TEXT:  Italian 17th Mot. Infantry Division (Pavia) 
  March, 1941 
  27th 
  Infantry 
  Regiment 
  x 9 
  I 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 2 
  x 6 
  x 4 
  26th 
  Artillery 
  Regiment 
  By Greg Moore 
  gregpanzerblitz.com 
  March 2009 
  x 4 
  x 3 
  Mortar 
  Company 
   
  x 3 
  Anti-Tank 
  Battalion 
  x 8 
  x 11 
  x 11 
  x 9 
  II 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 2 
  28th 
  Infantry 
  Regiment 
  x 9 
  I 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 2 
  x 11 
  x 9 
  II 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 2 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  Infantry 
  Gun 
  Company 
  x 6 
  17th 
  Mixed 
  Engineer 
  Battalion 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  x 5 
  5th 
  Light 
  Tank 
  Battalion 
  (attached
  x 5 
  6th 
  Armored 
  Car 
  Battalion 
  (attached
          The Pavia Division had been raised and shipped to North Africa to serve as part of the Libyan gar-
  rison.  During Rommel’s offensive, the Pavia Division attacked up the coastal road skirmishing with the 
  9th Australian rearguard all the way to Tobruk.  The Pavia Division then participated in the siege of To-
  bruk until the town was finally relieved in November.  The Pavia Division continued to serve in North 
  Africa until finally destroyed at El Alamein in November of 1942.  Though technically a motorized divi-
  sion, the Italians were chronically short on transport and only had enough trucks to transport half the 
  infantry battalions. 
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Panzer Leader & Panzer Blitz/1940-1943 North Africa/Operation Sonnenblume/Italian17Pavia1941.pdf