Army) 4 May 1943 North Irish Horse 7eme Régiment Tirallieurs Algériens 1st Army Group Royal Artillery British 1st Infantry Division British 46th Infantry Division (139th Infantry Brigade Group detached) British 78th Infantry Division V Corps British Eighth Army (9 April 1945) 8th Indian Infantry Division (Major-General Dudley Russell) British 56th Infantry Division (Major-General John Yeldham Whitfield) British 78th Infantry Division (Major-General Keith Arbuthnott) 2nd New Zealand Division (Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg) (until 14 April) Cremona Combat Group (Italian) Royal Artillery 54th Super Heavy Regiment less two batteries 5th Survey Regiment 57th (Wessex) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment less one battery 52nd (East Lancashire) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment 651st Air OP Squadron 654th Air OP Squadron 323rd Searchlight Battery 17th Field Regiment one battery 57th (East Surrey) Anti-Tank Regiment, one battery 55th (Kent) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment one battery V Corps Troops, Royal Engineers 42nd Field Company 564th Field Company 565th Field Company 751st Field Company 215th Corps Field Park Company 22nd Mechanical Equipment Platoon 586th Army Field Company 85th Company, South African Engineer Corps (Camouflage detachment) 5th (London) Corps Signals, Royal Corps of Signals 3 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps General Officers Commanding Commanders included: 8 February – 8 May 1915 Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Plumer 8 May – 23 October 1915 Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Allenby 23 October 1915 – 5 July 1916 Lieutenant-General Hew Fanshawe 5 July – 11 August 1916 Lieutenant-General Edward Fanshawe 11 August – 17 August 1916 Major-General Oliver Nugent (acting) 17 August 16 – 28 April 1918 Lieutenant-General Edward Fanshawe 28 April 1918 – 1919 Lieutenant-General Cameron Shute 1 June 1940 – 10 July 1940 Lieutenant-General Claude Auchinleck 22 July 1940 – 1 April 1941 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery 1 April 1941 – 8 March 1942 Major-General Edmond Schreiber 9 March 1942 – 8 August 1944 Lieutenant-General Charles Allfrey 1944 – 1945 Lieutenant-General Charles Keightley Notes References Col John K. Dunlop, The Development of the British Army 1899–1914, London: Methuen, 1938. John Keegan (ed), Churchill's Generals, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991. James L. McWilliams and R. James Steel, Gas! The Battle for Ypres, 1915, St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 1985 (). Official History Brig-Gen Sir James E. Edmonds and Capt G. C. Wynne, Military Operations, France and Belgium 1915, Volume I, Winter 1914–15: Battle of Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, London: Macmillan, 1927. Brig-Gen Sir James E. Edmonds, Military Operations, France and Belgium 1916, Volume I, Sir Douglas Haig's