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	The 11th Armoured Division (Great Britain)
		As it drove into Germany, the 11th Armoured Division occupied the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, pursuant to an April 12 agreement with the retreating Germans to surrender the camp peacefully.
		When the 11th Armoured Division entered the camp, its soldiers were totally unprepared for what they found.
		The British forced SS guards to remove and inter the corpses in mass graves, but soon bulldozers had to be requisitioned to complete this task.
	www.ushmm.org /wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006188 (1000 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaediat
		Although it was taken by the British 11th Armoured Division on the 4th of September 1944, the banks of the river Scheldt were still held by German troops who proved difficult to dislodge and it was not until the 28th of November that the first supply ships reached the port.
		Unfortunately, two divisions of the SS Panzer Corps were refitting in Arnhem when the British landed and penned the British troops in, while the American force captured the bridge at Nijmegen but were unable to secure the bridge at Elst.
		The Battle of Culloden was a defeat in 1746 of the Jacobite rebel army of the British prince Charles Edward Stuart (the 'Young Pretender') by the Duke of Cumberland on a stretch of moorland in Inverness-shire, Scotland.
	david-pye.com /probert/F2.php (16661 words)

	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish
		Unlike the US divisions, the British Reigment was identified only by its name-- not a number-- and the battalions of a regiment did not serve in the same division.
		The British plan was to capture this port and advance north and then turn west to cross the mountains behind the German defenses at Cassino.
		It was primarily consisted of the 3rd Carpthian Rifle Brigade of the 3rd Carpthian Division and the 4th Wolyn Infantry Brigade of the 5th Frontier Infantry Division.
	members.aol.com /Custermen85/Units/BritishOrg.htm (2095 words)

	History of the 492nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion
		Late in the afternoon of the 30th, the Division was assigned the new mission of clearing the enemy from the important Rechrival Valley Sector.
		The mission of the Division was to attack north, relieve the threat to the highway, and push forward to the objective north of Bastogne.
		The battalion, under Division Artillery control, was given the mission of general support of the Division and reinforcing the fires of the 183rd FA Group.
	www.11tharmoreddivision.com /history/history_of_the_492afa.htm (10639 words)

	The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (B)
		The term was later applied to the jacket quilted with iron worn by archers during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I.
		The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the British army serving in France during the Great War and also the 1939 to 1940 army in Europe during the Second World War, which was evacuated from Dunkirk, France.
		Broadway was the codename given to a British base formed by the British Chindit forces East of Mohnyin, Burma in March 1944.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/F2.HTM (17055 words)

	The British Armoured Regiment
		It was intended that the Cromwell would equip all Armoured Regiments, but in the end only 7th Armoured Division received them on this scale, along with the Armoured Reconnaissance Regiments of Guards and 11th Armoured Divisions.
		By 1944 the deficiencies in the 75 mm gun lead the British to modify a number of Sherman tanks to fit their 17 pdr anti-tank gun, which had proved a match for the Tiger.
		British, Commonwealth and American crews suffered terrible attrition as a result, as evidenced by the seemingly countless burnt out hulks which lined the road to Berlin.
	www.bayonetstrength.150m.com /Armour/british_armoured_regiment.htm (1642 words)

	1944
		The British 11th Armoured Division crosses the Albert Canal, to the East of Antwerp.
		British troops cross the German border to the Southeast of Nijmegen.
		It is announced that the first British jet fighter, the ‘Gloster Meteor’ was successfully used in action on the 4th August.
	www.wargamer.com /ww2timeline/1944western.asp (3402 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The 7th Armoured then withdrew to the Nile Delta to refit, and was not at the front when the German Afrika Korps bundled the British back out of Libya in the spring of 1941.
		The division refitted during the early months of 1942, but was in the front lines again by May for the Gazala battles, as shown at the tactical level in Desert Rats and at the operational level in our new Gazala 1942 game.
		Afterwards the 7th Armoured refitted and reorganized into three brigades, two tank and one of motorized infantry as British organization finally started to recognize the shortage of foot soldiers in their armored divisions as compared to similar German or Italian formations.
	www.avalanchepress.com /7thArmoured.php (758 words)

	Milestones - Westkapelle - 3rd October 1944
		Leading elements of the British 11th Armoured Division entered the Belgian port of Antwerp on the 4th September 1944 after a frantic 250 miles advance through Northern France and Belgium.
		However both Squadrons were involved in an attack on German gun positions at Fort Frederick Hendrik on the South bank of the Scheldt estuary on the 11th and 12th October and also gun positions at Domburg on Walcheren on the 29th October.
		On the 1st November British marine commandos landed at Westkappelle and Flushing with support from naval units and artillery but the British based bomber squadrons were unable to take part because of bad weather in England.
	elshamwolds.50g.com /westkapelle44.html (1158 words)

	Operation Goodwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was planned to draw the Germans to the Eastern end of the Allied front, away from the Americans, and to punch armour through the German defences so the infantry could then exploit the whole.
		"The [British] 29th Armoured Division was too spent to begin a new drive; nearly half its tanks had been lost - two of its three regiments had only about twenty tanks still operation.
		One hundred and twenty-six tanks of the [British] 11th Armoured Division were put out of action that day, nearly ninety of them from enemy fire....On the left flank the Guards Armoured Regiment lost sixty tanks." Carlo D'Este, Decision in Normandy, p.380.
	users.skynet.be /advocaat.depickere/Text/D-DayText/goodwood.html (246 words)

	The History of the British 7th Armoured Division - Desert Rats
		The British 7th Armoured Division is one of the most famous formations that ever served in the British Army.
		The British Army had deployed small armoured car forces in the Western Desert of Egypt and Cyrenaica for many years, with the first ones operating in the Western Desert towards the end of the Great War.
		It was reformed in March 1949 and served with the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR) until it was finally disbanded in January 1957.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/history.htm (2835 words)

	30 June 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the area as a whole Dempsey had 60,000 men and 600 tanks, supported by 700 guns; but he knew that he was still outranked by the Panzers.
		The Armored Division is withdrawn from battle, but the other units regroup to a new holding-line, to give time for Maj. Gen.
		In morning the Group Wihma (the 6th Division reinforced with the remains of the IR 48) has established itself on the new line, and the IR 6 withdraws from the battle.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/06/30.htm (1249 words)

	4 September 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Machine gunner Private Gino Merli (1924-2002)of the US 1st Infantry Division's 18th Infantry is one of 14 men who set up a roadblock near the village of Sars la Bruyere, a few miles from the French border.
		The Canadian 1 Army and British 2 Army along with the U.S. First Army are given the task of advancing toward the Ruhr.
		The British liberate Lille in northern France while Patton's U.S. Third Army refuels, storms across the Moselle River and pushes toward Nancy, capital of the French province of Lorraine.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/09/04.htm (994 words)

	11th (UK) Armoured Division: Spearhead Organization
		Division returns show all were gone by December 1944.
		Through "Goodwood" rate the Division as Green for close combat and Rally suppression, Regular for Morale.
		British Tank Strengths, June '44 to June '45, Command Post Quarterly #15, Greg Novak, editor, Emperor's Press/Old Glory, 1997.
	spearhead1944.com /brpg/br11.htm (381 words)

	Panzer-Brigades in the West 1944
		The Americans were not alarmed by the attack and meanwhile the 4th U.S. Armoured Division was preparing north of Lunéville for the attack to towards the Saar.
		The Americans were suprised by a second attack to the rear of their troops, because CCA and CCB of the U.S. 4th Armoured Division were moving northwards again to push on towards the Saar.
		Meanwhile the CCB of the U.S. 4th Armoured Division was advancing north and threatened the drive a wedge between the German 1st and 5th Panzer Armies.
	www.panzerworld.net /oob-pzb.html (6107 words)

	Operation Market Garden - Strikehold504th Forums
		The British 1st Airborne Division, The Red Devils were to land and take the true prize the bridge at Arnhem.
		The 82nd and 101st Divisions both were Veterans of the Normandy drop and the British 1st had last seen action on Sicily in 1943.
		The US 7th Armoured Division or the British 11th Armoured Division, both were nearby on the 17th, should have been leading the attack.
	www.strikehold504th.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=39 (3077 words)

	Serbs and Croats in Prophecy
		Again the 11th ed of the Britannica confirms: "It is probable however, that most of the highland tribes...remained almost unaffected by Roman influence...The Illyrian tribes which had withstood the attraction of Roman civilization remained unconquered in the mountains..." ("Illyria").
		Chedorlaomer, the leader of the pack, is referred to in cuneiform tablets as Kudur-Lahgumal; Amraphel is thought to identify Khammurabi, or Ammurapi, the Hummurabi of North Shinar; Arioch, or Eri-Aku, and Elamite prince Ellasar, or "Larsa," and Tidal king of nations, is referred to as Tudghula, the leader of Barbarian tribes called Ummanmanda.
		Under the article "Bosnia" in the 11th edition of Britannica, it is noted that it was named by others for people living along the Bosnia River, a tributary of Save, which is itself a tributary of the Danube.
	www.british-israel.ca /Serbs.htm (5556 words)

	bullbookoriginandsynopsis
		He wrote it not only to thank his British liberators but also to record the courage shown by his countrymen and neighbours, and the tragedies endured by them, during the terrible battles that led up to the defeat of the Germans and their expulsion from Normandy.
		It covers the Division's role in Operations Epsom, Goodwood and Bluecoat and the closing of the Falaise Gap.
		Interspersed among the descriptions of the battles are details of the personal experiences of British soldiers and, what gives the book its special character, the parts, tragic and heroic, often played by Norman civilians in those battles.
	www.batesbooks.com /bullbookoriginandsynopsis.html (325 words)

	Lightning War
		Armoured Brigade clashes with the Italians at a small desert outpost.
		Armoured Division attempts to hook southeast around Caen and runs into resistance from 21
		Armored Division attempts to stop up the Falaise Pocket before the Germans can escape.
	www.poeland.com /tanks (94 words)

	Page Title
		Armoured Division moving up to take on the German defenders, most of which had been killed during the bombardment, others quickly surrendered in a total state of shock.
		Literally hundreds of tanks were destroyed, the combined efforts of the British 8th.
		Fortunately for the Allies the battle was won and the lock to Normandy had been opened.
	www.6june44.freeserve.co.uk /page35.html (151 words)

	Blitzkrieg Portal - The single resource for news, maps and mods for Blitzkrieg and Blitzkrieg II
		German units complete the task of clearing Polish units from the area between Bzura, Modlin and Warsaw.
		German command decides to attack with the 11th and 13th Corps only the western side Warsaw, leaving the rest of the capital on the right hand side of the river.
		British 30th Corps fails to make further progress.
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	7th Armoured Division [British] 1939-1945
		The Desert Rats : the history of the 7th Armoured Division 1938 to 1945 (London : Hutchinson, 1954) 312 p.
		British 7th Armoured Division, 1940-45 (London : Osprey, 1977) 40 p.
		Churchill's Desert Rats : from Normandy to Berlin with the 7th Armoured Division (Stroud : Alan Sutton, 1994) viii, 200 p.
	www.unithistories.com /units_british/7ArmdDiv.html (185 words)

	British Cemetery at Al Alamein, Egypt
		The British Cemetery has thousands upon thousands of rock hewn tombstones arranged in straight rows amidst a fenced garden.
		Most of the soldiers were British 8th Army led by General Montgomery.
		In all, 35,476 British and Commonwealth soldiers lost their lives in the three years of the North African campaigns of WW II.
	www.touregypt.net /britishcemetery.htm (105 words)

	Itinerary
		We will walk part of the course, after which you will try to locate the photographs and maps provided to the present urban landscape.After lunch we will travel to the start point of Operation Epsom, the first real attempt at a breakout from the initial lodgement to the north and west of Caen.
		Saturday will be devoted to Operation Bluecoat, the battle launched by the British to support the left flank of the US breakout in Operation Cobra.
		After lunch we will follow the route of the battle, stopping at Bull Bridge where the British 11th Armoured Division found a gap in the German lines, then on to Mount Pincon, the key geographical feature of the area.
	www.strategos.demon.co.uk /D-Day/itinerary.htm (545 words)

	Stronghold Miniatures BRITAIN
		British 2nd Armoured Division, Oct-Dec 1940, UK Price: £0.80
		British 2nd Armoured Division, Mar-Apr 1941, N. Africa
		British 11th Armoured Division, Europe, Oct 1943- 01/07/1944
	www.stronghold-miniatures.co.uk /acatalog/Online_Catalogue_BRITAIN__282.html (662 words)

	The Royal Regiment of Wales
		Ted was awarded the Victoria Cross for outstanding gallantry on 2nd April 1945.
		After crossing the River Rhine, the British 11th Armoured Division moved into a bridgehead position and began the advance into Germany.
		It was announced in the Queen's Coronation Honours List of 1953 that he had been awarded the British Empire Medal for his services to the volunteer forces.
	www.rrw.org.uk /news/chapman.htm (349 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Great Mistake: The Battle for Antwerp and the Beveland Peninsula, September 1944: Books: Peter Beale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inefficient command structures, conflicts between Allied commanders and differing American and British military cultures all contributed to a huge missed opportunity, described by many historians as 'The Great Mistake'.
		On September 4, 1944, the British 11th Armoured Division entered Antwerp, capturing the docks intact with Belgian assistance.
		Had 11th Armoured Division immediately sealed off the peninsula where it joined the mainland, the Allies could have eliminated the Fifteenth Army and opened Antwerp's port much earlier, potentially allowing them to cross the Rhine and defeat Nazi Germany in 1944.
	www.amazon.ca /Great-Mistake-Beveland-Peninsula-September/dp/0750932864 (294 words)

	eyespymag.com: the magazine that lifts the lid on the world of intelligence, espionage, terrorism, and much more
		Commemorative ceremonies at the Irish monument (5pm), the Scottish Plaque in the cemetery, the British cemetery (5.15pm), at General Harris Square (6pm) and at the British Monument in Rue de l'Espérance (6.15pm)
		Tribute to the veterans of the 50th Northumbrian Division: Veterans from the 151st Durham Light Infantry Brigade, the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards and the 2nd Essex Brigade will be present.
		Commemorative ceremony at the British military cemetery in presence of officers and guardsmen in uniform (3.15pm), followed by the inauguration of a monument to the Guards Armoured Division, which liberated the town on August 5,1944 (4.15pm)
	www.eyespymag.com /ddayevents.htm (3063 words)

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