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Within the British military, armies were commanded by lieutenant-generals. For a variety of reasons, once the appointment was made, commanders could be promoted to a full general. [ 10 ] There were several exceptions to this norm; John Vereker was a full general when he was placed in command of the BEF, [ 11 ] as was Henry Maitland Wilson when ...
List of World War II British airborne battalions; List of British airborne brigades of the Second World War; List of British anti-aircraft brigades of the Second World War; List of British armies in World War II; List of British brigades of the Second World War; List of British colonial divisions in World War II
The size of the British Army peaked in June 1945, at 2.9 million men. By the end of the Second World War some three million people had served. [13] [7] In 1944, the United Kingdom was facing severe manpower shortages. By May 1944, it was estimated that the British Army's strength in December 1944 would be 100,000 less than it was at the end of ...
This is a list of British Brigades in the Second World War. It is intended as a central place to access resources about formations of brigade size that served in the British Army during the Second World War. List of British airborne brigades of the Second World War (includes airlanding and parachute brigades)
British army corps did not only just control British forces. On the eve of the Second Battle of El Alamein , the Eighth Army contained three corps and was a multi-national force. XIII Corps contained British and French formations, X Corps contained only British troops, while XXX Corps consisted of Australian, British, Indian, New Zealand, and ...
British Army of the Rhine (1945–1994) British Element Trieste Force (BETFOR) [4] British Expeditionary Force (World War I) British Expeditionary Force (World War II) British Forces in Austria (ex Eighth Army) Cyrenaica Command (1940–1941) East Africa Command (1941–1964) Eastern Command; Far East Land Forces; Field Army (c.2015-present ...
This is a list of army divisions serving within the British Empire during the Second World War.Military formations within the British Empire were generally not static and were composed of a changing mix of units from across Britain, its colonies and the dominions.
British infantry on the move, alongside Universal Carriers, 1945. The infantry were the backbone of the British Army, and were intended to be mobile and with sufficient integrated artillery to be able to overcome opposing forces. [112] At the start of the war, the infantry were separated into two classes: infantry divisions and motor divisions ...