British Land Units of the First World War information

During the First World War the British Armed Forces was enlarged to many times its peacetime strength. This was done mainly by adding new battalions to...

Women's Peace Crusade British Land Units of the First World War Tucker, Spencer C.; Roberts, Priscilla (2005). The Encyclopedia of World War I: A Political,...

British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first...

World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World...

The British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British...

World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central...

The Auxiliary Units, Home Guard Shock Squads or GHQ Auxiliary Units were specially trained, highly secret quasi military units created by the British...

World War I was the first major conflict involving the large-scale use of aircraft. Tethered observation balloons had already been employed in several...

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control of 25% of the world's population, and of 30% of its land mass. The contribution of the British Empire and Commonwealth in terms of manpower and materiel...

The military history of Canada during World War I began on August 4, 1914, when the United Kingdom entered the First World War (1914–1918) by declaring...

The article lists British Army reserve brigades in World War I. At the start of the war volunteers in the vast majority of cases joined their local infantry...

timber to the Allied war effort. Besides RNA troops, Nepalese fought in the British Indian Gurkha units and were engaged in combat all over the world. A total...

The First Matabele War was fought between 1893 and 1894 in modern-day Zimbabwe. It pitted the British South Africa Company against the Ndebele (Matabele)...

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers...

fought between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought by Norwegian, French, British, and Polish...

During the Second World War, the basic tactical formation used by the majority of combatants was the division. It was a self-contained formation that...

of the world's 193 countries that are currently UN member states, or nine out of ten of all countries.   British victory   Another result *   British...

The Indian Army, also called the British Indian Army, was involved in World War I as part of the British Empire. More than one million Indian troops served...

"Fencible" Regiments of the British Army—recruited within British North America exclusively for service in North America—and Canadian militia units, was responsible...

The causes of World War II have been given considerable attention by historians. The immediate precipitating event was the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany...

Women in World War I were mobilized in unprecedented numbers on all sides. The vast majority of these women were drafted into the civilian work force to...

The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the...

come first. It gradually professionalised in the Victorian era and the role was well established by 1914. In the First World War, military units sought...

during World War I (1914–1918) reflected a trend toward industrialism and the application of mass-production methods to weapons and to the technology of warfare...

World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis...

All units within the British Army service are either Regular (full-time) or Army Reserve (full-time or part-time), or a combination with sub-units of each...