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== [[South African units in World War I]] ==
 
== [[South African units in World War I]] ==
  
Pages exist for South African Overseas Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted units and brigades that have war diaries. Some units are probably missing.
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Pages exist for South African Overseas Expeditionary Force infantry, machine gun and mounted units and brigades that have war diaries or are mentioned in the Monthly Army List for July 1916. Some units are probably missing.
  
[https://archive.org/details/armylistjul1914grea 1914 British Army List] gives a complete list of pre-war Union Defence Force units.  
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[https://archive.org/details/armylistjul1914grea 1914 British Army List] gives a complete list of pre-war Union Defence Force units. We now have pages for all the mounted and infantry units given in this list.
  
We don't yet know whether any new units were raised for the invasion and occupation of German South-West Africa.
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There were also some commando units that took part in the invasion and occupation of German South-West Africa that aren't in the Army List and don't yet have pages.
  
 
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Revision as of 09:24, 28 May 2016

Populating lists of military units from all the countries involved in the First World War is a huge task.

Albanian units in World War I

Not started. Help!

American units in World War I

Order of Battle. See also U.S. Army WWI Tables of Organization Notes.

See Category:United States for lists of unit pages.

We now have a page for every unit of the following types from divisions that served in Europe:

  • infantry brigades
  • infantry regiments
  • infantry battalions
  • machine gun battalions

We don't yet have:

  • formations of division level and above
  • infantry that didn't serve in Europe
  • all other types of units (artillery, medics, engineers etc.)

Details of these units can be found in the order of battle in the external link above.

Australian units in World War I

Pages exist for all AIF infantry and light horse up to brigade level. ANZAC and Australian corps have pages. Divisions redlinked. Most other AIF units that have war diaries are redlinked (and a few have pages), except for supply and transport, depots and bases, veterinary, and a few other obscure ones. Are there any significant AIF units that don't have war diaries?

Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and its battalions all have pages.

Citizen Military Force (aka Militia): added links to lists of pre-war units in 1914 British Army List but names not redlinked yet.

Permanent Force units listed in 1914 British Army List are redlinked.

The larger RAN warships and some transports are redlinked but there may be more transports, supply ships and smaller armed vessels missing. The Australian Official History might contain details of missing ships.

Belgian units in World War I

Not started. British Official History includes Belgian order of battle for 1914. A few Belgian artillery units later fought under British command and have war diaries in WO 95.

British units in World War I

Pages now exist for every infantry battalion mentioned in E.A. James, British Regiments 1914-1918. This covers all branches except Volunteer Training Corps. We still need a fuller list of VTC regiments and battalions, and their later affiliations to regular regiments, but have some red links. Some provisional battalions might be missing if they were disbanded before the middle of 1916. Some RDC battalions might be missing if they were never part of other regiments. We don't have any information on RDC companies yet. We probably have all the naval and marine battalions and brigades that were in 63rd.

Pages also exist for every tactical corps and division (except perhaps some divisions that only existed for a short time), and all armies and expeditionary forces in European theatres (except home forces armies and Kitchener's new armies). Some infantry brigades (that don't have war diaries) and lots of other formations (especially in lines of communications and non-European theatres) are still missing.

Units from parts of the British Empire outside Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom have been split off into British colonial units in World War I but might be brought back.

Pages now exist for all British machine gun units that have war diaries plus the administrative organisation of the Machine Gun Corps and the Machine Gun Training Centre.

Pages now exist for:

  • every regular cavalry and yeomanry regiment and brigade known to have existed, some squadrons that operated independently, and the administrative hierarchy of the cavalry.
  • every cyclist battalion and company that has war diaries.
  • every Royal Horse Artillery unit that has war diaries.

The majority of administrative corps and departments have basic pages and most of the rest are redlinked but there might still be some obscure ones missing. See Constitution of the Military Forces of the British Crown for a more comprehensive list.

Canadian units in World War I

Canadian Expeditionary Force now has pages for:

  • Canadian Corps, all divisions, and infantry and cavalry brigades
  • infantry battalions except pioneers and reserve battalions
  • most machine gun units and brigade trench mortar batteries

1914 British Army List includes a complete list of pre-war Militia units.

Chinese units in World War I

We have basic information and further sources about the Chinese Labour Corps but no detailed list of units, and no information about the composition of the Chinese Army.

French units in World War I

War diaries all online. No permalinks to individual units, but at least gives a list of unit names.

British Official History includes French order of battle for 1914.

Wikipedia has pages for some formations. These army pages lead to pages for some component corps and divisions:

General information at Wikipedia: French Army in World War I.

Corps Expeditionnaire d'Orient was the main French formation at Gallipoli.

Greek units in World War I

Not started. Help!

Indian units in World War I

Pages exist for all divisions that existed (infantry and cavalry), and for (probably) all infantry battalions and brigades that have war diaries. The missing battalions and brigades don't have redlinks.

Hart's Annual Army List, 1914 includes what looks like a complete list of the full names of pre-war Indian regiments.

Pages now exist for all cavalry regiments and brigades that existed, and all machine gun units that have war diaries and can be unambiguously identified as Indian.

Italian units in World War I

Started, but no definitive online sources (that I could find). Some published sources available.

Japanese units in World War I

Not started.

Montenegrin units in World War I

Not started. Help!

New Zealand units in World War I

Started. Should be complete for infantry, lots more other possible units could be added (some listed on the talk page).

Portuguese units in World War I

Redlinked Western Front infantry battalions, brigades and divisions.

Linked to external site that seems to give complete list of units at home, on Western Front and in Africa (all in Portuguese but military terminology is fairly easy to translate).

Romanian units in World War I

Not started.

Russian units in World War I

Not started.

Serbian units in World War I

Not started.

South African units in World War I

Pages exist for South African Overseas Expeditionary Force infantry, machine gun and mounted units and brigades that have war diaries or are mentioned in the Monthly Army List for July 1916. Some units are probably missing.

1914 British Army List gives a complete list of pre-war Union Defence Force units. We now have pages for all the mounted and infantry units given in this list.

There were also some commando units that took part in the invasion and occupation of German South-West Africa that aren't in the Army List and don't yet have pages.