Letter

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Letter from Brigadier J. [John ('Jock')] Whiteley, 8th Army's BGS (Brigadier General Staff), in reply to AUC/796 above, in the absence of Lt.-Gen. [Neil] Ritchie, giving reasons for the past and present disposition of troops and future plans to place the two armoured divisions under the command of 30th Corps near Sidi Rezegh. With a diagram entitled 'Redistribution of troops, Eighth Army'. Typescript, signed, with a holograph postscript, dated 14 April, giving the latest news of preparations for an attack on Segnali.