COMMANDED by Hauptmann Seeböhm. This wireless intercept/ signals company was undoubtably the reason behind many of Rommel's successes in North Africa.

The company was comprised of many English speaking operators. They were expert in interpreting English jargon and exploited many security deficiencies in Allied wireless communications.

Rommel was to lose this invaluable unit much later in the war. It was overrun by the 2/24 Australian Infantry Battalion at Tel el Eisa, Egypt on 10 July 1942. Seeböhm was mortally wounded in the encounter. Captured intercept material proved how lax the Allies had been in radio security procedures.