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Army Overview (Great Britain)
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British Army
Light Infantry Regiments
Size: 1–2 Regular battalions
1 militia and special reserve battalion
1–2 Territorial and volunteer battalions
Up to 10 hostilities-only battalions
Size: 2 Regular battalions
First World War – 42 battalions
Size: 2nd Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers
Size: N/A
Size: 1–2 Regular battalions
1–3 Volunteer and Territorial battalions
Up to 6 hostilities-only battalions
Size: 2 Regular battalions
1 Militia battalion
2 Territorial and Volunteer battalions
Up to 8 hostilities-only battalions
Size: 1–2 Regular battalions
1–3 Volunteer and Territorial battalions
Up to 13 hostilities-only battalions
British Rifle Regiments
Size: 4 Battalions in Peacetime (28 during the Great War)
Size: 4 Battalions in Peacetime (28 during the Great War)
Size: 2 Regular battalions
2 Militia battalions
2 - 4 Territorial and Volunteer battalions
Up to 12 hostilities-only battalions
Size: 1-2 Regular battalions
3 Militia and Special Reserve battalions
Up to 16 Hostilities-only battalions
1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
Size: 1 Regiment
- 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards (until August 1915)
- 1st Battalion, Scots Guards (until August 1915)
- 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
- 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (until August 1914)
- 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (from September 1914)
- 1st Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 26 January 1916, moved to 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 28 February 1918)
- 1st Trench Mortar Battery (formed 27 November 1915)
- 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (from February 1918)
Foot Guards
Foot Guards
Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
Combat Support:
Corps of Royal Engineers 15 + 7 Regiments
Royal Corps of Signals
Intelligence Corps
Honourable Artillery Company 0 + 1 Regiment
Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) 0 + 1 Regiment
Army Equipment
Rifles
Magazine Lee–Metford Rifle
Magazine Lee–Enfield - 1895–1926
Charger Loading Lee–Enfield - 1906–1926
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk I - 1904–1926
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk II - 1906–1927
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk III/III - 1907–???
Short Magazine Lee–Enfield Mk V - 1922–1924 (trials only; 20,000 produced)
Total: 17,000,000
British Heavy Tanks
Crew: 8
Combat Weight
Male: 28 tons (28.4 tonnes)
Female: 27 tons (27.5 tonnes)
Armour: 0.23–0.47 in (6–12 mm)
Armament
Male: two 6-pounder QF, three Hotchkiss Machine Guns
Female: four 0.303 in Vickers Machine Guns, one Hotchkiss Machine Gun
[spoiler]Mark III
The Mark IV was a more heavily armoured version of the Mark I, and went into production in May 1917. Fundamental mechanical improvements had originally been intended, but had to be postponed. The main change was the introduction of shorter-barrelled 6-pounder guns. It had all its fuel stored in a single external tank (located between the rear track horns) in an attempt to improve crew safety. The sponsons could be pushed in to reduce the width of the tank for rail transportation. Rails on the roof carried an unditching beam. A total of 1,220 were built: 420 males, 595 females and 205 tank tenders, which were supply tanks.
Four hundred were built, two hundred each of Males and Females. Several were converted to Hermaphrodites (also known as "Composites") by fitting one male and one female sponson so that each tank had a 6-pounder. This measure was intended to ensure that female tanks would not be outgunned when faced with captured British male tanks in German use or the Germans' own A7V.
Crew: 12 (later 10)
Weight 37 tons (37.6 tonnes)
Length/Height/Width : 34 ft 2 in by 10 ft 3 in by 12 ft 4 in (10.4 m by 3.1 m by 3.8 m) (Mark VIII* length 44 ft/13.4 m)
Engine: Ricardo 330 hp (250 kW) petrol (UK), Liberty V12 300 hp (220 kW) (U.S.)
Produced: 24 Total Mark VIIIs
The Mark IX was a troop carrier or infantry supply vehicle – among the first tracked armoured personnel carriers not counting experiments with the lengthened Mk Vs. Thirty-four were built out of an order for 200.
The Mark X was a paper-only project to improve the Mark V, originally known as Mark V***. This was basically a contingency plan in case the Mark VIII project failed (if so a production of 2000 was foreseen for 1919), trying to produce a tank with as many parts of the Mark V as possible but with improved manoeuvrability and crew comfort.
Royal Navy
*HMS Victorious
*HMS Prince George
*HMS Jupiter
*HMS Mars
*HMS Hannibal
*HMS Caesar
*HMS Illustrious
*HMS Canopus
*HMS Glory
*HMS Vengeance
*HMS Implacable
*HMS London
*HMS Venerable
*HMS Queen
*HMS Prince of Wales
*HMS Duncan
*HMS Exmouth
*HMS Commonwealth
*HMS Dominion
*HMS Hindustan
*HMS New Zealand
*HMS Africa
*HMS Hibernia
*HMS Swiftsure
*HMS Lord Nelson
*HMS Agamemnon
*HMS Dreadnought
[spoiler]Bellerophon Class:*HMS Bellerophon
*HMS Superb
*HMS Temeraire
*HMS St Vincent
*HMS Collingwood
*HMS Neptune
*HMS Colossus
*HMS Hercules
*HMS Orion
*HMS Monarch
*HMS Conqueror
*HMS Thunderer
*HMS King George V
*HMS Centurion
*HMS Ajax
*HMS Iron Duke
*HMS Marlborough
*HMS Benbow
*HMS Emperor of India
*HMS Agincourt
*HMS Erin
*HMS Canada
*HMS Queen Elizabeth
*HMS Warspite
*HMS Barham
*HMS Valiant
*HMS Malaya
*HMS Revenge
*HMS Royal Sovereign
*HMS Royal Oak
*HMS Resolution
*HMS Ramillies
*HMS Inflexible
*HMS Indomitable
*HMS New Zealand
*HMS Lion
*HMS Princess Royal
*HMS Tiger
*HMS Renown
*HMS Repulse
*HMS Courageous
*HMS Glorious
*HMS Furious
*HMS Hood
*HMS Anson
*HMS Howe
*HMS Rodney
*HMS Blake
*HMS Blenheim
*HMS Edgar
*HMS Endymion
*HMS Royal Arthur
*HMS Gibraltar
*HMS Grafton
*HMS St George
*HMS Theseus
*HMS Crescent
*HMS Powerful
*HMS Terrible
*HMS Diadem
*HMS Niobe
*HMS Europa
*HMS Andromeda
*HMS Amphitrite
*HMS Argonaut
*HMS Spartiate
*HMS Sutlej
*HMS Bacchante
*HMS Euryalus
*HMS King Alfred
*HMS Leviathan
*HMS Essex
*HMS Kent
*HMS Berwick
*HMS Cornwall
*HMS Cumberland
*HMS Donegal
*HMS Lancaster
*HMS Suffolk
*HMS Devonshire
*HMS Carnarvon
*HMS Antrim
*HMS Roxburgh
*HMS Duke of Edinburgh
*HMS Achilles
*HMS Minotaur
*HMS Shannon
