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As rearmament of the navy and the air force continued, the nature of an army fit to participate in a European war was kept under review and in 1936, the Cabinet ordered the Chiefs of Staff Sub-Committee of the CID to provide a report on the role of an expeditionary force and the relative values of the army and the air force as deterrents for ...
At the end of March 1941, Hitler wanted the convoys supplying the British Expeditionary force in Greece stopped, and the Italian Navy was the only force able to attempt this. [45] Cunningham stated in his biography: "I myself was inclined to think that the Italians would not try anything.
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the six divisions the British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War.Planning for a British Expeditionary Force began with the 1906–1912 Haldane Reforms of the British Army carried out by the Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane following the Second Boer War (1899–1902).
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
Empire of the deep: the rise and fall of the British Navy. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-0-7538-2920-2. The British Navy from within. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1914. OCLC 3696385. The Navy List for April 1916. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1916. Vietnam to Zworykin. Encyclopedia Britannica. Chicago: Wiliam Benton. 1972.
Educated at Harrow School, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) in February 1915, [5] and served with distinction with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France during the First World War. His nickname "Strafer" was a pun on the German war slogan Gott strafe England (God punish
But at a tennis party in Cologne, he was able to persuade the Commander-in-chief (C-in-C) of the British Army of Occupation, Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, to add his name to the list. [ 41 ] After graduating from the Staff College, he was appointed brigade major in the 17th Infantry Brigade in January 1921. [ 42 ]
Nickname "Tiger" Military service; Allegiance: United Kingdom: Branch/service: British Army: Years of service: 1905–1945: Rank: Field Marshal: Commands: British Expeditionary Force Chief of the Imperial General Staff Staff College, Camberley Guards Brigade 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards 4th Battalion, Grenadier Guards: Battles/wars: First ...