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marcbarker -> DCG Idea..southern Front in Kenya SA vs Italians (1/2/2012 1:32:47 AM)
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Here is the OOB for that. From what I read it was a moving front and battles for water. This could open up for an entire new thinking for scenarios, LCG's and DCG's
Call it the Forgotten African Front
Southern Front, Kenya
Commander - Lieutenant-General Alan Cunningham Corps troops 1 East African Armoured Car Regiment (less two squadrons)
1st South African Light Tank Company
1st South African Medium Brigade (1st and 2nd Medium Batteries)
53rd East African Light Battery
4th Rhodesian Anti-Tank Battery
South African 1st Division - Major-General George Brink 1st South African Infantry Brigade - Brigadier Dan Pienaar (detached to 12th African Division until 7 March, then 11th African Division until 9 May, then Indian 5th Infantry Division from 10 May to 22 May for Amba Alagi) 1st Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles
1st Royal Natal Carabineers
1st Transvaal Scottish
3rd South African Armoured Car Company
4th Field Brigade (10, 11, 12 Field Batteries) South African Artillery
1st Field Company, South African Engineers
2nd South African Infantry Brigade - Brigadier F.L.A. Buchanan 1st Natal Mounted Rifles
1st Field Force Battalion
2nd Field Force Battalion
2nd South African Armoured Car Company
12th Field Company, South African Engineers
5th South African Infantry Brigade - Brigadier Bertram Frank Armstrong 1st South African Irish
2nd Regiment Botha
3rd Transvaal Scottish
1st South African Armoured Car Company
5th Field Company, South African Engineers
One platoon 1/3 King's African Rifles (Machine gun platoon)
Divisional Artillery: 3rd Field Brigade (7, 8, 9 Field Batteries) South African Artillery
6th Anti-aircraft Battery (one section), South African Artillery
3rd Anti-tank Battery, South African Artillery
11th African Division - Major-General H. E. de R. Wetherall 21st (East African) Brigade - Brigadier Alan MacDougall Ritchie (detached to 1st South African Division from 27 February until 6 April and to 12th African Division thereafter) 1/2 The King's African Rifles
1st The Northern Rhodesia Regiment
1/4 The King's African Rifles
53rd (Gold Coast) Field Company, West African Engineers
26th (East African) Brigade - Brigadier William Alfred Dimoline (detached as an independent brigade for the duration of the campaign) 2/2nd Kings African Rifles
4/4th Kings African Rifles
3/6th Kings African Rifles
23rd (Nigerian) Brigade - Brigadier Gerard Russell Smallwood 1st The Nigeria Regiment
2nd The Nigeria Regiment
3rd The Nigeria Regiment
52 (Nigeria) Light Battery West African Artillery
51 (Nigeria) Field Company, West African Engineers
1st East African Armoured Car Regiment (C Squadron)
One platoon 1/3 King's African Rifles (Machine gun platoon)
Divisional Artillery 7th Field Brigade (5, 17, 18 Field Batteries) South African Artillery
6th Anti-aircraft Battery (one section), South African Artillery
1st Anti-tank Battery, South African Artillery
Engineers 16 Field Company, South African Engineers
12th African Division - Major-General Reade Godwin-Austen 22nd (East African) Brigade - Brigadier Charles Christopher Fowkes until 3 March then Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Frederick Blackden (detached to 11th African Division from 23 February to 1 March and from 12 March to 26 July) 1/1 The King's African Rifles
1/6 The King's African Rifles
5th The King's African Rifles
22 Mountain Battery Indian Artillery
54 Field Company, East African Engineers
25th (East African) Brigade - Brigadier W. Owen (detached to 1st South African Division until 6 April) 2/3rd Kings African Rifles
2/4th Kings African Rifles
27 Mountain Battery, Indian Artillery
Detachment Somaliland Camel Corps Armoured cars
24th (Gold Coast) Brigade - Brigadier Collen Edward Melville Richards 1st Gold Coast Regiment
2nd Gold Coast Regiment
3rd Gold Coast Regiment
51 (Gold Coast) Light Battery West African Artillery
52nd Gold Coast Field Company, West African Engineers
1st East African Armoured Car Regiment (B Squadron)
One company less one platoon 1/3 King's African Rifles (Machine gun)
Divisional Artillery 1st Field Battery South African Artillery
6th Anti-aircraft Battery (one section), South African Artillery
2nd Anti-tank Battery, South African Artillery
Engineers 3rd South African Field Company
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