British Army

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The British Army is the United Kingdom’s principal land warfare force, historically central to its military campaigns and global influence.


Statements (70)
Predicate Object
instanceOf army
land warfare branch
allegiance British monarch
United Kingdom
commanderTitle Chief of the General Staff
Commander Field Army
country United Kingdom
doctrine British Army doctrine
engagedIn Crimean War
Falklands War
First World War
Gulf War
Iraq War
Korean War
Malayan Emergency
Napoleonic Wars
Second Boer War
Second World War
The Troubles
War in Afghanistan
foundedBy Kingdom of Great Britain
garrison Army Headquarters Andover
hasBranch Adjutant General's Corps
Army Air Corps
Army Cadet Force
Army Reserve
Gurkha units
Household Division
Infantry
Intelligence Corps
Parachute Regiment
Regular Army
Royal Armoured Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Corps of Signals
Royal Engineers
Royal Logistic Corps
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Special Air Service
Special Reconnaissance Regiment
hasCeremonialUnit Foot Guards
Household Cavalry
hasTrainingInstitution Army Foundation College Harrogate
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
headquartersLocation Andover
Hampshire
United Kingdom
inception 1660
language English
memberOf NATO forces
motto Be the Best
notableOperation Operation Banner
Operation Granby
Operation Herrick
Operation Telic
partOf British Armed Forces
precededBy New Model Army
role aid to the civil power
land warfare
overseas operations
peacekeeping
territorial defence
serviceBranchOf United Kingdom
usesEquipment Apache attack helicopter
Challenger 2 main battle tank
SA80 assault rifle
Warrior infantry fighting vehicle
usesRankStructure British Army officer ranks
British Army other ranks
website https://www.army.mod.uk/

Referenced by (showing first 500 of 875)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
1st (United Kingdom) Division
1st Airlanding Brigade
1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
3rd Infantry Division
6th Regiment of Foot
7th Armoured Division
Adjutant General's Corps
Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge
Advance to the Elbe
Alan Brooke
Anthony Eden
Archibald Sinclair
Army Business Services (elements)
Army Catering Corps
Army Foundation College Harrogate
Army Headquarters Andover
Army Infrastructure Organisation (elements)
Army Reserve
Arthur Asquith
Arthur Percival
Arthur St. Clair
Banastre Tarleton
Band of the Household Division
Basil Rathbone
Battle of Eutaw Springs ("British Army regulars")
Benedict Arnold
Bernard Freyberg
Bernard Montgomery
Blandford Camp
Brian Horrocks
British 1st Airborne Division
British XXX Corps
Captain Thomas Preston
Catterick Garrison
Charles Allfrey
Charles Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Charles Lee
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend
Christopher Michael Maltby
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck
Colin Campbell
Commander-in-Chief, Middle East Command
Cyril Asquith
David Niven
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Distinguished Service Order
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Graham
Duncan Sandys
Edward Heath
Edward VIII
Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
Eric Down
Evelyn Waugh
Field Army
First Army (Allied, North Africa)
Francis Smith
Frederick Arthur Montague Browning
Frederick Browning
Frederick Hugh Sherston Roberts
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Sykes
George Clive (British Army officer)
George F. Hopkinson
George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend
Gerald Templer
Glyn Hughes
Guy Carleton
Harold Alexander
Harold Macmillan
Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander
Hastings Ismay
Headquarters 1st (United Kingdom) Division (elements)
Henry Clinton
Henry Havelock
Henry Maitland Wilson
Henry Montague Hozier
Henry Rawlinson
Henry William Frederick Albert
Horatio Gates
Horatio Herbert Kitchener
Hugh Alexander Pollock
Hussein Onyango Obama
Initial Training Group
Isaac Brock
J. R. R. Tolkien
James Abercrombie
James Blunt
James Hillier Blount
James Oglethorpe
James Outram
James Wolfe
Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
Jo Grimond
John Burgoyne
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Nicholson
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
John Profumo
John Strange Spencer-Churchill
Joint Forces Cyber Group
Joint Helicopter Command
Julian Byng
Junior Soldiers College
Kenneth Anderson
Kermit Roosevelt
Kip
Larkhill
Lord Chelmsford
Lord George Sackville
Lord Gort
Lord Kitchener
Lord Raglan
Lord Roberts
Lord Trenchard
Lord Wavell
Miles Dempsey
Miles Dempsey
Minden Day
Monty
Moore Barracks
Neil Ritchie
Nevil Macready
Norman Wisdom
Oliver Leese
Oliver Leese
Operation Bluecoat
Operation Capital
Operation Corporate
Operation Granby
Orde Charles Wingate
Percival Fawcett
Percy Fawcett
Peter Fleming
Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Prince William, Prince of Wales
Princess Royal Barracks, Deepcut
Provost Branch
Queen's Rangers
Raymond Asquith
Red Devils
Richard McCreery
Richard Montgomery
Richard O'Connor
Richard William Howard Vyse
Robert Clive
Robert Pigot
Robert Rogers
Robert Ross
Ronald Scobie
Roy Urquhart
Roy Urquhart
Royal Armoured Corps
Royal Army Educational Corps
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Army Ordnance Corps
Royal Lancers
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Royal Regiment of Artillery
Sidney Kirkman
Siegfried Sassoon
Sir John Colborne
Sir John Moore
Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Sir Thomas Brisbane
Special Reconnaissance Regiment
Stirling Lines
T. E. Hulme
The Tankies
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin
Thomas Gage
VIII Corps (United Kingdom)
Valentine Fleming
Walcheren Campaign
Wilfred Owen
William Birdwood
William Cadogan
William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington
William Howe
William Hunt (soldier)
William Marshall (British Army officer)
William Slim
William Tryon
Winston Churchill
XIII Corps
militaryBranch
11th Armoured Division
11th Signal Brigade and Headquarters West Midlands
13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own)
15th Hussars
170 (Infrastructure Support) Engineer Group
1st Signal Brigade
21 SAS
21 Signal Regiment
23 SAS
27th Armoured Brigade
2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
3rd British Infantry Division
43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
4th Battalion, Parachute Regiment
51st (Highland) Division
6th Battalion, Green Howards
7th Battalion, Green Howards
8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
Blues and Royals
British 1st Airborne Division
British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division
British 6th Airborne Division
British 8th Armoured Brigade
British Second Army
British X Corps
Coldstream Guards
Eighth Army
Grenadier Guards
Guards Armoured Division
Guards Division
Headquarters 104 Theatre Sustainment Brigade (elements)
Headquarters 77th Brigade (elements)
Household Cavalry
I Airborne Corps
Irish Guards
King's Own Scottish Borderers
Life Guards
Light Dragoons
London Scottish Regiment
Manchester Regiment
Middlesex Regiment
No. 4 Commando
Operation Telic
Queen’s Gurkha Signals
Queen’s Royal Hussars
RE
Royal Berkshire Regiment
Royal Corps of Signals
Royal Corps of Transport
Royal Dragoon Guards
Royal Pioneer Corps
Royal Scots
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards
Royal Tank Regiment
Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Scots Guards
Special Forces Support Group
Special Reconnaissance Regiment
Territorial Army
The Household Cavalry
The King’s Life Guard
The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
Ulster Defence Regiment
Welsh Guards
XXX Corps
branch
Battle of Alma
Battle of Bardia
Battle of Bladensburg
Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
Battle of Bunker Hill
Battle of Chelsea Creek
Battle of Fort Washington
Battle of Germantown
Battle of Harlem Heights
Battle of Isandlwana
Battle of Laing's Nek
Battle of Long Island
Battle of Majuba Hill
Battle of Monmouth
Battle of Nassau
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Ridgefield
Battle of Sahagún
Battle of Schuinshoogte
Battle of Stony Point
Battle of Talavera
Battle of White Plains
First Boer War
Siege of Delhi
Siege of Ladysmith
Yorktown
combatant
8 Engineer Brigade
Army Digital Services (elements)
Arthur Percival
Arthur St. Clair
Charles Lee
Christopher Michael Maltby
Claude Auchinleck
Frederick Browning
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Sykes
Gerald Templer
Henry Rawlinson
Horatio Gates
Johann Rall ("British Army (auxiliary service)")
John Reith
Richard William Howard Vyse
Robert Torrens
Roy Urquhart
Royal Army Medical Corps
Royal Corps of Signals
employer
Anthony Eden
Claude Rains
Claude Rains
Clement Attlee
Cyril Radcliffe ("British Army (World War I)")
Donald Crisp
Henry Moore
Humphrey Lyttelton
J. B. S. Haldane
John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
Keith Joseph
Lawrence Bragg ("British Army in World War I")
Mark Burnett
Martin Ryle
Oswald Mosley
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
The Hon. Gerald Lascelles
Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor
militaryService
7th Battalion, Green Howards ("British infantry")
Baron Roberts
Canadian Forestry Corps
Charge of the Light Brigade
Death or Glory
Defence of the Realm
Distinguished Service Order
Earl Haig Memorial
Fear Naught
Indian Territorial Force
My Boy Willie
Old Guard
Peggy Shippen
Royal Naval Division War Memorial
The Shop (historical nickname used by officers)
Utrinque Paratus
Whither Right and Glory Lead
associatedWith
Battle of Anzio
Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill
Battle of Lundy’s Lane
Battle of Malaya
Battle of Quebec (1759)
Battle of Queenston Heights
Battle of Salerno
Battle of the Thames
British landing at Benedict, Maryland
Indian Rebellion of 1857 ("British Crown forces")
Irish War of Independence
New Jersey campaign of 1778
Operation Garden
Siege of Charleston
Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777)
belligerent
Battle of Dettingen
Battle of Fontenoy
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of Orthez
Battle of Warburg
Battle of White Plains
Burning of Washington
Dekemvriana
Retreat from Normandy
Siege of Yorktown
Tan War
hasParticipant
1st South African Division
Australian Flying Corps
Chinese Expeditionary Force
French First Army
French I Corps
Hessian forces
II Corps (United States)
Ninth Air Force
alliedWith
Armed Forces Act
British Army officer ranks
British Articles of War
King's Regulations
Minden Day
Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War
appliesTo
European Theater of Operations, United States Army
Flag Officer, Dover
Haganah
New Zealand forces
Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade
cooperatedWith
Allied reconquest of British Somaliland
British landing at Benedict, Maryland
Operation Battleaxe
Operation Vulcan
United Kingdom
militaryBranchInvolved
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
Rogers' Rangers
allegiance
Gibraltar Barracks, Minley
Larkhill
Royal Citadel
The Shop
controlledBy
Allied Combined Operations Headquarters
Boston campaign
Chesapeake campaign
Saratoga campaign
involves
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces (United Kingdom)
Paymaster of the Forces
Secretary at War
appliesToJurisdiction
Ministry of Defence (for ceremonial use)
Permanent Joint Headquarters Northwood
Strategic Command
coordinatesWith
Dover Castle
Fort Ticonderoga
Wei Hai Wei
garrisonedBy
Anglo-Russian invasion of the Netherlands
Battle of Plattsburgh
Battle of Vellinghausen
involvedForce
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
John Reith
Leonard Darwin
memberOf
Army Cadet Force
Royal Tank Regiment Association
affiliatedWith
Frederick Sykes
William Howe
affiliation
Battle of Orthez
Battle of Soissons
alliedForce
1st Parachute Brigade
Battle of Hubbardton
armedForce
Army Catering Corps
Royal Corps of Signals
branchOf
Fort Henry
Great Siege Tunnels
constructedBy
A Bridge Too Far
Turn: Washington's Spies
depicts
7th Panzer Division
Southern Department of the Continental Army
engagedAgainst
Spencer-Churchill family
Woolwich
historicallyAssociatedWith
Truce of 11 July 1921
United Kingdom defence policy
implementedBy
Capture of Baghdad (1917)
Falklands War
involvedBranch
Borneo Confrontation
Siege of Boston
involvedMilitaryUnit
Battle of Camden
Battle of Lauffeld
involvedUnit
Army Personnel Centre
Board of Ordnance
jurisdiction
Occupied Enemy Territory Administration
administeredBy
Home Command ("British Army home forces")
administrativeControlOver
Maxim machine gun
adoptedBy
Battle of Brandywine
armedForceBritish
Rudolf Höss
arrestedBy
Battle of Magersfontein
artilleryUsedBy
Fort Michilimackinac ("British soldiers")
associatedWithPeople
Mount Longdon
attackedBy
Defence Council of the United Kingdom
authorityOver
Military Medal
awardingAuthority
Meriam’s Corner
battleSide2
Battle of Khadki ("British forces")
belligerentSide
Royal Flying Corps
branchOfService
Battle of Inkerman
combatantForce
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
commemoratedForces
British Armed Forces
component
Operation Nimrod
conductedBy
Austro-Hungarian Army
conflict
Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre
customer
White House
damagedBy
Canadian Army (pre‑1968)
doctrineInfluence
Malacca Volunteer Corps
equipmentSource
English Army
establishedBefore
British raid on New London, Connecticut
forceInvolved
Eighth Army
formedBy
Royal Regiment of Artillery
foundedBy
Catterick Garrison
garrison
British Military Administration in Eritrea
governingBody
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
guardedBy
War Office
hadJurisdictionOver
Upavon
hasLongAssociationWith
Northern theater of the American Revolutionary War
hasMainParticipants
British Commonwealth forces
hasMember
Wellington College
hasMilitaryAssociation
British Expeditionary Forces ("British Army units")
hasPart
Field Marshal (British Army)
highestRankIn
Royal Egyptian Army
influencedBy
Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle
inServiceWith
Operation Slapstick
involvedArm
Washington’s Ten Crucial Days
involvesForce
James Caldwell
killedBy
Bergen-Belsen
liberatedBy
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands
liberatingForces
Armstrong Whitworth
market
English Army
mergedInto
Hesse-Kassel
militaryAlliance
Jeremy Irvine as young Eric Lomax
militaryBranchOfCharacter
Royal Hospital Chelsea
militaryBranchServed
Aroostook War
militaryForcesInvolved
Aden Emergency
militaryForceUsed
Vickers-Armstrongs
notableClient

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