Fifth Army, British Army

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Fifth Army, British Army
Years active:	unknown – unknown
Country:	United Kingdom
Service:	British Army
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Type:	Formation
Specific type:	Army
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Name1:	Reserve Army
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Name2:	Fifth Army
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Tactical
Parent unit:	British Expeditionary Force
Parent level:	Expeditionary force
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Command structure
Relationship type:	Tactical
Subordinate unit:	Army Troops, Fifth Army, UK
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Theatre of war
Theatre name:	France, Belgium and Germany
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Personal narratives

William Birdwood

Australian War Memorial: 3DRL/3376 is a large collection of personal and official papers of Template:RefLives, later Lord Birdwood, who was commander of:

• Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (April 1915 to November 1915)
• Dardanelles Army, UK (November 1915 to January 1916)
• II ANZAC Corps (February to March 1916)
• I ANZAC Corps (March 1916 to November 1917)
• Australian Corps (November 1917 to May 1918)
• Fifth Army, UK (from May 1918)

The collection includes letters, diaries and official despatches. It covers all of Birdwood's career in the First World War but is particularly strong on the Gallipoli campaign.

Official sources

Unit war diaries

• Template:WarDiaryTNA

Unit histories

• Template:RefOB

Other official documents

• Template:RefTNA Intelligence summaries.
• Australian War Memorial: 3DRL/3376, Birdwood papers includes many official as well as personal documents.

Other sources

• Chris Baker, The Long, Long Trail: British Fifth Army in France and Flanders 1914-1918

References

This page contains data imported from the UK National Archives Discovery catalogue, licensed under Open Government Licence v2.0.