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	British 34th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The division was originally made up of Pals battalions, notably the 10th Lincolns, known as the Grimsby Chums, and two brigades of Northumberland Fusiliers; the Tyneside Scottish and Tyneside Irish.
		The division's first major action was the attack at La Boisselle on the first day of the Battle of the Somme during which the division suffered heavy casualties and many of the original Pals were killed.
		In this period the 37th Division was holding the line on a quiet sector at Vimy Ridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_34th_Division (466 words)

	British 16th (Irish) Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 16th (Irish) Division was a division of the New Army, raised in Ireland from the Irish National Volunteers in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group.
		The Division was formed in September 1914 in the early days of the war in Belfast, and was moved to Aldershot Barracks in England for training in September 1915.
		The 16th Division was critical in capturing the towns of Guillemont and Ginchy, though they suffered massive casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_16th_(Irish)_Division (757 words)

	Tunnel Trench: The 16th (Irish) Division at Cambrai -- The Wild Geese Today
		Troops from the British army's 16th Irish and 36th Ulster division in the destroyed village of Wytschaete, June 1917.
		According to the divisional historian, at Cambrai, the "swift and successful operation by 16th Division was a model of attack with a limited objective." In addition to securing 3,000 yards of trench, 635 prisoners were captured from the German army's 470th and 471st Regiments and 330 German bodies were counted in the trenches.
		Unfortunately, 3rd Division had failed in its attempt to capture the trench network immediately to the right of 16th Division, and the flank of the Connaught Rangers was thus exposed to a savage counterattack.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/tunn_tr.html (1739 words)

	A Brief History of the British Army's 16th (Irish) Division -- The Wild Geese Today
		Although the Irish troops repulsed the enemy, the Division suffered 1,980 casualties, of whom 1,260 were the victims of gas.
		By contrast, the 16th Division was assigned battalions drawn from the five southern Irish-based regiments (in addition to non-sectarian battalions of the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Inniskillings), so there were never more than two or three battalions from the same regiment within the division.
		When Irish recruitment dried up in the wake of the Easter Rising and Irish battalions were forced to disband, or amalgamate, several of the Regular Irish battalions were transfered into the 16th Division to fill in the gaps.
	www.thewildgeese.com /pages/16thdiv.html (1206 words)

	Irish Battallions - RDF Major Battles
		The Irish Brigades of the 16th (Irish) were in the trenches at Hulluch when the Germans launched a gas attack on April 27th, 1916.
		The 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) were to fight together to take the Belgian village of Wytschaete.
		The 1st Dublins were sent to the 29th Division, the 2nd and later the 7th RDF joined the 31st Division.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_batmb.html (1706 words)

	Newshound: Daily Northern Ireland news catalog - Irish News article
		Against the background of the Irish war of independence and the civil war, the traditional armistice day commemorations became unsustainable and even the memorials fell into a state of neglect.
		For the soldiers themselves – many of whom returned to disillusion about the policy of the British government for which they had volunteered – the experience of returning to a place where their sacrifice could not be recognised must have been doubly disillusioning.
		The revival of interest in remembering the Irish dead of the First World War during the 1980s and '90s was itself a sign of healing and of the dramatic change in relations between Ireland and Britain.
	www.nuzhound.com /articles/irish_news/arts2003/jul1_WWI_PMurphy.php (883 words)

	16th (Irish) Division
		The Cadre of the Battalion joined the Division on 18 Jun 1918 and was reconstituted on 20 Jun 1918 by absorbing the 25th Bn.
		Absorbed by the 11th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers (which in turn was absorbed by the 5th Bn).
		On 22 Jan 1917 the Brigade left the Division and became an Army Field Artillery Brigade.
	orbat.com /site/warpath/divs/16_div.htm (655 words)

	Royal Dublin Fusiliers
		The objective of the 16th (Irish) and 36th (Ulster) Divisions was the Belgian village of Wytschaete.
		As a symbol of their gratitude to the men of the 16th (Irish) Division the villagers of Wytschaete built a Celtic Cross in a plot near the British Commonwealth Cemetery and on August the 26th 1926 the Cross was blessed by Fr O'Connell formerly Chief Chaplain of the 16th (Irish).
		Despite the victory which the Irish Divisions had won, it is important to remember that as human beings we must try to understand the killing and suffering that had been inflicted upon the Germans during the battle of Messines.
	www.tcd.ie /General/Fusiliers/DUBFUS/DUBFUS/FUSILIER/HTML/fus_reg3.htm (853 words)

	Facts
		I have been conducting awareness rallies and workshops throughout Papua for the Papuan people, who were ignorant of the fact that they were Australian citizens by birth, educating and explaining the history, the policies and the laws that had governed the Australian Territory Papua since 1884.
		British New Guinea joined in 1905 to be the seventh and became the Territory of Papua.
		The British did this in mainland Australia without considering the indigenous Aborigine who are basically nomads.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/sony/facts.htm (2788 words)

	10th (Irish) Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The 10th (Irish) Division was one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from Irish volunteers by Lord Kitchener in 1914 It fought at Gallipoli Salonika and Palestine during World War I.
		The 10th Division was sent to Gallipoli where as part of General Sir Stopford's IX Corps it landed at Suvla on August 7 to participate in the August offensive.
		In September 1917 the division moved to Egypt where it joined General Chetwode's XX The division fought in the Third Battle of Gaza which succeeded in breaking the resistance the Turkish defenders in southern Palestine.
	www.freeglossary.com /British_10th_Division (655 words)

	The 36th (Ulster) Division, 1914-1918
		In September 1914, the Ulster Division was formed from the Ulster Volunteer Force which raised thirteen battalions for the three Irish regiments based in Ulster; the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Rifles.
		It was in X Corps, with 32nd Division - a New Army formation - on its right facing the height around the immensely fortified position of Thiepval, and the regular army 29th Division, recently arrived from Gallipoli, facing Beaumont Hamel on the other bank of the Ancre.
		The Second Army, of which the Ulster Division was currently a part, arranged for two overwhelming advantages in the attack, the purpose of which was to capture the long ridge running south from Ypres to Armentieres, through the villages of Wytschaete and Messines.
	www.1914-1918.net /36div.htm (2166 words)

	Contribution from Roger Heller
		The 80th was a new Division, raised in the National Army, further known as the "Blue Ridge Division of Virginia, American Expeditionary Force." With such a designation and in the South many Southerners saw the Division as the logical revival of Virginia forces from the long departed Confederate States of America's Army.
		Thus while the 80th Division was at the Samer Training Area under control of II Corps, the 305th was at Radon where they trained in their supply specialty.
		As a part of 80th Division the 305th from 10 August to 1 September was assigned the Sector "Limey-Marvosin"; French VIII Army, French XXXII Corps, suffering 212 casualties.
	www.worldwar1.com /tgwscontr/rheller.htm (2608 words)

	The Characters of The Shadow of Genius
		He has much in common with captured French senior officers, as well as British officers, although he is angry with them for their involvement in the war.
		Sir Roger David Casement (1864-1916) was an Irish nationalist hero, distinguished British Consul in Mozambique, Angola, the Congo Free State and Brazil, and considered a traitor by the British, was hanged by the British in mid-1916 for his part in working with Germany and Irish nationalists in planning the Dublin Easter Rising of 1916.
		Smoke screens were laid down by the artillery and Stokes mortars (indeed, 20th (Light) Division, on the left of the Canadians across the Menin Road near Railway Wood, also used smoke, under cover of which they mounted four successful trench raids as the bigger effort opened to the south).
	www.homestead.com /heritagepavilionstage/files/The_Characters_of_The_Shadow_of_Genius.htm (3162 words)

	First World War.com - The Western Front Today - 16th Irish Division Memorial, Wytschaete
		The memorial to the 16th (Irish) Division is sited next to Wytschaete cemetery in the Ypres Salient.
		It commemorates 16th Division's capture of Wytschaete on 7 June 1917, the opening day of the Battle of Messines.
		A second memorial to the division is located at Guillemont on the Somme.
	www.firstworldwar.com /today/16thirishdivisionmemorial.htm (125 words)

	Irish Battallions - Irish Regiments
		The British Expeditionary Force, sent to France in August was practically decimated at Mons.
		The first Irish volunteers were placed into the service battalions of the Irish Regiments which made up the 10th (Irish) Division.
		The British used a territorial numbering system for their army divisions: the 9th (Scottish) Division, the 10th (Irish) Division and the 11th (Northern) Division, etc.
	www.greatwar.ie /ire_batir.html (153 words)

	Ireland Defence Command
		The volunteer divisions are organised in a manner similar to French infantry divisions and have had that structure for sometime unlike their British UKDF counterparts.
		The CAG is the Irish contribution to both the air defence, strike capability and the tactical mobility of the IDC.
		1 Irish Div is the defence division drawn from the east coast of Ireland from Dublin and Leinster.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~dheb/2300/Europe/UK/UK/IDC.htm (1527 words)

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		Unfortunately, the commander of the entire Third Division, Major-General M. (Malcolm) Mercer, GOC 3rd Canadian Division, happened to be visiting the 4th Regiment Canadian Mounted Rifles position on Mount Sorrell.
		For two weeks two divisions of the 13th Wurrtemberg Corps had pushed their digging steadily closer to the Canadian lines and British flyers had spotted trenches far behind the German line which strongly resembled the Canadian positions — a hint that they were rehearsing for a coming attack.
		Although clearly an attempt by the British to discredit Casement the diaries' authenticity was verified by an independent panel of scholars in 1959 and, more recently, in 2002.
	www.homestead.com /heritagepavilionstage/files/The_Characters_of_The_Shadow_of_Genius.doc (3345 words)

	Rec Fresh : Article 'British 3rd Division (World War I)' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		British 3rd Division (World War I) Template:Infobox British WWI division The British 3rd Division, known as the Iron Division, was originally formed in 1809 by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington for service in the Peninsula War.
		During the First World War it was a permanently established Regular Army division that was amongst the first to be sent to France at the outbreak of the war.
		Currently the 3rd Division is the only division at continual operational readiness in the United Kingdom and comprises three mechanised brigades; the 1st, 12th and 19th.
	www.rec-fresh.net /DisplayArticle72531.html (236 words)

	The 16th Irish Division in the Great War 1914-18
		The raising of the 10th(Irish) Division was in accordance with the well-established practice of recruitment of Irishmen to fight in the British Army.
		Although recruitment to the Ulster-based 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles was satisfactory, by the end of August 1914 the numbers joining the other two Ulster-based regiments, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had not reached 20% of that required.
		It was the first of many British blows that, in the end, were as fatal to the longevity of the 16th(Irish) division as were German bullets.
	freespace.virgin.net /sh.k/xvidiv.html (1945 words)

	Special Operations.Com
		Assigned to NATO's Multinational Division (Central) [MND(C)] as part of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), the 8000-man 16th AAB (see table 1) carries on the proud traditions of its predecessor units.
		The 16th AAB is operationally subordinate to the newly created Joint Helicopter Command and is being designed to meet a wide range of contingency operations (out-of-area operations) such as rapid reinforcement of dependent territories, evacuation of UK nationals from overseas trouble spots, providing assistance to friendly governments, and conducting international peacekeeping operations.
		The 16th AAB has a mission similar to that of the U.S. 229th Attack Helicopter Brigade, XVII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, for deep operations, but the 16th AAB also possesses an additional capability to conduct airborne and air assault operations with its assigned infantry battalions.
	specialoperations.com /Foreign/United_Kingdom/Air_Assault (1362 words)

	Slaughter of British Infantry at Albuera, 1811. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The British 4th Dragoon Regiment (387 men in 4 squadrons) and some Spanish cavalry (721 men) were ordered to attack the lancers and French hussars.
		One of British officers, Major Brooke, recalled the fighting; "I was being led as a prisoner between two French infantrymen when one of the lancers rode up, and deliberately cut me down.
		(At Waterloo the British dragoons sabered the infantrymen of 105th Line without pity, even though at that point many of them had thrown down their weapons and were trying to surrender.> They even cut down the boys who served as pipers and drummers in 45th Line.
	web2.airmail.net /napoleon/Albuera_1811.html (3456 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| War graves to be protected
		The bodies of some of the 97 Guernsey men who died in the ranks of the 16th Irish Division during 1916 were to be exhumed and reburied to make way for the new runways.
		Five hundred men were sent to join the 16th Irish Division, serving in Guernsey companies within the Royal Irish Regiment and the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
		The land on which the cemeteries lie was presented in perpetuity to the British people by the French in 1919.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2965328.stm (263 words)

	South Belfast Friends of the Somme Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The centre commemorates the involvement of the 36th (Ulster) and 16th (Irish) Divisions in the Battle of the Somme, the 10th (Irish) Division in Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine and provides displays and information on the entire Irish contribution to the First World War.
		Larne Platoon (Royal Irish Rangers) is a Detachment belonging to C Coy of the 1st Northern Ireland Battalion of the Army Cadet Force.
		The Royal British Legion is the UK's leading charity safeguarding the welfare, interests and memory of those who have served in the Armed Forces and their dependants.
	www.belfastsomme.com /links.htm (1567 words)

	The 16th (Irish) Division 1914-1918
		But the training and preparation of the Division was slowed by the loss of many of its units to the Guards Division.
		The Division lost virtaully all of its remaining Irish units at this point.
		16th Divisional Ammunition Column RFA (the original DAC left in August 1915 to join Guards Division.
	www.1914-1918.net /16div.htm (1434 words)

	World War One - Josiah Chancellor Kennedy - Royal Irish Rifles
		The Royal Irish Rifles were raised as the 83rd Regiment of Foot in October 1758.
		The 6th Battalion was formed in Dublin in August 1914 and allotted to 29th Brigade of the 10th Irish Division with which it served on Gallipol, in Macedonia, in Egypt and in Palestine where it was disbanded in May 1918.
		In February 1918 another posting moved the battalion to the 36th Ulster Division with which it remained for the rest of the war, in the same brigade as the 1st Battalion.
	www.censol.ca /research/worldwarone/rif.htm (1112 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This is where lower division student records are kept and also where they register for classes.
		In your 4th semester (Upper Division) you may declare English as your major and choose an advisor by visiting the Undergraduate Advisory Office.
		Upper division students who have declared English as their major register for classes in the English Department.
	english.uconn.edu /handbook.html (2455 words)

	The Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade was formed in 1994, on the 300th anniversary of the death of its founder, Justin MacCarthy, The Viscount Mountcashel (first Duke of Clancarthy).
		At this time organisations existed which commemorated the Irish contribution to specific conflicts such as the American Civil War, The Irish Regiments of the British Army and such, but no organisation existed that spanned all ages and all units in which the Irish had served.
		The Mountcashel Cross of The Honourable Society of the Irish Brigade was drawn by Dennis Ivall, and is worn by Officers.
	home.earthlink.net /~rggsibiba/html/sib/sib.html (716 words)

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