Talk:XXX Corps (United Kingdom)

Wow. Following that link, I really didn't know what to expect. Dirtiest...name...ever. :) Meelar 04:13, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)


 * LOL! - actually they are Roman numerals. It actually means "Thirty Corps" (30 Corps) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.148.221.50 (talk) 10:31, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

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Referencing and 'Order of Battle'
I think there needs to be more referencing here. The technique seems to have been to write a paragraph, then provide a reference at the end of the paragraph. However, it is quite clear that the references don't cover all the (varied) information within the individual paragraph! Thus, for example, the para on Market Garden, ending with reference [39]. This paragraph begins, "By 21 September the Guards Armoured Division troops were exhausted, and Horrocks also took ill, with XXX Corps periodically being commanded by its Brigadier General Staff (BGS) Brigadier Harold Pyman, for which he would be made Chief of Staff of Second Army after the operation." I have a great deal of interest in Op Market Garden, but I have never read that Horrocks "took ill" [sic] and that Brig Pyman took charge. Where has this information come from? I'm genuinely interested as I had always wondered why Horrocks (a hard charger previously) did not impress the necessary sense of urgency on Guards Armd Div. So, what's the source of this vital piece of information? It's certainly not reference [39] which addresses "The 4th and 5th Battalions The Dorsetshire Regiment in World War Two". The next paragraph (last one in the section on Market Garden), tsarting "The failure of Gavin's 82nd Airborne Division to seize the Nijmegen bridge caused a long delay for the XXX Corps to arrive at the Arnhem bridge as planned" suffers similarly. The only reference provided ([40]) actually doesn't support the information given in that paragaph! I would also challenge the suggestion that Gavin's failure to take the bridge over the Wall was THE problem that slowed XXX Corps' progress to Arnhem. It was one of the problems, certainly, but there were others (including the Germans' destruction of the bridge at Zon which delayed the advance on day 1.) Moreover, suggesting that, in turn, it was THIS that caused 1 Airborne Div to withdraw from Oosterbeek is also somewhat simplistic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C7:8F81:B200:280C:2345:BC8F:F25B (talk) 15:08, 11 February 2021 (UTC)