II Corps (United Kingdom)
| II Corps | |
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Formation sign of II Corps during the Second World War. It shows a salmon leaping over a "brook", and was designed in 1939 by the corps' chief of staff, Vyvyan Pope, as a play on the name of Alan Brooke, GOC. | |
| Active | Waterloo Campaign First World War Second World War Post-1945 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Type | Field corps |
| Engagements | Battle of Waterloo First World War:
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| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders | Lord Hill Horace Smith-Dorrien Claud Jacob Alan Brooke Bernard Montgomery (acting) Kenneth Anderson Gerald Templer |
| Insignia | |
| Corps formation sign during the First World War. | |
The II Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War. There had also been a short-lived II Corps during the Waterloo Campaign.