The major effort for the second issue is to add material relating to the Royal Navy, bringing us closer to the name as British Military and not just British Army.  Issue 3 will include the RAF, accomplishing that goal. However, we do have some new material on the Army as well. In particular, we have brought the cavalry and Royal Tank Regiment up through the Second World War.  In future issues we will bring them up to the present, as well as beginning a series of articles on the Foot Guards from 1881 to the present.  Another new item is a complete orbat for the Territorial Army on reconstitution in Jan 1947, including updates into 1950.  For those who might also subscribe to our Orbat Web Magazine , please note that this article contains much more detail than did a similarly-titled article in that publication.

Richard Rinaldi
August 1, 2003

Articles marked with an asterisk previously appeared in the History Magazine.

*British Forces Zululand 1879 (Part 1) ChrisWI
*The King’s African Rifles Richard A. Rinaldi

*The Royal Navy 1902 Graham E. Watson
*British Naval Deployment 1900—1914 Graham E. Watson

CONTENTS

Articles marked with an asterisk previously appeared in the History Magazine.

Historical Material (to 1914)

The Beginning of the British Army (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*Army Command Structure in the United Kingdom, 1902-1914 (Graham E. Watson)
*The British Army 1902: Regular Units (Graham E. Watson) Free article
*British Reserve Military Forces in 1902 (Graham E. Watson)

Regular Regiments (1881 to Present)

British Cavalry Regiments 1881-1914 (Graham E. Watson)
British Cavalry Regiments 1914-1922 (Richard A. Rinaldi) Free Article
*The Deployment of British Infantry Battalions 1881-1948 (Graham E. Watson)
*The Regiments Depart: British Regiments, 1945—2002 (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*Deployment of British Armoured Regiments Since 1948 (Graham E. Watson)
 

The Royal Engineers

This section contains Corps of Royal Engineers: Units and Organization, 1899—2002 by Dr. Graham E. Watson and Richard A. Rinaldi. Roughly 200 pages organized into eight chapters, this is the most comprehensive known listing of the RE, which has had a lot of units (their basic unit being the company, now termed squadron). Because of the size of this monograph, it is posted here with each chapter as a separate document. We are beginning with Chapters One to Four.

Contents [includes Introduction and Abbreviations] [Yet to be uploaded]
Chapter One: Before the Great War (1899-1914)
Chapter Two: First World War (1914-1918)
Chapter Three: Inter-War Years (1920-1939)
Chapter Four: Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Units (1922-1940)

[These are in revision and will be sent in future issues] Chapter Five: Second World War (1939-1946)
Chapter Six: Post-War Regulars (1947-2002)
Chapter Seven: Reserves (1947-1967)
Chapter Eight: Reserves (1967-2001)
Appendix: Company and Squadron Organization
Sources [included in a document with the Appendix]
 

First World War and After

*Strength of the British Army, 1 Aug 1914 (Graham E. Watson) Free article
British Expeditionary Force 1914 (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*British Tank Corps in World War I (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*The Original British Army of the Rhine, 1919-1929 (Graham E. Watson and Richard A. Rinaldi)
*Royal Tank Corps 1923-1939: Regulars (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*Royal Tank Corps 1923-1939: Territorial Army (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*Machine Gun Corps Post World War I (Graham E. Watson)

The British Army: July 1938 (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*21st Army Group in Operation Market-Garden (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*British Armoured Regiment (1944-45) [Establishment] (Richard A. Rinaldi)
*British Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment (1944-45) [Establishment] (Richard A. Rinaldi)