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	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish
		This is the organization of the Corps and Divisions during the fall of 1944.
		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.
		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)

	Battle of Val Krantz and Pieters - The Boer War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		British tactics, little changed from the Crimea, used at Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop were incapable of winning battles against entrenched troops armed with modern magazine rifles.
		The British artillery was a powerful force in the field, underused by commanders with little training in the use of modern guns in battle.
		The battalions of the Fourth Brigade, comprising 1st Durham Light Infantry, 3rd King’s Royal Rifles,1st Rifle Brigade and 2nd Scottish Rifles (the old 90th Regiment), with the 2nd Devons from Hildyard’s brigade, scaled Val Krantz driving the Boers from the lower slopes of the hill and coming under heavy fire from the surrounding higher positions.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/val-krantz.htm (2240 words)

	1st Armored Division, Division Chronicle
		The division alerted Combat Command C (CCC), which was then moving towards Sidi Bou Zid, for participation in the operation, but instead it was diverted to the Maizila Pass in the south.
		The division's celebration in the Italian capital was short-lived, as VI Corps directed General Harmon to lead his division north to capture the airfield at Viterbo.
		The division lost approximately 2500 men in the reorganization, as the 1st and 13th Armored Regiments and the 6th Armored Infantry converted to battalion structures.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/matrix/1AD/1AD-cc.htm (3556 words)

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		However, one British battalion was able to establish a perimeter on the north side of the Arnhem bridge.
		The rest of the 1st British Division, pinned down in a small bridgehead at Oosterbeek is hit by continuous attacks.
		The 1st Polish Para Brigade is landed 2 miles south of the Rhine in a vain attempt to reinforce the British paratroops.
	www.bartcop.com /arc4409.htm (3172 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The 1st Division went to British East Africa for the invasion of Italian East Africa with the understanding that South African troops would not be deployed north of the Equator.
		During the Gazala battles, 1st South African Division stood along the perimeter line with 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades (3rd having been re-assigned from 2nd Division, to replace the lost 5th).
		The South Africans felt that 5th Brigade was needlessly exposed at Sidi Rezegh because it was operating with the British 7th Armoured Division instead of under South African command.
	www.avalanchepress.com /GazalaSouthAfricans.php (1250 words)

	Battle of Modder River - The Boer War
		Winner: The British suffered heavier casualties but the Boers were forced to withdraw from their positions on the Modder River.
		Sir Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner of Cape Colony, saw his plans to annex the two Boer Republic in ruins with the added danger of a revolt in his own colony by Boers in sympathy with their cousins in the republics.
		Part of Pole-Carew’s 9th Brigade, 1st North Lancashire Regiment and 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, inched forward; the infantry attack supported by the fire of the 62nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery, and finally rushed the ford, pushing the Free Staters back across the river.
	www.britishbattles.com /great-boer-war/modder-river.htm (1665 words)

	1st Armored Division
		Armored Division in the breakout from the Anzio beachhead in May, 1944 got a certain amount of consolation out of the fact that they were captured by "a veteran division", as they put it.
		The division's three armored artillery battalions and the tank destroyer battalion, all of which had been firing in support of Fifth Army troops since November 25, were attached to the task force to aid the actual assault on the mountain by the 6th Armored Infantry Regiment.
		The two armored regiments were reformed into three separate tank battalions, the 1st, 4th and 13th; the infantry regiment was split into three separate battalions, the 6th, 11th and 14th, and nor changes in personnel and equipment were effected in the artillery, reconnaissance, tank destroyer, engineer, medical and ordnance battalions.
	members.aol.com /ItalyWW2/FirstArmd.htm (7094 words)

	Celebrate African American Heritage - Parks
		African American Civil War Memorial National Memorial, District of Columbia: By supporting the Union, slaves and free fls, living in the North and South, courageously advanced the cause of freedom for more than four million enslaved people.
		Fort Davis is important in understanding the presence of African Americans in the West and in the frontier military because the 24th and 25th U.S. Infantry and the 9th and 10th U.S. Cavalry, all-fl regiments established after the Civil War, were stationed at the post.
		The other division at Petersburg was with the IX Corps and it fought in the Battle of the Crater, July 30, 1864.
	www.nps.gov /pub_aff/african_am/parks.htm (4689 words)

	1st Field Squadron History
		Again 1st Field Squadron was reformed, in time to play its part in the battles of Alam Halfa and El Alamein and accompanied the 8th Army advance along the whole of the North African shore to the Cap Bon Peninsula in Tunisia.
		At the end of 1944, 1st Field Squadron was reorganised as an Assault Squadron, retitled to 1st Armoured Engineer Squadron, and took part with 2nd Armoured Regiment RE in the final offensive in Northern Italy.
		1st Field Squadron, as part of the King's Royal Hussars Battle group, played a major role in the construction of the Brazda refugee camp, the entry into Kosovo, and later was the forward engineer squadron based at Podujevo.
	www.homestead.com /1stFdSqnRE/History.html (991 words)

	Lone Sentry: The First! The Story of the 1st Infantry Division -- WWII G.I. Stories Booklet
		Huebner, commanding the 1st Infantry Division, lent his cooperation to the preparation of the pamphlet, and basic material was supplied to the editors by his staff.
		Huebner, stating that the action of the division in seizing and holding Caumont so upset the Germans' plans that it was necessary for them to alter their prepared plans and commit their hoarded counter-attack forces.
		But men of the 1st, always fighting for their country's ideals, sometimes fighting merely as an aggressive reaction, or simply to stay alive, have another motivation: that mysterious mixture of pride and ambition called esprit de corps.
	www.lonesentry.com /gi_stories_booklets/1stinfantry (6161 words)

	Case Study: Rommel in North Africa
		The British seriously underestimated the Germans’ ability to wage war in the desert in early 1941.
		This division of force proved disastrous for Rommel as his units, seriously depleted, were forced to fall back.
		The British achieved a breakthrough on November 2 but were unable to exploit it immediately.
	www.cs.hmc.edu /~dhamm/wargames/rommel.html (1332 words)

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		With the 3rd Division a new spirit was born in the early hours of 6th June, 1944, that was conceived on the shores of Scotland the previous autumn and carried securely through a wild, northern winter.
		It is true that the 3rd Division has an unbroken tradition from the time of the Haldane Reforms, a tradition hallowed from the outset of the War of 1914-1918 by its valour in the retreat from Mons.
		The 3rd British Infantry Division was styled British when it was known that the 3rd Canadian Division was chosen as the flanking division in the assault on the Atlantic Wall.
	www.warchronicle.com /units/British/3rd/history.htm (2732 words)

	British Commonwealth Forces Captured during Hill 317 (Maryang San) action
		British Commonwealth Forces in Korea Commonwealth troops serving in Korea included British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealander, and South African contingents.
		The first British units to arrive at Pusan on 28 August 1950 were the 1st Battalion The Middlesex Regiment and 1st Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders under the 27th British Infantry Brigade.
		The 29th British Infantry Brigade Group arrived in September 1950, followed by the 28th Commonwealth Brigade Group in April 1951, which replaced the 27th, and then the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group.
	www.rt66.com /~korteng/SmallArms/BCD1.htm (496 words)

	Fox Co. 2/26 Inf. 1st. Inf. Div. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The division landed 8 Nov 42 in North Africa as the 16th and 18th Infantry went ashore east of Oran and the 26th Infantry landed at Les Andalouses, and entered Oran 10 Nov 42.
		The division seized the Salso River crossings east of Caltanisseta and repelled a German counterattack at Gangi 25 Jul 43.
		It laid siege to the fortress-city of Aachen and the battle was commenced with an attack on its municipal forest 12 Sep 44.
	www.pnwhg.org /1stid/1stdivhist.htm (1320 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 1st RTR had already served in the desert before, in 1936, so they had already built up considerable desert experience, but undoubtedly the most experienced unit in either the British or Italian armies was the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars - "The Cherry Pickers".
		By late 1944 and into early 1945 Division adopted the final of its three Division signs as show here, which it was to use until the end of the war.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/history.htm (2835 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.
	touregypt.net /britishcemetery.htm (105 words)

	Object List(John Bull and Uncle Sam)
		Plan of Part of the River Delaware from Chester to Philadelphia, in Which Is Marked the Position of His Majesty's Ships on the 15th of November 1777.
		A Map of the British Colonies in North America with the Roads, Distances, Limits and Extent of the Settlements.
		An Address Delivered at the Court House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/british/britobje.html (2806 words)

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