 Until the Franco-Axis armistice, the French divisions in Tunisia faced the Italian 5th Army on the western Libyan border.In Libya, the (Royal Army) had about and in Egypt, the British had about with another training in Palestine.British forces included the Mobile Division (Egypt) (Major-General Percy Hobart), one of only two British armoured training formations, which in mid-1939 was renamed the Armoured Division (Egypt).