Portal:British Army

War and the military Military of  Ancient Rome  Australia Bangladesh Canada Germany  Greece Pakistan Turkey United Kingdom (British Army Royal Air Force Royal Navy) United States ( Army Marine Corps Navy Air Force Coast Guard) … Military history of  Africa France the Ottoman Empire …… American Civil War American Revolutionary War Cold War Crusades Italian Wars Napoleonic Wars War of 1812 World War I World War II …… Battleships Biological warfare Submarine Tank Weapons of mass destruction …… NATO  Terrorism The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. It came into being with unification of the governments and armed forces of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in the Acts of Union 1707. The new British Army incorporated regiments that had already existed in England and Scotland and was controlled by the War Office from London. As of 2006, the British Army includes roughly 107,730 active members and 38,460 Territorial Army members. The professional British Army has also been referred to as the Regular Army since the creation of the Territorial Army. The British Army is deployed in many of the world's war zones as part of a fighting force and in United Nations peacekeeping forces. In contrast to the Royal Navy, Royal Marines and Royal Air Force, the British Army does not include "Royal" in its title, because of its roots as a collection of disparate units, many of which do bear the "Royal" prefix, such as the Royal Artillery and the Royal Engineers. Template:/box-footer Following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the German army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne. Both sides then dug in along a meandering line of fortified trenches, stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier with France. This line remained essentially unchanged for most of the war. Between 1915 and 1917 there were several major offensives along this front. The attacks employed massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. However, a combination of entrenchments, machine gun nests, barbed wire, and artillery repeatedly inflicted severe casualties on the attackers and counter attacking defenders. As a result, no significant advances were made. In an effort to break the deadlock, this front saw the introduction of new military technology, including poison gas, aircraft, and tanks. But it was only after the adoption of improved tactics that some degree of mobility was restored. In spite of the generally stagnant nature of this front, this theater would prove decisive. The inexorable advance of the Allied armies in 1918 persuaded the German commanders that defeat was inevitable, and the government was forced to sue for conditions of an armistice. Read More... Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was an Irish-born British Field Marshal, diplomat and statesman popularly referred to as Lord Kitchener. At the outset of World War I, the Prime Minister, H. H. Asquith, quickly had Lord Kitchener appointed Secretary of State for War; Asquith had been filling the job himself as a stopgap following the resignation of Colonel Seeley over the Curragh Mutiny earlier in 1914, and Kitchener was by chance briefly in Britain on leave when war was declared. Against cabinet opinion, Kitchener correctly predicted a long war that would last at least three years, require huge new armies to defeat Germany, and suffer huge casualties before the end would come. Smelling blood in the wind, Kitchener stated that the conflict would plumb the depths of manpower "to the last million." A massive recruitment campaign began, which soon featured a distinctive poster of himself, taken from a magazine front cover. It may have encouraged large numbers of volunteers and has proven to be one of the most enduring images of the war, having been copied and parodied many times since. Read More... Military history WikiProject British military history task force United Kingdom WikiProject History WikiProject Biography WikiProject The Royal Gurkha Rifles (RGR) is a regiment of the British Army, forming part of the Brigade of Gurkhas. The Royal Gurkha Rifles are now the sole infantry regiment of the British Army Gurkhas. Like the other Gurkha regiments of the British and Indian armies, the regiment is recruited from Gurkhas from Nepal, which is a nation independent of the United Kingdom and not a member of the Commonwealth. The regiment was formed in 1994 from the amalgamation of the four separate Gurkha regiments in the British Army: 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles The Royal Gurkha Rifles are considered to be some of the finest soldiers in the world, as is evidenced by the high regard they are held in for both their fighting skill, and their smartness of turnout on parade. Their standard of drill is considered to be on a par with that of the Foot Guards, so much so that on many occasions the regiment has mounted the guard at Buckingham Palace. Read More... Bowman is the name of the tactical communications system used by the British Armed Forces. The Bowman C4I system consists of a range of HF radio, VHF radio and UHF radio sets designed to provide secure integrated voice, data services to dismounted soldiers, individual vehicles and command HQs up to Division level. Bowman has a number of specific applications installed on the base radio infrastructure known as BISAs. Bowman has been released incrementally as a number of phased capability releases known as BCIP's with BCIP 5 currently being deployed. It replaces the Clansman series of radios in service. Read More... Royal Navy RAF United Kingdom Blues and Royals Trooper A Trooper of the Blues and Royals on mounted duty in Whitehall, London, England. A. E. J. Collins Arthur Ernest Percival Battle of Albuera Battle of Arras (1917) Battle of Barrosa Battle of Blenheim Battle of Greece Battle of Schellenberg British anti-invasion preparations of World War II Battle of Ramillies Frederick Russell Burnham Invasion of Normandy Crawford expedition Operation Varsity Isaac Brock Issy Smith John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Peterloo Massacre Pontiac's Rebellion Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell Siege of Malakand Victoria Cross War of the Fifth Coalition Webley Revolver Western Front (World War I) Attention needed ...to referencing and citation  • ...to coverage and accuracy  • ...to structure  • ...to grammar  • ...to supporting materials  Cleanup needed   Portal:British Army Requested articles  Battle of Tug Argan • A Force • Anglo-Norwegian Joint Committee • Army Motor Reserve • Army Regulation Bill • Thomas Best (soldier) • Francis Blanchain • Richard Bonython • Bernard Brocas (Royalist) • Cannon Kopje • Combined Operations Directorate • Donkeyman • Dublin Brigade • Humphrey Gale • General Service Enlistment Act • Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion • Charles Morgan (army officer) • John Norris (army officer) • Operation Rayon • Donat Henchy O'Brien • Operation Shark • Radfan uprising • Royal Sicilian Volunteers • Three-Two Battalion • Narendra Bir Singh • Thirty Committee • Paul Mainwaring Jones • Siege of Cartagena • County Galway Volunteers • Gurkha Security Guards Limited • Keeni-Meeni Services • Lifeguard (mercenary company) • James Patterson Steward • Saladin Security • Trident Maritime • Euan McPherson (commander in Lord Loudoun's army) • Headquarters Theatre Troops (British Army current unit) • Remote Radar Head (RAF radar station classification) • Landing at Kesang River • Landing at Pontian • Battle of Plaman Mapu Expansion needed   Battle of Germantown • Roulement • Addiscombe Military Academy • Home Defence Executive • Operation Accumulator • William Rowan • Richard James Dacres • Frederick Haines • Cádiz Expedition (1625) • Battle of Skerki Bank • Cádiz Expedition • Richard Clement Moody • Arthur Reid Lempriere • Henry Spencer Palmer • Royal Engineers, Columbia detachment • 8x57mm IS (nomenclature as "7.92mm" by Poland and GB?) • William Vavasour Images needed   Siege of Calcutta • Merging needed   Add an article here! 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