V Corps (United Kingdom)

V Corps
Formation Sign of V Corps during the Second World War.[1]
Active	1915–1919 1940–1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Corps
Engagements	First World War:[2][3] Battle of Hill 60 Second Battle of Ypres Battle of Frezenberg Ridge Battle of Bellewarde Ridge Actions at The Bluff and St Eloi Battle of the Somme (1916) Battle of the Ancre (1916) Operation Alberich First and Second Battle of Bullecourt Third Battle of Ypres Battle of Cambrai (1917) First Battle of Bapaume First Battle of Arras (1918) Battle of the Ancre (1918) Second Battle of the Somme (1918) Battles of the Hindenburg Line Final Advance in Picardy Second World War: Tunisia Campaign Operation Torch Italian Campaign Allied invasion of Italy Advance from the Sangro Moro River Campaign Adriatic Coast Gothic Line Spring 1945 offensive in Italy
Commanders
Notable commanders	Sir Herbert Plumer Sir Edmund Allenby Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe Sir Edward Fanshawe Cameron Shute Sir Claude Auchinleck Sir Bernard Montgomery Sir Edmond Schreiber Sir Charles Allfrey Sir Charles Keightley
Insignia
Corps formation sign during the First World War.[4]

V Corps was an army corps of the British Army that saw service in both the First and the Second World Wars. It was first organised in February 1915 and fought through the First World War on the Western front. It was recreated in June 1940, during the Second World War and was substantially reorganised in 1942 for participation in Operation Torch. It fought through the Tunisia Campaign and later the Italian Campaign.