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This is a list of British Army commands and army groups. It is intended as a central point of access information about British formations of that size.

  • Aldershot Command (until 1941)
  • Anti-Aircraft Command
  • Army Headquarters (from 1 November 2011) (see Commander Land Forces)
  • Army Strategic Command (1968–1972)
  • British Army of the Rhine (1945–1994)
  • British Element Trieste Force (BETFOR)
  • 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
  • Far East Land Forces
  • Field Army (c.2015-present)
  • Home Command
  • British India Command
  • Land Command (1995–2008)
  • Land Forces (2008–2011)
  • Malaya Command
  • HQ Malta and Libya (until at least 1967)
  • Middle East Command (1939–1945)
  • Middle East Land Forces, (1945-1976)
  • Near East Land Forces
  • Netherlands East Indies Command (c.1946-1947)
  • Northern Command
  • HQ Northern Ireland
  • Persia and Iraq Command
  • Scottish Command
  • South Eastern Command (1941–1944)
  • Southern Command (until 1972)
  • UK Land Forces (1972–1995)
  • UK Support Command (Germany) (see British Forces Germany)
  • West Africa Command (1941–1956)
  • 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
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