Some representative orders of battle for II Corps are given here. [1] Later, the West Prussian districts were transferred to the new XVII Corps District. After the Waterloo campaign the army corps structure disappeared from the British Army for a century, except for ad hoc corps assembled during annual manoeuvres (e.g. Salient victories against Americans, they believed, might deter a further build-up and weaken Washington's resolve to continue the war. This pushed the German 2nd Army back along a 50-mile (80 km) front line. Maj. Gen. P.K. Thieu's 14 March order to withdraw these forces from Pleiku down the unused and almost impassable Provincial Route 7B to the coast was an act of desperation aimed at saving what was left of his forces in the Highlands. In March 1958, Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, became Headquarters for the reactivated II Corps as the controlling headquarters for United States Army Reserve units across the northeast. The Indian anti-aircraft regiments served in various theatres during World War II, from Singapore in the Far East to Iraq in the Middle East. document.cookie = "__adblocker=; expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT; path=/"; The corps was headed by General Honoré Charles Reille in 1815 and took part in the Battle of Waterloo. Light AA Rgt RA (TA), James Grierson at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Horace Smith-Dorrien at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Fergusson at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Claud Jacob at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, "British planning and preparations to resist invasion on land, September 1939 - September 1940", II Corps and other files from Operation Musketeer, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=II_Corps_(United_Kingdom)&oldid=962970731, Corps of the British Army in World War II, Military units and formations of the British Empire in World War II, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB, Articles needing additional references from February 2008, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, L/2nd Brigade RA (Aldershot), E/1st Brigade RA (Aldershot), K/4th Brigade RA (Aldershot), Ayr and Wigtown Militia (Ayr), Renfrew Militia (Paisley), Perth Militia (Perth), Galway Militia (Longbrea), North Cork Militia (Mallow), South Cork Militia (Bandon), Armagh Militia (Armagh), Middlesex Militia (Uxbridge), E/5th Brigade RA (Bristol), P/5th Brigade RA (Trowbridge), L/3rd Brigade RA (Woolwich), C Battery A Brigade RHA (Aldershot), G Battery C Brigade RHA (Christchurch), D Battery C Brigade RHA (Dorchester), A/1st Brigade RA (Devonport), A/6th Brigade RA (Woolwich), 15th Company Royal Engineers and Field Park (Kensington), 88th (2nd West Lancashire) Army Field Regiment (attached to 1st Division 28 May), 1 October 1901 – 31 December 1904 General Sir, Sep 1919 - Nov 1919 Lieutenant-General Sir. [10], This article is about the US Army formation of the 20th century. autoexec.cfgDownload. We thank you for your time and your trust. Recurrent menaces to Special Forces camps reflected the enemy's seasonal cycle of operations, his desire to harass and eliminate such camps, and his hope of luring allied forces into situations where he held the military advantages. During 1966 and 1967, the Americans engaged in a constant search for tactical concepts and techniques to maximize their advantages of firepower and mobility and to compensate for the constraints of time, distance, difficult terrain, and an inviolable border. Evacuation from MR 2 commenced on 11 March when the Vietnamese Air Force (VNAF) started to move its dependents in VNAF C 130 aircraft. By 1900H hours on 15 March, the evacuation to Nha Trang had been completed. The II Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War. The final approval, however, came through this year,” a senior Army officer told ThePrint on condition of anonymity. The officer quoted above added that many of those who served in the AAD, including the ones before 1994, felt that the raising day should be marked to honour its true valour embedded in history. It is likely that you are also hearing of the brutal layoffs and pay-cuts hitting the industry. #ga-ad {display: none;}