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The 51st (Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force, as the Highland Division and later 51st (Highland) Division from 1915. The division's insignia was a ...
Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley, CB, DSO, MC (15 August 1896 – 26 August 1983) was a British Army officer who, during the Second World War, commanded the 51st (Highland) Division for two years, from 1941 to 1943, notably at the Second Battle of El Alamein, before leading it across North Africa and in the Allied campaign in Sicily.
On 12 December Rennie was promoted to the acting rank of major-general and received a new appointment as the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 3rd Infantry Division. [3] The 3rd Division was one of the original divisions of the Regular Army and had fought under Montgomery's command with the BEF in 1940.
Command of the corps was given to Major-General Victor Fortune of the Highland Division, who was under the command of General Robert Altmayer the Tenth Army commander. After almost continuous fighting against a German bridgehead on the south bank at Abbeville, the division was ordered to retreat on 7 June, to a 13 mi (21 km) defensive line ...
The 1st Forfarshire Artillery Volunteers was a part-time unit of the British Army's Royal Artillery founded in Forfarshire (now Angus) in Scotland in 1859. It served with 51st (Highland) Division through many of the major battles on the Western Front during the First World War.
51st (Highland) Division was in the first follow-up wave of formations in Overlord. On 2 June 1944 it embarked at East India Docks, London, bound for Normandy and began landing on 7 June (D + 1). [39] [79] The first troops ashore on D + 1 included 242 A/T Bty with 153 Bde Gp and the 17-pdr Trp of 193 A/T Bty with Divisional troops. [80]
British Army: Years of service: 1918–1946: Rank: Major-General: Service number: 26087: Unit: King's Own Scottish Borderers: Commands: 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers 219th Independent Infantry Brigade Senior Officers' School, Sheerness 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division 51st (Highland) Infantry Division: Battles / wars: First ...
The Sicilian campaign followed, after which Bradford was moved to General Staff (GSO1 HQ 2nd Army) and by the spring of 1944 he was Liaison Officer to General Omar Bradley, Commander of US 1st Army Group. On D-Day he landed with the Americans at Omaha Beach and remained with Bradley until, on 26 July 1944 he took command of 5th Bn. Black Watch ...