III Corps (United Kingdom)

III Corps
Formation sign of III Corps during the Second World War.[1]
ActiveFirst World War and Second World War
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeField corps
EngagementsBattle of the Marne
First Battle of the Aisne
Battle of La Bassee
Battle of Messines (1914)
Battle of Armentieres
Battle of the Somme 1916
German retreat to the Hindenburg Line 1917
Battle of Cambrai 1917
First Battles of the Somme 1918
Battle of Amiens
Second Battles of the Somme 1918
Battles of the Hindenburg Line
The Final Advance in Artois
Retreat to Dunkirk 1940
Greece 1944
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Duke of Connaught
Sir William Pulteney
Richard Butler
Sir Ronald Adam
Ronald Scobie
Insignia
Corps formation sign during the First World War.[2]

III Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War.

  1. ^ Cole p. 27
  2. ^ JPS card no. 18