List of British Commands and Army groups

This is a list of British Army commands and army groups. It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size. It does not cover formations of the British Indian Army.


 * Aldershot Command (until 1941)
 * Anti-Aircraft Command
 * Army Strategic Command (1968–1972)
 * British Army of the Rhine (1945–1994)
 * British Element Trieste Force (BETFOR)
 * British Expeditionary Force (World War I)
 * British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
 * British Forces in Austria (ex Eighth Army)
 * Cyrenaica Command (1940–1941)
 * East Africa Command (1941–1964)
 * Eastern Command
 * Far East Land Forces
 * Field Army (c.2015-present)
 * Home Command
 * Land Command (1995–2008)
 * Land Forces (2008–2011)
 * Malaya Command
 * HQ Malta and Libya (until at least 1967)
 * Middle East Command (1939–1945)
 * Middle East Land Forces, (1945 -1976)
 * Near East Land Forces
 * Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947)
 * Northern Command
 * HQ Northern Ireland
 * Persia and Iraq Command
 * Scottish Command
 * South Eastern Command (1941–1944)
 * Southern Command (until 1972)
 * United Kingdom Land Forces (1972–1995)
 * United Kingdom Support Command (Germany)
 * West Africa Command (1941–1956)
 * Western Command

Army Groups

 * 11th Army Group Activated in November 1943. On 12 November 1944 redesignated Allied Land Forces South East Asia
 * 15th Army Group
 * 18th Army Group
 * 21st Army Group
 * Allied Armies in Italy