Northern Army was a home service formation of the

British Army during the First World War The British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its long history. Unlike the French and German Armies, the British Army was made up exclusively of volunteers, as opposed to conscripts, at the beginni ...

, responsible for the defence of

East Anglia East Anglia is an area of the East of England, often defined as including the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, with parts of Essex sometimes also included. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of the East Angles, ...

. It was formed on 11 April 1916 under the command of Sir Bruce Hamilton, with headquarters at Mundford. The Army was composed of 1st Cyclist Division, 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division,

64th (2nd Highland) Division The 64th (2nd Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during the Great War. The division was formed in late 1914 as a second-line Territorial Force formation which served on home defence duties throughout the war ...

and four provisional brigades ( 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th), with

68th (2nd Welsh) Division The 2nd Welsh Division was a 2nd Line Territorial Force division of the British Army in the First World War. The division was formed as a duplicate of the 53rd (Welsh) Division in January 1915. As the name suggests, the division recruited in Wa ...

attached for training purposes.K. Mitchinson, ''Defending Albion: Britain's Home Army 1908-1919'' (2005
p. 126
The Army was disbanded on 16 February 1918.The British Armies of 1914-1918
Accessed 7 June 2017.

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Field armies of the United Kingdom in World War I Military units and formations established in 1916 Military units and formations disestablished in 1918 {{UK-mil-unit-stub