Letter

Scope and Content

Letter from Lt.-Gen. N.M. [Neil] Ritchie to Auchinleck, reporting that the 8th Army has succeeded in nearly clearing the Gazala area despite enemy counter-attacks, and that [Brigadier John] Marriott's brigade has been instructed to go straight to Benghazi and to occupy it. Typescript, signed, with a holograph postscript concerning awards to RAF personnel.