Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:12 pm
Hobbes wrote:Should the British force be labelled B.E.F. as this seems to be a term
first used in WW1? Anyone know an acronym used for British overseas forces during this time?
The British forces in the Crimean War were refered to as the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). I would imagine that forces allocated to an intervention in ACW would have been called the same thing.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
'Nous voilà, Lafayette'
Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917