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XVIII Corps (United Kingdom)

Field	Value
unit_name	XVIII Corps
image	XVIII Corps WW1.svg
image_size	150px
caption	XVIII Corps formation badge.
dates	World War I
country
branch	[[File:Flag of the British Army.svg	23px]] British Army
type	Field corps
command_structure	Fifth Army
battles	World War I

Note

the United Kingdom Army unit

Battles of the Hindenburg Line
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of the Somme (1918) The XVIII Corps was a British infantry formation during World War I. It was reactivated, briefly, in Cyprus during World War II as part of a military deception.

History

British XVIII Corps was formed in France in January 1917 under Lieutenant General Sir Ivor Maxse.

From its formation, XVIII Corps Cavalry Regiment was provided by A and B Squadrons, South Irish Horse and B Squadron, 1/1st Hertfordshire Yeomanry. In May 1917, F Squadron South Irish Horse replaced the Herts Yeomanry, and XVIII Corps Cavalry Regiment was also known as 2nd South Irish Horse. It was dissolved in August 1917 when the South Irish Horse went to be retrained as infantry.

XVIII Corps pursued the German forces to the Hindenburg Line and was then merged into VIII Corps in July 1918.

In 1941, during World War 2, the XVII Corps was briefly reactivated as a fictional unit, as part of the Cyprus Defence Plan deception. However, it was later renamed XXV Corps.

General officers commanding

Commanders included:

15 January 1917 – 22 July 1918 Lieutenant-General Sir Ivor Maxse
22 June – 2 July 1918 Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston

References

[http://www.1914-1918.net/corps.htm The British Corps of 1914-1918]
Brig E.A. James, ''British Regiments 1914–18'', London: Samson Books, 1978, ISBN 0-906304-03-2/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9, p. 15.
Holt, Thaddeus. (2004). "The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War". Scribner.
[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/MAXSE.shtml Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives]

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