XXX Corps

XXX Corps
Information
Datum	1941 – 1945
Land	Storbritannien
Storlek	Armékår
Kända slag och krig	Ökenkriget Dagen D Operation Market Garden
Befälhavare
Framstående befälhavare	Brian Horrocks

XXX Corps var en brittisk armékår under andra världskriget.

Slag

Nordafrika

Kåren deltog som en del av British Eighth Army i Operation Crusader som syftade till att pressa tillbaka Rommels Afrikakorps och undsätta den inneslutna garnisonen i Tobruk.

Organisation

Armékårens organisation den 23 oktober 1942.^[1]

• 1st South African Infantry Division
• 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division
• 4th Indian Infantry Division
• 9th Australian Infantry Division
• 51st (Highland) Infantry Division

Normandie

Kåren var en del av British Second Army . 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division och 8th Armoured Brigade landsattes på Gold Beach under själva Dagen D.

Market Garden

Organisation

• 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
• Guards Armoured Division - Major-General A. H. S. Adair
  • 5th Guards Brigade
  • 32nd Guards Brigade
• 43rd Wessex Infantry Division - Major-General G. I. Thomas
  • 8th battalion The Middlesex Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri
  • 129th Infantry Brigade
    • 4th battalion Somerset Light Infantry
    • 4th battalion Wiltshire Regiment
    • 5th battalion Wiltshire Regiment
  • 130th Infantry Brigade
    • 4th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
    • 5th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
    • 7th battalion Hampshire Regiment
  • 214th Infantry Brigade
    • 1st battalion Worcestershire Regiment
    • 5th battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
    • 7th battalion Somerset Light Infantry
• 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General D. A. H. Graham. Den 18 september överfördes divisionen till VIII Corps
  • 2nd battalion The Cheshire Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri
  • 69th Infantry Brigade
    • 5th battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
    • 6th battalion Green Howards
    • 7th battalion Green Howards
  • 151st Infantry Brigade
    • 6th battalion Durham Light Infantry
    • 8th battalion Durham Light Infantry
    • 9th battalion Durham Light Infantry
  • 231st Infantry Brigade
    • 1st battalion Dorsetshire Regiment
    • 1st battalion Hampshire Regiment
    • 7th battalion Devonshire Regiment
• 8th Armoured Brigade - Brigadier E. G. Prior-Palmer
• Royal Netherlands Brigade

Befälhavare

Kårens befälhavare:^[2]

• Lieutenant-General Vyvyan Pope: Augusti-Oktober 1941
• Lieutenant-General Willoughby Norrie: November 1941-Juli 1942
• Lieutenant-General William Ramsden: Juli-September 1942
• Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese: September 1942-December 1943
• Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall: Januari-Juli 1944
• Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks: Augusti 1944-December 1945
• Lieutenant-General Alexander Galloway: December 1945-September 1946

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