II Corps | |
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![]() Formation sign of II Corps during the Second World War.[1] It shows a salmon leaping over a "brook", and was designed in 1939 by the corps' chief of staff, Vyvyan Pope, as a play on the name of Alan Brooke, GOC.[2] | |
Active | Waterloo Campaign First World War Second World War Post-1945 |
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Branch | ![]() |
Type | Field corps |
Engagements | Battle of Waterloo First World War:[3]
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Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Lord Hill Horace Smith-Dorrien Claud Jacob Alan Brooke Bernard Montgomery (acting) Kenneth Anderson Gerald Templer |
Insignia | |
Corps formation sign during the First World War.[4] | ![]() |
The II Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War. There had also been a short-lived II Corps during the Waterloo Campaign.