[6] A third Government House, which was built in red brick on Cambridge Road in Portsmouth, was completed in 1882.

As outlined in a paper published in 1903, II Corps was to be formed in a reconstituted Southern Command, with HQ at Salisbury Plain.

[9] At the end of 1914, Lieutenant General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, the GOCinC, left Southern Command to form II Corps in France, and Lieutenant General William Campbell was placed in command.

[10] On 8 March 1916, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sclater, took charge of Southern Command.

Uniquely in Southern Command the background colour of the shield, and occasionally the stars, was changed to show the colours of the service corps of the personnel, other commands used their formation sign with an arm of service stripe (1⁄4 inch (0.64 cm) thick) below it.