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Centered in Malaya, the British Far East Command had responsibility for land forces in all British possessions east of India.
| Far East Command (Brooke-Popham; at Fort Canning) | |||||
| Burma Command (McLeod; at Rangoon) | |||||
| 1 Glosters Battalion | |||||
| 3 Burma Rifles Battalion | |||||
| 1 Burma Division (Scott; at Toungoo) | |||||
| 1 Burma Brigade |
Willmott places this brigade in the Shan States | ||||
| 2 Burma Brigade (at Tavoy) | Scattered all over the Tenasserim airfields | ||||
| 13 Indian Brigade (at Mandalay) | Army reserve |
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| 16
Indian Brigade (at Tavoy) |
Just completing movement to
Burma when war broke out |
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| Malaya Command (Percival) | Total of 89,000 men, of which 20,000 were British, 15,200 Australian, 44,000 Indians, and 9800 presumably Malay. Organized into 31 battalions,suggesting the 10 brigades below at 3 battalions each plus 1 more in the Malay garrison force. Attached: a platoon of the Hong Kong and Singapore Artillery with a single 6" gun at Christmas Island | ||||
| Singapore Fortress Division | |||||
| III Corps (Heath; at Kuala Lumpur) | |||||
| 9 Indian Division (Barstow; at Kuantan) | |||||
| 8 Indian
Brigade (Kota Baharu)
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Had
some relatively well-trained Dogra troops and was likely the only overstrength unit in the command. |
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| 12 Indian Brigade (at Port Dickson) | GOC reserve. Best-trained unit in Malaya. | ||||
| 22 Indian Brigade (at Kuantan) |
Understrength |
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| 11 Indian Division (Murray-Lyon; at Jitra) | 6 and 15 Indian Brigades |
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| 28 Indian Brigade (at Ipoh) | |||||
| 5/14 Punjab Battalion (at George Town) | |||||
| 3 SSVF (at George Town) | Fortress unit | ||||
| 2/15 Punjab Battalion (at Kuching) | Only
British effectives in Borneo. One
company at Miri. |
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| Hong Kong Command (Maltby) | |||||
| Hong Kong Volunteer Defense Corps | Militia | ||||
| Kowloon Brigade (at Kowloon) | 2 Royal Scots, 5/7 Rajput, and 2/14 Punjab battalions with no supporting elements. | ||||
| Hong Kong Brigade (at Hong Kong) | 1 Middlesex, Winnipeg Grenadier, and Royal Rifles of Canada battalions with no supporting elements. | ||||
References
http://www.freeport-tech.com/WWII (accessed 2002; now defunct)
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