Hello,Can someone tell me how much men were in a battalion? Most of the Bef battalions went into Belgium en retreted then first to the Tourcoing-...
Hello, everyone! I have found that the wartime British Army War Establishment is in the WO24 of the National...
https://core.ac.uk/download/429714369.pdf British Army Logistics in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945
This info has been scand from my Original copy of the War Office book [ Movements ] printed in 1955 and was Restricted at that time. Chapter 10...
Hi all. Does anyone know which archive holds the files for the Senior Officers School? SOS was run out of Sheerness during the interwar/early war...
Good morning All, I've read with great interest the posts by Trux and Paul Reed on the organisation of Motor Battalions in Normandy. In trying to...
In the tank development thread, ceolredmonger wrote: Simply focusing on the failings of individual tank designs is distracting. After action...
Hi all, I came across the DAAG acronym in reviews of citations at the end of the war in the war diary of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, e.g....
While updating my website regarding the various War Establishments of the Motor Battalion, I was reminded of an unusual change seen in the...
I am looking to gather some data on the structure and equipment of the Parachute engineer squadrons that served alongside the airborne forces. I...
Hi - Can anyone tell me if the army ranks assigned by the US and UK in WW2 were equivalent in authority? Thanks HZL
Were the platoons on the support company numbered 17-20 in the period 1944-45? Also in which numerical order? I have seen posts where either 17...
Does anyone happen to know - How long the "Divisional anti tank regiment RAC" lasted? I doubt past about 1957-1960. How long the "Light regiment...
Hello, i'm trying to find if the Inns of Court armoured car regiment had a different squadron organisation during the Northwest Europe campaign....
I am interested in getting hold of a copy of the article Bernard Montgomery wrote for the RE Journal September 1937 on The Problems of the...
Having skimmed this article I think this is the best place for it; it is contemporary review of those events and Montgomery. It opens with three...
Hi I am trying fit Officers from the "weekly return of Officers" that I found in the war dairies at kew into the WE establishment using the...
Hi I found a pic online of what pertains to be 7 Platoon of A Company of 6 Para Btn in Greece in 1944. Question is, if there are three platoons...
Is there available anywhere a complete listing of WW2 Holding battalions including the locations and Units. I have a soldier WHO WAS TRANSFERRED...
From reading the appendix of a battalion's war diary, what was the difference between serving in a Battalion HQ and in the Headquarters Company...
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