X Corps (United Kingdom)

X Corps
Formation sign of X Corps during the Second World War (second pattern).[1]
Active1915–1919
1940–1945
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeCorps
Engagements
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Thomas Morland
William Peyton
Reginald Stephens
William Holmes
Herbert Lumsden
Brian Horrocks
Richard McCreery
Insignia
Corps formation sign during the early part of the Second World War (first pattern).[1]
Corps formation sign during the First World War (an unaltered corps flag).[2]

X Corps was a corps of the British Army that served in the First World War on the Western Front before being disbanded in 1919. The corps was re-formed in 1942 during the Second World War and saw service in the North African Campaign and the Italian Campaign where it came under command of the US Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army.

  1. ^ a b Cole p. 29
  2. ^ JPS card no. 56