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Fifth Army (United Kingdom)

The Fifth Army was a field army of the British Army during World War I that formed part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front between 1916 and 1918. The army originated as the Reserve Corps during the preparations for the British part of the Somme Offensive of 1916, was renamed Reserve Army when it was expanded and became the Fifth Army in October 1916.

Fifth Army

1916–1918

United Kingdom

British Army

Army

Operations on the Western Front, 1916–1918

Varied

First World War

Hubert Gough
Henry Rawlinson
William Peyton
William Birdwood

October 1916 – March 1918 General

Sir Hubert Gough

April–May 1918 General

Sir William Peyton

May–November 1918 General

Sir William Birdwood

(1968) [1931]. The Fifth Army (repr. Cedric Chivers ed.). London: Hodder & Stoughton. OCLC 59766599.

Gough, H. de la P.

(1921). The Fifth Army in March 1918 (online ed.). New York: John Lane. OCLC 565269494. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

Shaw Sparrow, W.

Triplet, William S. (2000). (ed.). A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press. pp. 72, 75–76. ISBN 0-8262-1290-5. LCCN 00029921. OCLC 43707198.

Ferrell, Robert H.