Key Information
Reference code
DE GUINGAND 1/1
Title
Letter from Lieutenant General Alexander Galloway, 1946, about Western Desert operations, 1941-1942
Date(s)
- 1946 Jun 6 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Letter from Lt Gen Alexander Galloway, Commander 30 Corps British Army of the Rhine, to De Guingand, answering queries concerning Operation CRUSADER (8 Army Western Desert operations, Nov 1941-Jan 1942) and expressing sorrow that De Guingand could not be included in the victory march [in London] to mark the end of World War Two. Enclosed untitled torn map, (War Office, GS/GS 2957, London, 1944) on a scale 1:4,000,000, showing Western Desert Area, North Africa, annotated by Galloway.