Orders of Battle - Sources Reference Page

Sources

This database is being built from many sources including Official Histories (United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India) and other history books and web sites in both English and German such as regimental and formation histories, campaign histories, biographies, official war diaries etc.

Please note that this list of published histories is not complete and will be updated on a regular basis.

Sources - Army Lists
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
Australian Army Gradation List January 1945		1	N/A	1945
Canadian Army Gradation Lists 1943-1945		0	N/A	1945
Cullum's Biographical Register of the United States Military Academy		9	Colonel Charles N Branham (ed)	1950
Services of British Army Officers 1939-45 &cc	Reprint of the 1945 Half-Yearly Army List	0	The War Office	1999
The Army List	October 1940	0	N/A	1940
The Army List	April 1941	0	N/A	1941
The Army List	January 1950	0	N/A	1950

Sources - General
Title	Sub-Title	Author	Year
Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War		Nick Smart	2005
The Commonwealth Armies	Manpower and organisation in two world wars	FW Perry	1988
Tobruk	The Great Siege Reassessed	Frank Harrison	1996

Sources - German Language
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
Armee unter dem Roten Stern	Die militärischen Kräfte der Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken	0	Kurt Mehner	1999
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Formationsgeschichte des Heers und des Ersatzheeres 1939-1945 Teil A	1	Veit Scherzer	2007
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Formationsgeschichte des Heers und des Ersatzheeres 1939-1945 Teil B	1	Veit Scherzer	2007
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Die Divisionen 1-3	2	Veit Scherzer	2007
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Die Divisionen 4-8	3	Veit Scherzer	2008
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Die Divisionen 9-14	4	Veit Scherzer	2008
Deutsche Truppen im Zweiten Weltkrieg	Die Divisionen 15-20	5	Veit Scherzer	2009
Deutsche Verbände und Truppen 1918-1939		0	Georg Tessin	1974
Deutschlands Generale und Admirale Teil IV	Die Generale Des Heeres 1921-1945 Da-Fi	3	Dermot Bradley	1994
Deutschlands Generale und Admirale Teil IV	Die Generale Des Heeres 1921-1945 Fl-Gy	4	Dermot Bradley	1996
Die deutsche Wehrmacht 1939-1945	Schriftenreihe Führung und Truppe	1	Kurt Mehner	1993
Die Dienstlaufbahnen der Offiziere des Generstabes des deutschen Heeres 1935-1945	A-K	1	Christian Zweng	1995
Die Dienstlaufbahnen der Offiziere des Generstabes des deutschen Heeres 1935-1945	L-Z	2	Christian Zweng	1998
Die geheimen Tagesberichte der Deutschen Wehrmachtführung in Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945	Band 1 September 1939-April 1940 Teil 1	1	Kurt Mehner	1995
Die geheimen Tagesberichte der Deutschen Wehrmachtführung in Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939-1945	Band 1 September 1939-April 1940 Teil 2	1	Kurt Mehner	1995
Formationsgeschichte und Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Streitkräfte 1815-1990 Teil IV Abteilung 1	Die Dienststellen, Kommandobehorden und Truppenteile des Heeres 1935-1945 Nr 1-10	1	Günter Wegmann	1998
Formationsgeschichte und Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Streitkräfte 1815-1990 Teil IV Abteilung 1	Die Dienststellen, Kommandobehorden und Truppenteile des Heeres 1935-1945 Nr 11-30	2	Günter Wegmann	2000
Handbuch der Verbande und Truppen des deutschen Heeres 1914-1918	Infanterie-Regimenter Band 1	6	Jürgen Kraus	2007
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Waffengattungen - Gesamtübersicht	1	Georg Tessin	1979
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte 1-5	2	Georg Tessin	1973
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte 6-14	3	Georg Tessin	1974
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte 15-30	4	Georg Tessin	1976
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte 31-70	5	Georg Tessin	1977
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte 71-130	6	Georg Tessin	1979
Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS 1939-1945	Die Landstreitkräfte: Namensverbände	14	Georg Tessin	1980

Sources - Internet Sources
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
CANUCK	See Links Page for Link	0	N/A	2000
Commonwealth Orders of Battle 1939-45 Web Site	See Links Page for Link	0	David Ryan	2004

Sources - Official Histories
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	To Benghazi	1	Gavin Long	1952
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	Greece Crete and Syria	2	Gavin Long	1953
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	Tobruk and El Alamein	3	Barton Maughan	1987
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	The Japanese Thrust	4	Lionel Wigmore	1957
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	South West Pacific Area - First Year - Kokoda to Wau	5	Dudley McCarthy	1959
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	The New Guinea Offensives	6	David Dexter	1961
Australia in the War of 1939-1945	The Final Campaigns	7	Gavin Long	1963
Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939-45	To Greece	1	WG McClymont	1959
South African Forces World War II	War in the Desert	3	N Orpen	1971
The Defence of the United Kingdom		0	Basil Collier	1957
The Mediterranean and Middle East		1	Major-General ISO Playfair	1954
The Mediterranean and Middle East		2	Major-General ISO Playfair	1956
The Mediterranean and Middle East		3	Major-General ISO Playfair	1960
The Mediterranean and Middle East		4	Major-General ISO Playfair	1966
The Mediterranean and Middle East		5	Brigadier CJC Molony	1973
The Mediterranean and Middle East	Part 1	6	Brigadier CJC Molony	1984
The Mediterranean and Middle East	Part 2	6	General Sir William Jackson	1987
The Mediterranean and Middle East	Part 3	6	General Sir William Jackson	1988
The Sidi Rezeg Battles 1941		0	JAI Agar-Hamilton	1957
The War against Japan		1	Major-General S Woodburn Kirby	1957
The War against Japan		2	Major-General S Woodburn Kirby	1958
The War against Japan		3	Major-General S Woodburn Kirby	1961
The War against Japan		4	Major-General S Woodburn Kirby	1965
The War in France and Flanders		0	Major LF Ellis	1953

Sources - Orders of Battle
Title	Sub-Title	Author	Year
Order of Battle of the United States Army World War II European Theater of Operations	http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/documents/ETO-OB/ETOOB-TOC.htm	Office of the Theater Historian	1945
Order of Battle US Army, World War II		Shelby Stanton	1984
Orders of Battle		Lt-Col HF Joslen	1960

Sources - Organisational Histories
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
8 Corps: Normandy to the Baltic		0	Lt-Col GS Jackson	1948
Australia's Forgotten Army	The Ebb and Flow of the Australian Army in Western Australia 1941-1945	1	Graham R. McKenzie-Smith	1994
Australia's Forgotten Army	Defending the Northern Gateways Northern Territory and Torres Strait 1938-1945	2	Graham R. McKenzie-Smith	1995
History of 7th Armoured Division	June 1943-July 1945	0	N/A	1945
Loyalty and Honour, The Indian Army 1939-1947	Divisions	1	Chris Kempton	2003
Loyalty and Honour, The Indian Army 1939-1947	Brigades	2	Chris Kempton	2003
Loyalty and Honour, The Indian Army 1939-1947		3	Chris Kempton	2003
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	British Armoured and Cavalry Divisions	1	David Hughes	1999
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	Commonwealth Armoured Divisions and British Regular Infantry Divisions	2	David Hughes	2000
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	British Infantry, Mountain, Reserve and County Divisions	3	David Hughes	2001
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	British Tank and Armoured Brigades	4	David Hughes	2002
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	The Australian Army	5	David Ryan	2003
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	The Canadian Army	6	David Hughes	2003
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	The New Zealand Army The South African Army	7	David Ryan	2004
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	The Indian Army in the West	8	David Hughes	2004
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	The Indian Army in the East	9	David Hughes	2004
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	Supplement One Orders of Battle 1939-1941	11	David Ryan	2001
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	Supplement Two Orders of Battle 1941-1942	12	David Ryan	2002
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	Supplement Three Orders of Battle 1942-1944	13	David Ryan	2003
The British Armies in World War Two An Organisational History	Supplement Four Orders of Battle 1944-1945	14	David Ryan	2005
The Fourth Division	1939 to 1945	0	Hugh Williamson	1952
The History of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in the Second World War		0	Brig CN Barclay	2006
The Path of the 50th	The story of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division 1939-1945	0	Maj Ewart Clay	1947
The Story of 46 Division 1939-1945		0	N/A	1946
The Story of 5 Army Group Royal Artillery		0	N/A	1946

Sources - Regimental Histories
Title	Sub-Title	Volume	Author	Year
Battle Honours of the British and Commonwealth Armies		0	Anthony Baker	1986
Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662-1991		1	Alexander Rodger	2003
History of the 15th Scottish Division		0	Lieutenant-General HG Martin	1948
History of the King's Dragoon Guards 1938-1945		0	Colonel D McCorquodale	1946
History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery	The Far East Theatre 1941-46	0	General Sir Martin Farndale	2002
History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery	The Years of Defeat 1939-41	0	General Sir Martin Farndale	1996
History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery	Between the Wars 1919-39	0	Major General BP Hughes (ed)	1992
Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978		1	JBM Frederick	1984
Lineage Book of British Land Forces 1660-1978		2	JBM Frederick	1984
One and All	A History of the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 1702-1959	0	Hugo White	2004
Regiments of the British Army 1939-1945	(Armour and Infantry)	1	Malcolm Bellis	1994
Regiments of the British Army 1939-1945	(Artillery)	2	Malcolm Bellis	1995
Swift and Bold	The King's Royal Rifle Corps 1939-1945	0	Major-General Sir Hereward Wake	1949
The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-1945		1	Captain Nigel Nicolson	1949
The Grenadier Guards in the War of 1939-1945		2	Captain Nigel Nicolson	1949
The Gunners of Canada	The History of the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery 1919-1967	2	Colonel GWL Nicholson	1972
The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Second World War		1	Colonel A Crookenden	1949
The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers		8	Major-General RP Packenham-Walsh	1958
The History of the Corps of Royal Engineers		9	Major-General RP Packenham-Walsh	1958
The History of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment	1919-1952	0	Brigadier CN Barclay	1953
The History of the Guides	Part II 1922-1947	0	Lt-General Sir George MacMunn	1949
The History of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in the Second World War		0	Brig CN Barclay	1952
The Rifle Volunteers	1859-1908	0	Ray Westlake	1982
The Royal Leicestershire Regiment 17th Foot	A History of the Years 1928-1956	0	Brigadier WE Underhill (Ed)	1957
The Saga of the Transvaal Scottish Regiment		0	Carel Birkby (ed)	1950