[FH] Royal Navy

Uncovered my father-in-law's copy of Imperial Military
Geography, 1935.

NAVY:
RN: 15 BB + BC, 44 cruisers, 7 CV, 146 DD and flotilla leaders,
54 subs. Royal Oz Navy: 4 cruisers, 1 CV, 11 DD RCN: 4 DD NZ Squadron: 2
cruisers

It is possible that the dominions had other ships and these were just the ones
committed to aid the RN. I wouldn't think so, but there are entries for Union
of S Africa Naval Service and for
Royal Indian Navy with no ships in either--presumably they did
have some ships, though? Under construction at that time, 4 capital, 18 subs,
2 CV and 12 DD.

ARMY: British Regular Army had 199,000 men, of which 110,000 were at Home,
30,000 in various colonies (Gibralter, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong etc) and
59,000 in India. In addition, 144,000 in reserves and 130,000 in Territorial
Army which would provide the home guard. Dominions other than India had about
13,000 permanent troops (total), of which Ireland had 6000. India had Indian
State forces and the Indian Army, totaling about 211,000 with another 80,000
or so auxiliary troops. Mandates (eg East African, Transjordan, Sudan) total
about 13,000 more. Leaving out the 80,000 Indian auxiliaries, the reserves and
the Territorial (Home Guard) units, the total is 436,000 permanent troops
serving in a population of 490 million, or 1 in 1120. The US at that time
("the most constant advocate of disarmament") had 1 in 914; Japan 1 in 656;
France 1 in 144; and Germany ("when rearmament is complete") 1 in 129. Those
figures are for army only, not including navy and air forces.

BASES Outside the Home bases, only Gibralter, Malta and Singapore were
equipped to repair capital ships; no others were equipped for more than 10,000
tons (cruisers) or below.

--Chris  DeBoe