Talk:List of British mobile brigades during the Second World War

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Leaguer vs Laager

Following examples in IWM collection ( "Original wartime caption: This 37 mm gun, found in the leaguer, was taken away and is now in use against the enemy. Its crew seem well pleased with it."), I found OED and then TM 30-410 Handbook on the British army : with supplements on the Royal Air Force and civilian defense organizations September 30, 1942 "Leaguering (bivouacs of armoured formations)" gives vehicle spacing and sentry placement. p210.

The word, meaning 'military camp' comes from Dutch in 16th C. (OED "leaguer, n.1". OED Online. Oxford University Press.) which is the origin of laager so the explanation in the US document is a bit off (the authors probably didn't read Holinshed, Johnson etc).GraemeLeggett (talk) 13:03, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I did go looking to see if there was something relevant on the bivouac article (redirects to military camp) but there wasn't. Could probably use something on brigade boxes too. GraemeLeggett (talk) 18:57, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]