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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 22:04, 27 March 2013: 797 × 800 (84 KB): Fæ {{User:{{subst:User:Fae/Fae}}/IWM |description = {{en|''The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45''<br/> Nissen huts being erected at an anti-aircraft gun site, 20 November 1944.}} |author = O'Brien (Lt), War Office official photographer |dat...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 16:00, 28 March 2013: 800 × 603 (54 KB): Fæ {{User:{{subst:User:Fae/Fae}}/IWM |description = {{en|''The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45''<br/> 3.7-inch guns of 75th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, near Dover, 14 October 1940.}} |author = Smith, Norman, War Office officia...
English: The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 A 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun covers a road as troops pass by in coaches during Exercise 'Bumper', 30 September 1941. Date
In September 1939, the British Army was in process of expanding their anti-aircraft and mobile (including armoured) assets. Among these new changes was the formation of Anti-Aircraft Command which was formed on 1 April 1939, and the 1st Armoured Division formed in 1937.
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 ...
These proposals were intended to reduce the size of the army to around 82,000. The Royal Armoured Corps was to be reduced by a total of two regiments, with the 9th/12th Royal Lancers amalgamated with the Queen's Royal Lancers to form a single lancer regiment, the Royal Lancers, and the 1st and 2nd Royal Tank Regiments joined to form a single ...
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English: The British Army in the United Kingdom 1939-45 An infantry section of 6th Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders, creep forward during exercises at Crum Castle in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, November 1941.