Military units similar to or like 2nd Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

The main theatre in the North African campaign of the Second World War. Military operations began in June 1940 with the Italian declaration of war and the Italian invasion of Egypt from Libya in September. Wikipedia

Small volunteer professional army. Small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War. Wikipedia

Volunteer cavalry regiment of the British Army originally raised in 1797. It saw mounted and dismounted action in the Second Boer War and in World War I at Gallipoli, Salonika and in Palestine, where one of its officers won a Victoria Cross at the Battle of Buqqar Ridge and the regiment rode into Damascus with 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Wikipedia

Infantry division of the British Army that fought during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Formed in 1938 to serve in the British Mandate of Palestine during the Arab Revolt. Wikipedia

Armoured division of the British Army that saw distinguished active service during World War II, where its exploits in the Western Desert Campaign gained it the Desert Rats nickname. Formed in Egypt during 1938 as the Mobile Division and its first divisional commander was the tank theorist Major-General Sir Percy Hobart. Wikipedia

The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 when Britain and France, followed by Britain's Dominions and Crown colonies, declared war on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. Little, however, the Anglo-French alliance could do or did do to help Poland. Wikipedia