List of British Commands and Army groups

This is a list of British Army commands and army groups. It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size.

Commands

• Aldershot Command (until 1941)
• Anti-Aircraft Command
• Army Headquarters (from 1 November 2011)
• Army Strategic Command (1968–1972)
• British Army of the Rhine (1945–1994)
• British Element Trieste Force (BETFOR)^[1]
• British Expeditionary Force (World War I)
• British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
• British Forces in Austria (ex Eighth Army)
• Cyrenaica Command (1940–1941)
• East Africa Command (1941–1964)
• Eastern Command
• Far East Land Forces
• British India Command
• Land Command (1995–2008)
• Land Forces (2008–2011)
• Malaya Command
• HQ Malta and Libya (until at least 1967)
• Middle East Command (1939–1945)
• Middle East Land Forces, (1945^[2]-1976)^[3]
• Near East Land Forces
• Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947)
• Northern Command
• HQ Northern Ireland
• Persia and Iraq Command
• Scottish Command
• Southern Command (until 1972)
• UK Land Forces (1972–1995)
• UK Support Command (Germany) (see British Forces Germany)
• West Africa Command (1941–1956)
• Western Command

Army Groups

• 11th Army Group Activated in November 1943. On 12 November 1944 redesignated Allied Land Forces South East Asia
• 15th Army Group
• 18th Army Group
• 21st Army Group
• Allied Armies in Italy

Notes and references

1. ^ BETFOR 'Order of Battle'
2. ^ Middle East Land Forces (UK)
3. ^ National Archives, accessed November 2008