X Corps (United Kingdom)

X Corps
Formation sign of X Corps during the Second World War (second pattern).[1]
Active	1915–1919 1940–1945
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Corps
Engagements	World War I Battle of the Somme Battle of Messines Third Battle of Ypres Fifth Battle of Ypres World War II North African campaign Second Battle of El Alamein
Commanders
Notable commanders	Thomas Morland William Peyton Reginald Stephens William Holmes Herbert Lumsden Brian Horrocks Richard McCreery
Insignia
Corps formation sign during the early part of the Second World War (first pattern).[1]
Corps formation sign during the First World War (an unaltered corps flag).[2]

X Corps was a corps of the British Army that served in the First World War on the Western Front before being disbanded in 1919. The corps was re-formed in 1942 during the Second World War and saw service in the North African Campaign and the Italian Campaign where it came under command of the US Fifth Army and the British Eighth Army.