II Corps (United Kingdom)

II Corps
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]
ActiveWaterloo Campaign
First World War
Second World War
Post-1945
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeField corps
EngagementsBattle of Waterloo
First World War:[3]

Second World War

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]

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.

  1. ^ Cole p. 27
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ The British Corps of 1914-1918
  4. ^ JPS card no. 29