TEXT: British 2nd Armoured Division  
   
             
        April, 1941 
  x 2 
  1st Tower 
  Hamlets 
   Rifles 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  1st 
  Royal 
  Horse 
  Artillery 
  x 10 
  4th Royal 
  Engineers 
  Squadron 
  x 4 
  x 4 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  104th 
  Royal 
  Horse 
  Artillery 
  x 6 
  1st King’s 
  Dragoon 
  Guards 
  Divisional 
  Reece 
  Regiment 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  Light 
  Anti-Aircraft 
  Battery 
  3rd 
  Hussars 
  3rd 
  Armoured 
  Brigade 
  5th 
  Battalion 
  Royal Tank 
  Regiment 
  By Greg Moore 
  gregpanzerblitz.com 
  February, 2009 
  6th 
  Battalion 
  Royal Tank 
  Regiment 
  x 3 
  x 2 
  x 6 
  x 2 
  x 9 
  x 1 
  x 3 
  x 2 
  x 3 
  x 3 
          The hard luck 2nd Armoured Division was brought in to replace the 7th Armoured after the highly 
  successful Operation Compass.  The 2nd was an inexperienced and seriously understrength formation 
  with half of its tank strength consisting of captured Italian tanks and was destroyed in Rommel’s offen-
  sive.  Some remnants escaped to Tobruk but most of the division surrendered to the Axis at Mechili on 
  April 8.  The 2nd Armoured Division was officially disbanded in May and never reformed.  
  x 3 
  x 3 
  16th 
  Australian 
  Anti-Tank 
  Company 
  (attached) 
  1st Company 
  Free French 
  Motor 
  Battalion 
  (attached) 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  C Company, 
  1st Battalion 
  Northumber-
  land 
  Fusiliers 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  J Battery 
  3rd RHA 
  Anti-Tank 
  1 company, 
  1st Frontier 
  Force 
  Motorized 
  Battalion 
  (attached) 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Panzer Leader & Panzer Blitz/1940-1943 North Africa/Operation Sonnenblume/Brit2ArmouredApril1941.pdf