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The '''British Army''' was one branch of [[Great Britain]]'s military. [[The Doctor]] has worked directly with the British Army on a number of occasions; he has also been involved with them via UNIT.
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The '''British Army''' was a branch of the [[United Kingdom]]'s military. [[The Doctor]] worked directly with them on occasion ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'', ''[[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]''); he was also involved with them through [[UNIT]].
 
Historically, they were colloquially referred to as '''British Redcoats'''. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')
 
By the mid [[2000s]], the British Army was highly regarded around the world. Over the years they fought in [[Northern Ireland]], the [[Falklands]], [[Bosnia]], [[Kosovo]] and the [[Gulf War|Gulf]]. They were involved in numerous peacekeeping operations around the world. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Another Life (novel)|Another Life]]'')
 
== History ==
=== 18th century ===
In [[1746]], British troops fought against the [[Jacobite]]s in the [[Battle of Culloden]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')
 
=== 19th century ===
In the early [[19th century]], the British fought against [[Napoleon Bonaparte|Napoleon]] in the [[Napoleonic Wars]]. Under the [[Arthur Wellesley|Duke of Wellington]], the British defeated the [[France|French]] at the [[Battle of Waterloo]] on [[18 June]] [[1815]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'')
 
==== Victorian era ====
During the [[First Afghan War]], the British Army was afflicted by poor planning and leadership, leading to huge disasters such as the retreat from [[Kabul]] in [[1842]]. A new British army invaded [[Afghanistan]] later that year, ending the war, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Mire and Clay (short story)|Mire and Clay]]'') although the [[British Empire]] became involved in [[Second Afghan War|further engagements]] in Afghanistan in later years. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'')
 
From [[1853]] to [[1856]], the British, with French and [[Turkey (country)|Turkish]] allies, fought against the [[Russia]]ns in the [[Crimean War]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Evil of the Daleks (TV story)|The Evil of the Daleks]]'') A miscommunication on [[25 October]] [[1854]] led to the infamous [[Charge of the Light Brigade]], where a light British [[Horse|cavalry]] brigade was sent to advance upon the wrong Russia positions and were slaughtered. [[Florence Nightingale]] arrived at the [[Scutari]] barracks on [[18 November]] 1854 and helped clean up the [[Medicine man|medical]] institutions to provide better aid for the sick and wounded soldiers. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari (audio story)|The Angel of Scutari]]'')


Following the formation of [[UNIT]] the British army appointed a [[UNIT]] liaison officer to whom the officer in charge of the British branch of UNIT report. At the time of the [[Auton]] incident Maj. General [[Scobie]] was the British Army's UNIT liaison officer. UNIT troops were usually members of the British Army serving on detached duty and as such were subject to the orders of British Army officers of superior rank or could issue orders to British Army soldiers. ([[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]'')
After the end of the [[Indian Mutiny]] in [[1857]], the British Army was sent into [[India]] to maintain order. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'')


Whilst the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] in [[2007]] raged, the British Army fought the invaders across [[London]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]'')
=== 20th century ===
==== World War I ====
From [[1914]] to [[1918]], Britain and its allies fought in [[World War I]] against [[Germany]] and the [[Central Powers]]. Some of the battles the British were involved in included [[Battle of Passchendaele|Passchendaele]], [[Battle of the Somme|the Somme]], [[Verdun]] and [[Ypres]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Next Life (audio story)|The Next Life]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Byzantium! (novel)|Byzantium!]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (novelisation)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Illegal Alien (novel)|Illegal Alien]]'') A million British soldiers died during the war. ([[TV]]: ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')


===Appearances===
In World War I, several British troops, also called "Tommies", were abducted by the [[War Lord]]s for their [[War Game]]s. They helped the [[Second Doctor]] and his friends defeat the War Lords. The surviving troops were sent by the [[Time Lord]]s to their right time zone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
*[[DW]]: ''[[The War Machines]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Highlanders]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Web of Fear]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The War Games]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos ]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[The Empty Child]]'' / ''[[The Doctor Dances]]''
*[[DW]]: ''[[Doomsday]]''


==Members==
At a different point in World War I, the [[New Dalek Paradigm]] interfered in the course of the war by influencing British and German industrialists to manufacture robotic, [[Proto-Dalek|Dalek-like drones]], supposedly to assist members of the British and German armies, respectively. However, their true plan was to use the Proto-Daleks to wipe out the British and German soldiers who were aware of their existence, in order to eliminate all evidence of their interference. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Project (comic story)|The Dalek Project]]'')
*Captain [[Bates (Fenric Curse)|Bates]]


==See also==
==== World War II ====
*[[UNIT]]
From [[1939]] to [[1945]], Britain and its allies fought [[World War II]] against [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] and [[Japan]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)|Timewyrm: Exodus]]'', ''[[Magic of the Angels (novel)|Magic of the Angels]]'', ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Casualties of War (audio story)|Casualties of War]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Sky Jacks (comic story)|Sky Jacks]]'')
*[[Royal Air Force]]
*[[Royal Navy]]


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[[File:33.jpg|thumb|Marines being exterminated by a [[Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')]]
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In [[1941]], two British [[marine]]s who came to protect [[Winston Churchill]] were exterminated by the [[Dalek]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')
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==== 1945 - 2000 ====
In the decades following the war, the British Army, facing no realistic possibility of a foreign invasion, "kept itself busy with minor skirmishes, training exercises, [[Northern Ireland]] and peacekeeping for the [[UN]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')
When [[WOTAN]] tried to conquer [[Earth]] on [[20 July]] [[1966]], the British Army fought against its [[War Machine]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
 
Some time before the formation of [[UNIT]], a squad of British Troops led by Colonel [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] (who later founded UNIT) fought against the [[Great Intelligence]] and its [[Robot Yeti]] servants. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'')
 
Following the formation of [[UNIT]], the British Army — often referred to by the organisation's personnel as "the Regular Army" — appointed a UNIT liaison officer to whom the officer in charge of the British branch of UNIT reported. At the time of the [[Auton]] incident, Major-General [[Scobie]] was the British Army's UNIT liaison officer. UNIT troops were usually members of the British Army serving on detached duty, and were thus subject to the orders of British Army officers. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')
 
During the time of ''[[Mars Probe 7]]'', the army had a new Space Security Department headed by [[George Carrington|General George Carrington]]. He called in the Military Police to arrest UNIT, fearing the Brigadier was in league with aliens. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'')
 
[[Anne Hartman]] served in the army until the age of thirty, when she left "dripping in commendations". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rockery (audio story)|The Rockery]]'')
 
In [[1984]], an army bomb disposal squad under Colonel [[Archer (Resurrection of the Daleks)|Archer]] got caught up in a Dalek plot which resulted in them being killed and replaced with [[Dalek duplicate|duplicates]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'')
 
=== 21st century ===
Following the [[London UFO crash]] on [[6 March]] [[2006]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'') or [[28 June]], [[UNIT United Kingdom|UNIT]] liaised with the "regular army"; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Operation London (short story)|Operation London]]'') the army sent [[diver]]s into the [[wreck]] of the [[Slitheen craft (Aliens of London)|spaceship]], where a [[body]] was found and brought ashore. A platoon of soldiers were guarding [[Albion Hospital]], where the hibernating body of the [[Alien (Aliens of London)|alien pilot]] had been taken. They were walked in on by the [[Ninth Doctor]] and they all aimed their rifles at him, though he quickly took charge when they heard a scream. One soldier shot the pig from the spacecraft, much to the Doctor's anger. ([[TV]]: ''[[Aliens of London (TV story)|Aliens of London]]'')
 
Whilst the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] raged in [[2007]], the British Army fought the [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|invaders]] across [[London]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')
 
[[File:Doomsday_042.JPG|thumb|British troops fight [[Cybermen (Pete's World)|Cybermen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'')]]
 
At [[Christmas]] [[2007]], when the [[Racnoss]] [[Webstar]] attacked London, a [[Challenger 2]] British Army Tank acting under orders from [[Harold Saxon]] opened fire and destroyed it as its shields were down. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')
 
In the first decade of the [[21st century]], the British Army were involved in the [[Iraq War]]. Soldiers were killed, including [[Simon Metcalf]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Warriors of Kudlak (TV story)|Warriors of Kudlak]]'', ''[[To the Last Man (TV story)|To the Last Man]]'')
 
In [[September]] [[2009]], when [[the 456]] demanded that ten percent of Earth's children be taken to them, soldiers were ordered to round up the lowest performing ten percent of the UK's children and hand them over to the 456. They stood down when the 456 were destroyed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Children of Earth: Day Five (TV story)|Children of Earth: Day Five]]'')
 
During the [[Hyperion (species)|Hyperion]] invasion of [[Britain]] in [[summer]] [[2015]], the army attempted to oppose them but were killed as the invaders "[burnt] through" them, transforming them into [[the Scorched]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hyperion Empire (comic story)|The Hyperion Empire]]'')
 
[[File:Army assault squad (Worlds Apart).png|thumb|left|An [[Army Assault Squad]] takes on ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Worlds Apart (video game)}}) the [[Reconnaissance Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Resolution (TV story)}})]]A British "army assault squad" ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Worlds Apart (video game)}}) led by a [[Sergeant (Resolution)|Sergeant]] engaged the [[Reconnaissance Dalek]] on British soil on [[1 January]] [[2019]],. They were all exterminated by the Dalek, who used a missile to destroy a [[tank]] sent against it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Resolution (TV story)|Resolution]]'')
 
In [[2020]], [[Sally Morgan]] served as a private in the King's New Delta Squadron of the British Army. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
 
By the [[2020s]], the British Army had been privatised. Certain units performed private security work. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Signs and Wonders (audio story)|Signs and Wonders]]'')
 
In [[2048]], after the [[Korven]] [[Lomax]] hijacked the [[British government]] and created [[the Department]], the [[cyborg]] [[CCPC]] acted as the army of the United Kingdom, although they were referred to as a [[police]] force. ([[TV]]: ''[[Regeneration (TV story)|Regeneration]]'', ''[[Liberation (TV story)|Liberation]]'', et al.)
 
=== Later history ===
When a [[Dalek flying saucer]] attacked [[London]] as part of their [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth|invasion of Earth]] in the [[22nd century]], the British Army sent tanks to fight off the invaders, but in a matter of days they were defeated by the Daleks. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Invasion Earth: 2164 (short story)|Invasion Earth: 2164]]'')
 
=== Other realities ===
When [[Britain]] closed its borders in [[parallel world (Turn Left)|a parallel world]] in approximately the [[2000s]],{{note|The present day of ''[[Doctor Who]]''{{'}}s [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|fourth series]] is [[Aliens of London dating controversy|not consistently dated]], with [[TV]]: ''[[The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)|The Fires of Pompeii]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Waters of Mars (TV story)|The Waters of Mars]]'', and [[AUDIO]]: ''[[SOS (audio story)|SOS]]'' setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in [[2008]] (heavily implied by [[TV]]: ''[[The Star Beast (TV story)|The Star Beast]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Giggle (TV story)|The Giggle]]'' as well), and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Beautiful Chaos (novel)|Beautiful Chaos]]'' setting them in about [[April]] to [[June]] [[2009]].}} soldiers rounded up foreigners and took them to labour camps. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
 
== Footnotes ==
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Latest revision as of 18:29, 3 November 2024

British Army

The British Army was a branch of the United Kingdom's military. The Doctor worked directly with them on occasion (TV: Aliens of London, Empress of Mars); he was also involved with them through UNIT.

Historically, they were colloquially referred to as British Redcoats. (TV: The Highlanders)

By the mid 2000s, the British Army was highly regarded around the world. Over the years they fought in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Gulf. They were involved in numerous peacekeeping operations around the world. (PROSE: Another Life)

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

18th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 1746, British troops fought against the Jacobites in the Battle of Culloden. (TV: The Highlanders)

19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the early 19th century, the British fought against Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars. Under the Duke of Wellington, the British defeated the French at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. (PROSE: World Game)

Victorian era[[edit] | [edit source]]

During the First Afghan War, the British Army was afflicted by poor planning and leadership, leading to huge disasters such as the retreat from Kabul in 1842. A new British army invaded Afghanistan later that year, ending the war, (PROSE: Mire and Clay) although the British Empire became involved in further engagements in Afghanistan in later years. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

From 1853 to 1856, the British, with French and Turkish allies, fought against the Russians in the Crimean War. (TV: The Evil of the Daleks) A miscommunication on 25 October 1854 led to the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade, where a light British cavalry brigade was sent to advance upon the wrong Russia positions and were slaughtered. Florence Nightingale arrived at the Scutari barracks on 18 November 1854 and helped clean up the medical institutions to provide better aid for the sick and wounded soldiers. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)

After the end of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, the British Army was sent into India to maintain order. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire)

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

World War I[[edit] | [edit source]]

From 1914 to 1918, Britain and its allies fought in World War I against Germany and the Central Powers. Some of the battles the British were involved in included Passchendaele, the Somme, Verdun and Ypres. (TV: To the Last Man, AUDIO: The Next Life, PROSE: Byzantium!, Remembrance of the Daleks, Illegal Alien) A million British soldiers died during the war. (TV: To the Last Man)

In World War I, several British troops, also called "Tommies", were abducted by the War Lords for their War Games. They helped the Second Doctor and his friends defeat the War Lords. The surviving troops were sent by the Time Lords to their right time zone. (TV: The War Games)

At a different point in World War I, the New Dalek Paradigm interfered in the course of the war by influencing British and German industrialists to manufacture robotic, Dalek-like drones, supposedly to assist members of the British and German armies, respectively. However, their true plan was to use the Proto-Daleks to wipe out the British and German soldiers who were aware of their existence, in order to eliminate all evidence of their interference. (COMIC: The Dalek Project)

World War II[[edit] | [edit source]]

From 1939 to 1945, Britain and its allies fought World War II against Nazi Germany and Japan. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus, Magic of the Angels, Victory of the Daleks; AUDIO: Casualties of War; COMIC: Sky Jacks)

Marines being exterminated by a Dalek. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)

In 1941, two British marines who came to protect Winston Churchill were exterminated by the Daleks. (TV: Victory of the Daleks)

1945 - 2000[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the decades following the war, the British Army, facing no realistic possibility of a foreign invasion, "kept itself busy with minor skirmishes, training exercises, Northern Ireland and peacekeeping for the UN." (PROSE: The Dying Days)

When WOTAN tried to conquer Earth on 20 July 1966, the British Army fought against its War Machines. (TV: The War Machines)

Some time before the formation of UNIT, a squad of British Troops led by Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (who later founded UNIT) fought against the Great Intelligence and its Robot Yeti servants. (TV: The Web of Fear)

Following the formation of UNIT, the British Army — often referred to by the organisation's personnel as "the Regular Army" — appointed a UNIT liaison officer to whom the officer in charge of the British branch of UNIT reported. At the time of the Auton incident, Major-General Scobie was the British Army's UNIT liaison officer. UNIT troops were usually members of the British Army serving on detached duty, and were thus subject to the orders of British Army officers. (TV: Spearhead from Space)

During the time of Mars Probe 7, the army had a new Space Security Department headed by General George Carrington. He called in the Military Police to arrest UNIT, fearing the Brigadier was in league with aliens. (TV: The Ambassadors of Death)

Anne Hartman served in the army until the age of thirty, when she left "dripping in commendations". (AUDIO: The Rockery)

In 1984, an army bomb disposal squad under Colonel Archer got caught up in a Dalek plot which resulted in them being killed and replaced with duplicates. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Following the London UFO crash on 6 March 2006 (TV: Aliens of London) or 28 June, UNIT liaised with the "regular army"; (PROSE: Operation London) the army sent divers into the wreck of the spaceship, where a body was found and brought ashore. A platoon of soldiers were guarding Albion Hospital, where the hibernating body of the alien pilot had been taken. They were walked in on by the Ninth Doctor and they all aimed their rifles at him, though he quickly took charge when they heard a scream. One soldier shot the pig from the spacecraft, much to the Doctor's anger. (TV: Aliens of London)

Whilst the Battle of Canary Wharf raged in 2007, the British Army fought the invaders across London. (TV: Doomsday)

British troops fight Cybermen. (TV: Doomsday)

At Christmas 2007, when the Racnoss Webstar attacked London, a Challenger 2 British Army Tank acting under orders from Harold Saxon opened fire and destroyed it as its shields were down. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

In the first decade of the 21st century, the British Army were involved in the Iraq War. Soldiers were killed, including Simon Metcalf. (TV: Warriors of Kudlak, To the Last Man)

In September 2009, when the 456 demanded that ten percent of Earth's children be taken to them, soldiers were ordered to round up the lowest performing ten percent of the UK's children and hand them over to the 456. They stood down when the 456 were destroyed. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Five)

During the Hyperion invasion of Britain in summer 2015, the army attempted to oppose them but were killed as the invaders "[burnt] through" them, transforming them into the Scorched. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire)

An Army Assault Squad takes on (GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"]) the Reconnaissance Dalek. (TV: Resolution [+]Loading...["Resolution (TV story)"])

A British "army assault squad" (GAME: Worlds Apart [+]Loading...["Worlds Apart (video game)"]) led by a Sergeant engaged the Reconnaissance Dalek on British soil on 1 January 2019,. They were all exterminated by the Dalek, who used a missile to destroy a tank sent against it. (TV: Resolution)

In 2020, Sally Morgan served as a private in the King's New Delta Squadron of the British Army. (AUDIO: Black and White)

By the 2020s, the British Army had been privatised. Certain units performed private security work. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders)

In 2048, after the Korven Lomax hijacked the British government and created the Department, the cyborg CCPC acted as the army of the United Kingdom, although they were referred to as a police force. (TV: Regeneration, Liberation, et al.)

Later history[[edit] | [edit source]]

When a Dalek flying saucer attacked London as part of their invasion of Earth in the 22nd century, the British Army sent tanks to fight off the invaders, but in a matter of days they were defeated by the Daleks. (PROSE: Invasion Earth: 2164)

Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]

When Britain closed its borders in a parallel world in approximately the 2000s,[nb 1] soldiers rounded up foreigners and took them to labour camps. (TV: Turn Left)

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. The present day of Doctor Who's fourth series is not consistently dated, with TV: The Fires of Pompeii, TV: The Waters of Mars, and AUDIO: SOS setting the present of the 13 regular episodes in 2008 (heavily implied by TV: The Star Beast and TV: The Giggle as well), and PROSE: Beautiful Chaos setting them in about April to June 2009.