List of British Empire corps of the Second World War
This is a list of corps serving within the armies of the British Empire during the Second World War.
A Corps was either a temporary military formation created for combat, or an "administrative" formation that coordinated specialist military functions across a national military force. A combat Corps was composed of specialist units from various "administrative" Corps from combat arms, combat support arms and combat services. Combat Arms were formation sized units from the Corps of infantry and armour, usually 2 or more divisions in strength. Combat Support Arms were smaller units from the Corps of artillery, engineers, signals, intelligence or reconnaissance. Combat Services were units from the Corps of medicine, general services, ordnance, pioneers, logistics and other more specialized functions. For example, I Canadian Corps consisted of 1 infantry division, 1 armour division, 1 armour brigade and Corps Troops (20 plus companies from the Corps of engineers, signals, medicine, military police, etc...)
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 country names.
- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms
- Combat Services
- Other
- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms
- Combat Services
- Other
- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms
- Combat Services
- Other
- Canadian Technical Training Corps
- Canadian Officers' Training Corps
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- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms
- Combat Services
- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms[4]
- Combat Services[5]
- Field Corps
- Combat Arms
- Combat Support Arms
- Combat Services
- Field Corps (not all standard corps size)
- Combat Support Arms
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- West African Artillery
- West African Engineers
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- Combat Services [6][7]
- African Pioneer Corps
- East African Army Service Corps
- East African Military Labour Corps
- Fijian Labour Corps
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See also
References
- ↑ Ewer, Peter (2008). Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941, Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, ISBN 1921215291.
- ↑ Ewer, Peter (2008). Forgotten Anzacs: The Campaign in Greece, 1941, Scribe Publications Pty Ltd, ISBN 1921215291.
- ↑ Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment History
- ↑ An authoritative source for New Zealand administrative corps from 1911-1991 is Malcolm Thomas and Cliff Lord, Parts One/Two "New Zealand Army Distinguishing Patches 1911-1991," ISBN 0-473-03288-0.
- ↑ An authoritative source for New Zealand administrative corps from 1911-1991 is Malcolm Thomas and Cliff Lord, Parts One/Two "New Zealand Army Distinguishing Patches 1911-1991," ISBN 0-473-03288-0.
- ↑ Africa and the Second World War, editors David Killingray, Richard Rathbone, Macmillan, 1986
- ↑ War and Empire in Mauritius and the Indian Ocean, A. Jackson, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2001
- History of the Second World War (104 volumes), Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London 1949 to 1993
- Official History of Australia in the War of 1939–1945 (22 volumes), Australian Government Printing Service, 1952 to 1977
- Official History of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Vol I Six Years of War, Stacey, C P., Queen's Printer, Ottawa, 1955
- The Canadian Army 1939 – 1945, An Official Historical Summary, Stacey, C P., Queen's Printer, Ottawa, 1948
- Official History of the Indian Armed Forces in the Second World War 1939-45 (24 volumes), Combined Inter-Services Historical Section, India & Pakistan, New Delhi, 1956-1966
- Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45, Historical Publications Branch, Wellington, New Zealand, 1965
- Official Lineages DND, Ottawa