Syria–Lebanon Campaign order of battle

Allied Forces

Commander-in-Chief Middle East Command: General Sir Archibald Wavell
General Officer Commanding Palestine and Trans-Jordan: General Sir H. Maitland Wilson

South Syria and Lebanon – Australian I Corps (from 18 June)

General Officer Commanding I Corps: Lieutenant-General John Lavarack

Australian 7th Division – Major-General John Lavarack (until 18 June) then Major-General Arthur "Tubby" Allen

Divisional Troops

6th Division Cavalry

9th Division Cavalry

2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion

The Royal Scots Greys and The Staffordshire Yeomanry (composite mechanised regiment detached from British 1st Cavalry Division)

One squadron, The Royals (detached from 1st Cavalry Division )

C battalion Special Service Brigade (commandos based in Cyprus for seaborne landings)

Artillery (Brigadier F. H. Berryman)

2/4 Field Regiment

2/5 Field Regiment

2/6 Field Regiment

2/2 Anti-tank Regiment

57 Light Anti-aircraft Regiment

21st Australian Brigade (Brigadier J E S Stevens)

2/14th Infantry Battalion

2/16th Infantry Battalion

2/27th Infantry Battalion

25th Australian Brigade (Brigadier A. R. Baxter-Cox until 22 June, Brigadier E.C.P. Plant thereafter))

2/25th Infantry Battalion

2/31 Infantry Battalion

2/33 Infantry Battalion

17th Australian Brigade (from 28 June) (Brigadier S. G. Savige)

2/3rd Infantry Battalion

2/5th Infantry Battalion

2/2 Pioneer Battalion

'Gentforce' (command activated 12 June until 18 June) – Major-General P L Legentilhomme (wounded 12 June and succeeded by Brigadier W. L. Lloyd until 18 June)

British 6th Infantry Division (activated 18 June) – Major-General J. F. Evetts

British 16th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier C. E. N. Lomax) from 20 June

2nd Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment

2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment

2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment

British 23rd Infantry Brigade (Brigadier A. Galloway) from 29 June

1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry

11th Czechoslovakian Infantry Battalion

4th Battalion, Border Regiment

5th Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier W L Lloyd) (Lieut.-Col. L. B. Jones of 4/6th Rajputana Rifles while Lloyd commanded Gentforce)

1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers

3/1st Punjab Regiment

4/6th Rajputana Rifles

18th Field Company Bombay Sappers and Miners

1st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery

1st Free French Light Division – Major-General Paul Legentilhomme

1st Free French Brigade (Colonel Cazaud)

1st Battalion of Foreign Legion

1 March Battalion

3 March Battalion

2nd Free French Brigade (Colonel Genin)

1st Battalion of Marine infantry

2 March Battalion

4 March Battalion

1st battalion of Naval Fusiliers

1st Moroccan Spahis group of squadron

1st battery field artillery (4 75 mm guns)

1st company of tanks (9 H39 tanks)

Circassian Cavalry group of squadrons (453 troops) (Colonel Collet)

Northern Syria

Elements of Iraqforce:

Advancing on the Euphrates

10th Indian Infantry Division – Major-General W J Slim

13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers

157th Field Regiment RA

21st Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier C.J. Weld)

2/10th Gurkha Rifles

2/4th Gurkha Rifles

4/13th Frontier Force Rifles

25th Indian Infantry Brigade (Brigadier R Mountain)

1/5th Mahratta Light Infantry

2/11th Sikh Regiment

3/9th Jat Regiment

2/8th Gurkha Rifles (detached from 20th Indian Infantry Brigade)

In northern Iraq and the "Duck's Bill" region of Syria

Under command of HQ British Troops Iraq: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Quinan

20th Indian Infantry Brigade (detached from 10th Indian Infantry Division) (Brigadier D Powell)

2/7th Gurkha Rifles

3/11th Sikh Regiment

17th Indian Infantry Brigade (detached from 8th Indian Infantry Division) (Brigadier Douglas Gracey)

1/12th Frontier Force Regiment

5/13th Frontier Force Rifles

In Central Syria

Habforce commanded by Major-General J.G.W. Clark

British 4th Cavalry Brigade of the British 1st Cavalry Division (Brigadier J.J. Kingstone until 24 June, Brigadier J G E Tiarks from 29 June)

Household Cavalry Regiment

North Somerset Yeomanry

Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry

1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment

Arab Legion Mechanised Regiment

237th Battery, Royal Artillery (60th Field Regiment)

An Australian battery of 2 pounder anti-tank guns

169th Light Anti-aircraft Battery

Vichy French Forces

The Army of the Levant (Armée du Levant) identifies the armed forces of France and then Vichy France which occupied a portion of the "Levant" during the "interwar period" and early World War II. In 1920, the French were given a mandate over Syria and Lebanon by the League of Nations. During this period of time, Syria was known as the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon was known as the French Mandate of Lebanon.

South Lebanon Sector

Saïda Sub-Sector

III/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

I/Colonial Artillery Regiment of the Levant

I/8th Algerian Spahi Regiment

II/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

I/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

I/6th African Chasseur Regiment

IV/6th Foreign Legion Regiment

I/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment

Foreign Legion Levant Artillery Battalion

Merdjayoun Sub-Sector

II/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

I/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

1st Lebanese Chasseur Battalion

II/Colonial Artillery Regiment of the Levant

South Syria Sector

Direct sector control

1st Metropolitan Artillery Regiment of the Levant

III/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment

Hauran Sub-Sector

II/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment

L'Hermon Sub-Sector

I/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment

Sector Reserve

V/1st Moroccan Tirailleur Regiment

III/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

I/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment

III/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment

II/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment

III/24th Mixed Colonial Infantry Regiment

Levant Cavalry

1st Moroccan Spahi Regiment

2 March (provisional) Spahi Regiment

6th African Chasseur Regiment

7th African Chasseur Regiment

Special Cavalry (Three companies of Méhariste, two companies of Druze, eight various companies stationed in Syria, and twenty companies of Circassians)

Forces in central Lebanon, mid- to late-June 1941

Task Force Albord

I/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

II/29th Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

1st Lebanese Chasseur Battalion

III/6th Foreign Legion Regiment

II/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment

Task Force Barré

I/6th Foreign Legion Regiment

II/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment

III/17th Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment

Alep Special Artillery Battalion

Spahi Cavalry Battalion

Lehr-Olive Detachments

I/6th African Chasseur Regiment

II/24th Colonial Infantry Mixed Regiment

Task Force Rougie

II/16th Tunisian Tirailleur Regiment, later replaced by the II/22nd Algerian Tirailleur Regiment

II/6th Foreign Legion Regiment