More Second World War Battalion Commanders

For the past two years on this site I have profiled and caricatured nearly every Canadian infantry and armoured battalion commanding officer in the Second World War. In Normandy and North West Europe, First Canadian Army, however, was not exclusively composed of Canadian units – it included I British Corps and a Polish armoured division, and, at various times, other attached Allied troops. First Canadian Army along with British Second Army made up Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s 21st Army Group, meaning their are hundreds of Allied battalion commanders for me to still research, profile, and sketch.

I have created a useful index of the divisions, brigades, and battalions of 21st Army Group as a separate page, which can be found here. Lists of commanding officers for each battalion are pieced together from unit war diaries, regimental histories and many other sources. My project will now put names and faces to the lieutenant-colonels who led these British and Polish battalions during the eleven months from the landings at Normandy through to the invasion of Germany and the end of the war in Europe.

Formation badge of 21st Army Group, 1943–1945