| II Corps | |
|---|---|
&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:II_corps.svg) Formation sign of II Corps during the Second World War.[1] It shows a salmon leaping over a "brook", and was designed in 1939 by the corps' chief of staff, Vyvyan Pope, as a play on the name of Alan Brooke, GOC.[2] | |
| Active | Waterloo Campaign First World War Second World War Post-1945 |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Branch | &sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg){kind=small} British Army |
| Type | Field corps |
| Engagements | Battle of Waterloo First World War:[3]
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| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Lord Hill Horace Smith-Dorrien Claud Jacob Alan Brooke Bernard Montgomery (acting) Kenneth Anderson Gerald Templer |
| Insignia | |
| Corps formation sign during the First World War.[4] | &sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:II_Corps_WW1.svg) |
The II Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War. There had also been a short-lived II Corps during the Waterloo Campaign.
- ^ Cole p. 27
- ^ Lewin, Ronald (1976). Man of armour: a study of Lieut-General Vyvyan Pope and the development of armoured warfare. London: Leo Cooper. p. 101n. ISBN 0-85052-050-9.
- ^ The British Corps of 1914-1918
- ^ JPS card no. 29