III Corps (Storbritannien)

III Corps var en armékår under den brittiska armén som verkade både under första och andra världskriget.

Fall Gelb

Organisation

Kårens organisation den 10 maj 1940:

  • 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division
  • 44th (Home Counties) Division

Befälhavare

Kårens befälhavare:[1]

  • Lieutenant-General Ronald Adam: Oktober 1939-Juni 1940
  • Lieutenant-General James Marshall-Cornwall: Juni-November 1940
  • Lieutenant-General Desmond Anderson: December 1940-December 1943
  • Lieutenant-General Ronald Scobie: December 1943-December 1944

Referenser

  1. ^ Mackie, Colin. ”SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS: 1860-”. Arkiverad från originalet den 4 mars 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112744/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201860-.pdf. Läst 26 november 2015. 
  • Lt-Col Ewan Butler & Maj J.S. Bradford, The Story of Dunkirk, (London, nd).
  • Col John K. Dunlop, The Development of the British Army 1899–1914, (London 1938).
  • Martin Middlebrook The First Day on the Somme (London, Allen Lane, 1971).
  • Official History 1914: Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds, Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne, August-October 1914 3rd revised edn 1933 (reprint Imperial War Museum, 1992) (ISBN 1870423569).
  • Official History 1939-40: Ellis, Major L.F., History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series: The War in France and Flanders 1939-1940, London: HMSO, 1954.

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