XXX Corps

XXX Corps
XXX Corps 1944-1945 shoulder flash.jpg
Information
Datum1941 – 1945
LandStorbritannien Storbritannien
StorlekArmékår
Kända slag och krigÖkenkriget
Dagen D
Operation Market Garden
Befälhavare
Framstående befälhavareBrian Horrocks

XXX Corps var en brittisk armékår under andra världskriget.

Slag

Nordafrika

Kåren deltog som en del av British Eighth Army i Operation Crusader som syftade till att pressa tillbaka Rommels Afrikakorps och undsätta den inneslutna garnisonen i Tobruk.

Organisation

Armékårens organisation den 23 oktober 1942.[1]

Normandie

Kåren var en del av British Second Army . 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division och 8th Armoured Brigade landsattes på Gold Beach under själva Dagen D.

Market Garden

Organisation

  • 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
  • Guards Armoured Division - Major-General A. H. S. Adair
    • 5th Guards Brigade
    • 32nd Guards Brigade
  • 43rd Wessex Infantry Division - Major-General G. I. Thomas
    • 8th battalion The Middlesex Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri
    • 129th Infantry Brigade
      • 4th battalion Somerset Light Infantry
      • 4th battalion Wiltshire Regiment
      • 5th battalion Wiltshire Regiment
    • 130th Infantry Brigade
      • 4th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 5th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 7th battalion Hampshire Regiment
    • 214th Infantry Brigade
      • 1st battalion Worcestershire Regiment
      • 5th battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
      • 7th battalion Somerset Light Infantry
  • 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General D. A. H. Graham. Den 18 september överfördes divisionen till VIII Corps
    • 2nd battalion The Cheshire Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri
    • 69th Infantry Brigade
      • 5th battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
      • 6th battalion Green Howards
      • 7th battalion Green Howards
    • 151st Infantry Brigade
      • 6th battalion Durham Light Infantry
      • 8th battalion Durham Light Infantry
      • 9th battalion Durham Light Infantry
    • 231st Infantry Brigade
      • 1st battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
      • 1st battalion Hampshire Regiment
      • 7th battalion Devonshire Regiment
  • 8th Armoured Brigade - Brigadier E. G. Prior-Palmer
  • Royal Netherlands Brigade

Befälhavare

Kårens befälhavare:[2]

  • Lieutenant-General Vyvyan Pope: Augusti-Oktober 1941
  • Lieutenant-General Willoughby Norrie: November 1941-Juli 1942
  • Lieutenant-General William Ramsden: Juli-September 1942
  • Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese: September 1942-December 1943
  • Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall: Januari-Juli 1944
  • Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks: Augusti 1944-December 1945
  • Lieutenant-General Alexander Galloway: December 1945-September 1946

Källor

  1. ^ ”8th Army, Middle East, 23.10.42”. World War II Armed Forces - Orders of Battle. Arkiverad från originalet den 8 augusti 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140808125943/http://orbat.com/site/ww2/drleo/017_britain/42-10-23/army_08.html. Läst 5 november 2010. 
  2. ^ 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. 

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