II Corps (United Kingdom)

II Corps
II Corps
	Formation sign of II Corps during the Second World War. 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.
Active	Waterloo Campaign; First World War; Second World War; Post-1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Field corps
Engagements	Battle of Waterloo; First World War: Battle of Mons; Battle of Le Cateau; Battle of the Marne; First Battle of the Aisne; Battle of La Bassee; Battle of Messines (1914); Battle of Armentières; Battle of Neuve Chapelle; Battle of the Somme 1916; Battle of the Ancre; German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line 1917; Third Battle of Ypres; The Final Advance in Flanders; Second World War Retreat to Dunkirk 1940;
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.

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.

^ Cole p. 27
^ Lewin, Ronald (1976). Man of armour: a study of Lieut-General Vyvyan Pope and the development of armoured warfare. London: Leo Cooper. p. 101n. ISBN 0-85052-050-9.
^ The British Corps of 1914-1918
^ JPS card no. 29

II Corps
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
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Field corps
Engagements	Battle of Waterloo First World War:^[3] Battle of Mons Battle of Le Cateau Battle of the Marne First Battle of the Aisne Battle of La Bassee Battle of Messines (1914) Battle of Armentières Battle of Neuve Chapelle Battle of the Somme 1916 Battle of the Ancre German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line 1917 Third Battle of Ypres The Final Advance in Flanders Second World War Retreat to Dunkirk 1940
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]