8th Support Group (United Kingdom)

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8th Support Group
Active	1940 - 1943
Country	Great Britain
Branch	British Army
Type	Armoured Support Group
Role	Infantry, Artillery Formation
Size	Brigade
Part of	8th Armoured Division

The 8th Support Group was a brigade size formations attached to the 8th Armoured Division , composed of regular British Army units. The Support Group as part of 8th Armoured Division was sent to North Africa but never saw active service as a complete formation. As the division could not be provided with a lorried infantry brigade it was broken up and ^[1]was finally disbanded in Egypt on 1 January 1943.

Following the Second Battle of El Alamein a plan was put forth to use the remains of the division as a, self contained pursuit force to dart forward into the German-Italian rear as far as possibly Tobruk however the plan to use the division was shelfed and units in the forward area were used instead ^[2].