Tenth Army (United Kingdom)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tenth Army was a unit of the British Army during World War II created in Iraq and formed from the major part of "Paiforce" (Persia and Iraq Force). It was active in 1942 and 1943, and then disbanded. In April 1941 British and Indian troops had been deployed to Iraq from India under the command of General Sir Edward Quinan to protect British interests, in particular oil concessions, after a coup d''etat had brought to power a government sympathetic to the Axis powers. The force was known as Iraqforce and was engaged in the Anglo-Iraqi War which took place in April and May Iraqi rebellion]] and took part in the defeat of the Vichy forces in the subsequent Syria-Lebanon campaign. Later in 1941, the force took part in the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran to prevent the Axis elements from entering Persia, and preventing the possibility of the Germans gaining control of the Iraqi and Persian oil fields. Following this Iraqforce was renamed Paiforce (Persia and Iraq force).... Mehr