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At the start of the war, the division was a motor division. It became an infantry division in July 1940, and was redesignated the 56th (London) Infantry Division on 16 November 1940. It ended the war in Italy. [133] [134] 2nd Infantry Division: Existing N/A UK, France, Belgium, British India, Burma
The division soon after deployed to France, as part of the British Expeditionary Force, and it then served on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918. The war establishment, the on-paper strength, of an infantry division in 1914 was 18,179 men, 5,594 horses, 18 motor vehicles, 76 pieces of artillery, and 24 machine guns. While there was a small ...
0–9. History of the British 1st Division (1809–1909) History of the British 1st Division during the world wars; List of wartime orders of battle for the British 1st Division (1809–1945)
By the 1930s, the army had established three types of divisions: the infantry division, the mobile division (later called an armoured division), and the motor division (a motorised infantry division). The primary role of the infantry division was to penetrate the enemy's defensive line, with the support of infantry tanks. Any gap created would ...
1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 1st Airborne Division (United Kingdom) 2nd (African) Division; 3rd Indian Infantry Division; List of wartime orders of battle for the British 3rd Division (1809–1945) 6th Airborne Division (United Kingdom) 11th (East Africa) Division; 81st (West Africa) Division; 82nd (West Africa) Division
Instead, once aboard ship, they were told that they were being taken to Salerno, to join the British 46th Infantry Division. [187] Naples was reached on 1 October 1943 by the 1st King's Dragoon Guards, and the U.S. Fifth Army, which now consisted of five American and three British divisions, reached the line of the Volturno River on 6 October ...
After the British Army's defeat, the division returned to—and defended—the UK. Between June and November 1942, it was reorganised as a "mixed division", which saw an infantry brigade removed replaced by a brigade of tanks. Afterwards, it reverted to an infantry division and was deployed to fight in the Tunisian campaign in 1943.
5th Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Franklyn) I Corps (Lieutenant-General Michael Barker) 1st Infantry Division (Major-General Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander) 2nd Infantry Division (Major-General Henry Charles Loyd) 48th (South Midland) Infantry Division (Major-General Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne)