Letter from Auchinleck to Gen. Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, congratulating him on his elevation to the rank of Field Marshal; and requesting that the privilege of wearing an Arabic '8' on the ribbon of the Africa Star should be extended to all who served with the 8th Army from the date of its formation, and should not be reserved for those who fought after the final advance from El Alamein, pointing out that the men who fought and broke Rommel in November and December 1941 prevented his advance into Egypt, and that soldiers who held the Germans at El Alamein laid the foundations for the final victory of the 8th Army. Typescript.
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- Dates of Creation5 Jan 1944
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