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This is a list of '''[[British Army]] [[Command (military formation)|commands]] and [[army group]]s'''. 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]].

In 1905, the army established a series of geographical [[military district]]s, known as "commands", to replace six army [[corps]] that had existed for a short period. Among the new commands was [[Aldershot Command]]. The purpose of the commands was to administer all units and formations located within their geographical borders, and if needed could be further subdivided into "areas". In 1939, it was one of the army's six regional commands, which existed within the [[British Isles]], on the outbreak of the Second World War.{{sfn|Dunlop|1938|pp=137–138, 147, 212–213}}{{sfn|Dear|Foot|1995|p=1145}} Its geographical area encompassed parts of the following four counties: [[Berkshire]], [[Hampshire]], [[Surrey]], and [[Sussex]].{{sfn|War Office|1939|page=41}} 

Commands were placed under the control of a [[general officer commanding]] who was assisted by an assortment of [[Staff (military)|staff officers]], which were subdivided between the General Staff, the [[Adjutant-General to the Forces|Adjutant-General]], the [[Quartermaster-General to the Forces|Quartermaster-General]], as well as the [[Royal Artillery]], [[Royal Engineers]], [[Royal Corps of Signals]], [[Royal Army Medical Corps]], and various other regiments and corps. 

== List ==
*[[Aldershot Command]] (until 1941)
*[[Anti-Aircraft Command]]
*[[Army Strategic Command (United Kingdom)|Army Strategic Command]] (1968–1972)
*[[British Army of the Rhine]] (1945–1994)
*[[British Element Trieste Force]] (BETFOR)<ref>[http://www.milhist.net/betfor/ordbat.html BETFOR 'Order of Battle']</ref>
*[[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 (United Kingdom)|Eastern Command]]
*[[British Far East Command|Far East Land Forces]]
*[[Field Army (United Kingdom)|Field Army]] (c.2015-present)
*[[Home Command (British Army)|Home Command]]
*[[Field Army (United Kingdom)|Land Command]] (1995–2008)
*[[Field Army (United Kingdom)|Land Forces]] (2008–2011)
*[[Malaya Command]]
*[[Malta Command|HQ Malta and Libya]] (until at least 1967)
*[[Mediterranean Command]] (1907–1914)
*[[Middle East Command]] (1939–1945)
*[[Middle East Command|Middle East Land Forces]], (1945<ref>[http://flagspot.net/flags/gb%5Emelf.html Middle East Land Forces (UK)]</ref>-1976)<ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=13445&CATLN=3&Highlight=&FullDetails=True&j=1 National Archives], accessed November 2008</ref>
*[[Near East Land Forces]]
*Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947)
*[[Northern Command (United Kingdom)|Northern Command]]
*[[HQ Northern Ireland]]
*[[Persia and Iraq Command]]
*[[Scottish Command]]
*[[South Eastern Command (United Kingdom)|South Eastern Command]] (1941–1944)
*[[Southern Command (United Kingdom)|Southern Command]] (until 1972)
*[[United Kingdom Land Forces]] (1972–1995)
*[[United Kingdom Support Command (Germany)]]
*[[West Africa Command]] (1941–1956)
*[[Western Command (United Kingdom)|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]]

==References==
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* {{cite book|first=Basil|last=Collier|author-link=Basil Collier|editor-last=Butler|editor-first=J. R. M.|editor-link=James Ramsay Montagu Butler|series=[[History of the Second World War]], United Kingdom Military Series|title=The Defence of the United Kingdom|location=London|publisher=HMSO|year=1957|oclc=375046}}
* {{cite book|first=Francis Albert Eley|last=Crew|author-link=Francis Albert Eley Crew|editor-last=MacNalty|editor-first=Arthur S.|editor-link=Arthur MacNalty|series=History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series|title=The Army Medical Services: Administration|volume=II|location=London|publisher=HMSO|year=1955|oclc=14668174}}
* {{cite book|last1=Dear|first1=Ian|last2=Foot|first2=Michael|title=The Oxford Companion to the Second World War|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=1995|isbn=978-0-19214-168-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Dunlop|first=John K.|title=The Development of the British Army 1899–1914|publisher=Methuen|location=London|year=1938|oclc=59826361}}
* {{Joslen-OOB}}
* {{cite book|last=Ironside|first=Edmund|title=Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside|publisher=The History Press|location=Stroud, Gloucestershire|year=2018|isbn=978-0-75098-740-0}}
* {{cite periodical |ref={{harvid|The Tank|1960}}
|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|periodical=The Tank|publisher=Royal Tank Regimental Publications Committee|location=London|year=1960|issue=498–509|oclc=25275667}}
* {{cite book|last=U.S. War Department|title=Technical Manual: Handbook on the British Army with Supplements on the Royal Air Force and Civilian Defense Organizations|publisher=U.S Government Printing Office|location=Washington|year=1943|oclc=19930228}}
* {{cite web|author=War Office |title=Monthly Army List, August, 1939: Security Edition|url=https://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/106844883|publisher=National Library of Scotland|date=1939 |access-date=11 July 2023}}

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