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This is a list of army brigades of the British Commonwealth and Empire during the Second World War. These brigades were often part of larger military formations composed of units from the United Kingdom, Dominions, British India and Crown Colonies. At the time, despite their multi-national composition, such formations were often referred as ...
Military formations within the British Empire were composed of a changing mix of units from across Britain, its colonies and the dominions. As a result, military formations within the Empire and Commonwealth are not easily attributable to specific Imperial or national entities and naming conventions do not necessarily correlate with modern ...
Formed from the British Indian Army's Eastern Army, Fourteenth Army was the largest British field army during the war. The Imperial War Museum wrote; "at one point it held the longest battle line, from the Bay of Bengal to the borders of India and China".
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. As a result military formations within the Empire and Commonwealth are not easily attributable to specific Imperial or national entities and naming conventions do not ...
And We Shall Shock Them: The British Army in World War II (1988). ISBN 978-0-3404-2637-1; Hamilton, Nigel. Monty: The Making of a General: 1887–1942 (1981); Master of the Battlefield: Monty's War Years 1942–1944 (1984); Monty: The Field-Marshal 1944–1976 (1986). Thompson, Julian. The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942 ...
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)
Notional corps formed to deceive the Axis about the strength of British forces based in Cyprus. [53] XXVI Airborne Corps: Nov 1944: End of the war A depiction of the god Mercury: British India (notionally) N/A Notional corps formed to deceive Japan about the strength of British forces based in region and to project a threat towards Thailand ...
In mid-1940, after the defeat of the World War II Allies in the Battle of France, the British Army began raising a raiding force. The army intended that these units would conduct hit and run attacks on German-occupied Europe, showcasing the British Army's still-vibrant offensive capability. At that time, most of the army was engaged in ...