XXX Corps var en brittisk armékår under andra världskriget.

Slag Nordafrika

Kåren deltog som en del av British Eighth Army i Operation Crusader som syftade till att pressa tillbaka Rommels Afrikakorps och undsätta den inneslutna garnisonen i Tobruk.

Organisation Armékårens organisation den 23 oktober 1942. 1st South African Infantry Division 2nd New Zealand Infantry Division 4th Indian Infantry Division 9th Australian Infantry Division 51st (Highland) Infantry Division

Normandie

Kåren var en del av British Second Army . 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division och 8th Armoured Brigade landsattes på Gold Beach under själva Dagen D.

Market Garden

Organisation 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment Guards Armoured Division - Major-General A. H. S. Adair 5th Guards Brigade 32nd Guards Brigade 43rd Wessex Infantry Division - Major-General G. I. Thomas 8th battalion The Middlesex Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri 129th Infantry Brigade 4th battalion Somerset Light Infantry 4th battalion Wiltshire Regiment 5th battalion Wiltshire Regiment 130th Infantry Brigade 4th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment 5th battalion Dorsetshire Regiment 7th battalion Hampshire Regiment 214th Infantry Brigade 1st battalion Worcestershire Regiment 5th battalion The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 7th battalion Somerset Light Infantry 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General D. A. H. Graham. Den 18 september överfördes divisionen till VIII Corps 2nd battalion The Cheshire Regiment Kulspruteinfanteri 69th Infantry Brigade 5th battalion East Yorkshire Regiment 6th battalion Green Howards 7th battalion Green Howards 151st Infantry Brigade 6th battalion Durham Light Infantry 8th battalion Durham Light Infantry 9th battalion Durham Light Infantry 231st Infantry Brigade 1st battalion Dorsetshire Regiment 1st battalion Hampshire Regiment 7th battalion Devonshire Regiment 8th Armoured Brigade - Brigadier E. G. Prior-Palmer Royal Netherlands Brigade Befälhavare Kårens befälhavare: Lieutenant-General Vyvyan Pope: Augusti-Oktober 1941 Lieutenant-General Willoughby Norrie: November 1941-Juli 1942 Lieutenant-General William Ramsden: Juli-September 1942 Lieutenant-General Oliver Leese: September 1942-December 1943 Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall: Januari-Juli 1944 Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks: Augusti 1944-December 1945 Lieutenant-General Alexander Galloway: December 1945-September 1946

Källor

Kategori:Brittiska armékårer under andra världskriget