Ninth Army (United Kingdom)

Ninth Army
9th Army formation badge.
Active1941–1945
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeField army
Part ofMiddle East Command
EngagementsSecond World War

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.