Ninth Army (United Kingdom)

The Ninth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, formed on 1 November 1941 by the renaming of Headquarters, British Troops Palestine and Transjordan.^[1] The Ninth Army controlled British and Commonwealth land forces stationed in the eastern Mediterranean.^[2]

Commanders

General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (October 1941 – September 1942)^[3]
Lieutenant-General Sir William George Holmes (September 1942 – February 1945)^[3]

British army groups, armies, commands, and corps during the Second World War
Army Groups (list)	11th 15th 18th 21st Allied Armies in Italy
Armies (list)	British Expeditionary Force First Second Eighth Tenth Twelfth Fourteenth
Corps (list)	I I Airborne II III IV V VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XXX 1st Anti-Aircraft 2nd Anti-Aircraft 3rd Anti-Aircraft Commonwealth Western Desert Force
Commands (list)	Aden Aldershot Allied Land Forces South East Asia Anti-Aircraft British Army of the Rhine Burma Cyrenaica East Africa Eastern Egypt Far East GHQ India London Malaya Malta Middle East Northern Northern Ireland Palestine Persia and Iraq Scottish South East Asia South Eastern Southern West Africa Western
Other	ABDA Allied Force Headquarters Deception First Allied Airborne Army Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force