The British Army is the land warfare branch of the British Armed Forces. The English Army was founded in 1660, was succeeded in 1707 by the new British Army,[note 2] incorporating the existing Scottish regiments. It was administered by the War Office fro
United Kingdom (1934-1940) Infantry Tank – 139 Built In September 1939, the United Kingdom and her Empire embarked on yet another war with Germany over the future of Europe. Despite a rearmament program started at the end of the 1930s, Britain had entered the war ill-prepared for the ...
Following the breakout of World War I, many British Assassins such as Sam Crowder and an Assassin medic enlisted in the army. On the Christmas truce of 1914, the Assassin medic treated wounded British soldiers while German artillery hit the British trenches. As the British and German troops ...
One of his men was a ganger, in charge of the labourers. He was an interesting character; he had enlisted in the army during the First World War aged fifteen or sixteen, and been sent to fight in France, where he admitted to killing the enemy without compunction; it was after all, w...
British army officers were exclusively from aristocracy. Purchase of commission meant that only affluent could afford an officer commission. Commoners were only to serve in the ranks and hope to become Sergeant as the ultimate professional ceiling. If a British aristocrat officer was not allowing even...
28.11.1940 enlisted (served in the ranks for 2 years 169 days) 19.12.1942 commissioned, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Administrative Branch [emergency commission to 23.05.1947] (09.1944) - 20.09.1944 Second-in-Command, Divisional Ordnance Field Park Company, 1st Airborne Division (Arnhem [wounded ...
The transit camps at a disused army ground and a former gold mining encampment near Suan were known to the British as the Bean Camp and Bean Pie Camp (alternately known as the Mine or Mining Camp) respectively because of the diet of Soya bean cake provided there for several weeks before ...
To better support personnel circumstances (individuals and their families) at a particular stage in their life; To retain highly trained and motivated other ranks and officers; To better reflect society; and To enable the Armed Forces to become a more modern and flexible emp...
d like to see. In order for that to happen, however, Bruno has to realize that his current mindset will destroy his army, and the only way he’ll realize that is if he sees his army shrinking. That is the method we are employing as of right now, but it may change in the near ...
02.09.1939 enlisted 1941 - 1943 served in the ranks in the 2nd Parachute Battalion 15.04.1943 commissioned, Parachute Regiment - Army Air Corps [emergency commission] (09.1944) Officer Commanding, 4 Platoon (B Company), 2nd Parachute Battalion (Arnhem [captured 19.09.1944]) 09.1944 - 04.1945 POW...