List of British Commands and Army groups
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This is a list of British Army commands and army groups. It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size. It does not cover formations of the British Indian Army.
- Aldershot Command (until 1941)
- Anti-Aircraft Command
- Army Strategic Command (1968–1972)
- British Army of the Rhine (1945–1994)
- British Element Trieste Force (BETFOR)[1]
- 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)
- Home Command
- Land Command (1995–2008)
- Land Forces (2008–2011)
- Malaya Command
- HQ Malta and Libya (until at least 1967)
- Mediterranean Command (1907–1914)
- Middle East Command (1939–1945)
- Middle East Land Forces, (1945[2]-1976)[3]
- Near East Land Forces
- Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947)
- Northern Command
- HQ Northern Ireland
- Persia and Iraq Command
- Scottish Command
- South Eastern Command (1941–1944)
- Southern Command (until 1972)
- United Kingdom Land Forces (1972–1995)
- United Kingdom Support Command (Germany)
- West Africa Command (1941–1956)
- Western Command
Army Groups
[edit]- 11th Army Group Activated in November 1943. On 12 November 1944 redesignated Allied Land Forces South East Asia
- 15th Army Group
- 18th Army Group
- 21st Army Group
- Allied Armies in Italy
References
[edit]- ^ BETFOR 'Order of Battle'
- ^ Middle East Land Forces (UK)
- ^ National Archives, accessed November 2008