Company: Dier Shalar
One Company: Allar
No. 2 Wireless Company, Royal Corps of Signals
No. 2 Armoured Car Company, Royal Air Force: Jenin
B. Lydda Area
56th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Detachment, 8th Railway Company, Royal Engineers
1st Royal Dragoons: Gedera (Including 1 Squadron of 5th Dragoon Guards)
The Royal Scots Greys: Rehovath
Squadron, 4th/7th Dragoon Guards: Sarafand
2nd Battalion, The West Yorkshire Regiment: Sarafand 'D' Company: Tel Aviv
One Company each at Lydda, Bir Salim and Jaffa
C. The Defended Port of Haifa
17th Heavy Battery, Royal Artillery
D. 8th Infantry Division
12th Field Company, Royal Engineers
Detachment, 'A'/'E' Battery, 1st Royal Horse Artillery
Detachment, 'B'/'O' Battery, 1st Royal Horse Artillery
14th Infantry Brigade: HQ Nablus, Central Palestine
2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade: Nablus Fort
1st Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders: Jenin
2nd Battalion, The Queen's Regiment: Tulkarm
16th Infantry Brigade: HQ North Palestine
1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment: Nazareth-Tiberias
1st Battalion, The Welch Regiment: Safad
2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment: Acre
1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters: Haifa
E. Transjordan
The Transjordan Frontier Force: HQ Zarga
The Arab Legion: HQ Amman
The Desert Mechanized Force
The Desert Patrol: Syria-Palestine Border
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