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. The Ninth Army controlled British and Commonwealth land forces stationed in the eastern Mediterranean.
Commanders General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson (October 1941 – September 1942) Lieutenant-General Sir William George Holmes (September 1942 – February 1945)
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