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	British 1st Armoured Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 1st Armoured Division is the title of an armoured division of the British Army.
		The division was disbanded on 1 January 1945.
		The headquarters of the division was deployed to Saudi Arabia in 1990 to command British land forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1st_(UK)_Armoured_Division (647 words)

	British Expeditionary Force - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The BEF was composed of four regular infantry divisions, rising later to seven infantry and three cavalry divisions.
		In December 1914, the British Expeditionary Force was divided into the First and Second Armies, with a third and fourth created later in the war.
		Although the term British Expeditionary Force strictly refers only to the forces sent initially to France in 1914, the name is often used of the British Army in France and Flanders throughout the First World War.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/BEF (558 words)

	1st Armored Division, Division Chronicle
		Troops for the brigade came from the 1st and 13th Cavalry, with the regiments being slated for conversion to mechanized units.
		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)

	World War II Plus 55 - June 28 - July 4, 1942
		British 1st Armoured Division screens the Allied retreat, which includes the 2nd NZ Division, sorting itself at Bab El Qattara, south of El Alamein.
		British infantry lacks motorization, and is thus nearly immobile in the desert, while the 2-lbr.
		British tank doctrine is inferior to the Germans, and the British Crusader tank, a rivetted monster, easily catches fire.
	www.usswashington.com /dl28ju42.htm (4452 words)

	World War 2 Timelines - War in the Desert 1941 - Worldwar-2.net
		British forces land at Diego Suarez and Antsirene on Vichy French held Madagascar in an pre-emptive strike to stop the Japanese from using it as an advanced base.
		This left the Eighth Army with only 75 armoured vehicles operational and threatened the main British supply route along the Trigh Capuzzo, which in turn threatened the 1st South African and British 50th Division which were still defending the northern part of the Gazala line.
		British disarray increases as German advance units mix with British rear units which are reatreating as fast as possible for the relative safety of the El Alamein defensive position.
	www.worldwar-2.net /timelines/war-in-the-desert/war-in-the-desert-index-1942.htm (2706 words)

	Battles 1942
		The 4th Armoured Brigades 'B' Echelon was then overrun with the loss of most of the ammunition and petrol was lost and the 1st KRRC had to withdraw to the Retma Box and then on to El Duda.
		On 2nd July, the 4th Armoured Brigade attacked the flank of 15th Panzer, losing a number of tanks to 88mm guns, while the main thrust of the German attack, along the Ruweisat Ridge, south of Dier-el-Shein, was hindered by the appearance of 22nd Armoured Brigade, with 50 tanks.
		The 1st RTR of the 22nd Armoured Brigade did encounter a rearguard at Agedabia and the battle took the form of a duel between the British Tanks and artillery and the enemy anti-tank guns, which were well concealed in an arc across the road.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.a.paterson/battles1942.htm (6865 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		An infantry division is an armoured division in all but name, fielding 270 Abrams tanks as well as self-propelled artillery, a large infantry component mounted in Bradley fighting vehicles and an integral unit of Apache helicopter gunships.
		Marine divisions have long histories; 1st Marine Division had fought in the First World War and taken part in most of the great island battles of the Pacific War of 1942-45, as had its sub-units, 1st Marines, 4th Marines, 5th Marines and 7th Marines.
		The other large formation available to General Franks was the British 1st (UK) Armoured Division, a hastily assembled formation consisting of the 7th Armoured Brigade, which had fought in the First Gulf War, the 16th Air Assault Brigade, composed of parachute and helicopter units, and the 3rd Commando Brigade of Royal Marines.
	www.nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/keegan200406290944.asp (2197 words)

	Units & Organizations: British, Canadian, Polish (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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)

	Armed Forces - a3a1- British Army - Formations - 1 (UK) Armoured Division - British Forces Germany (BFG)
		The Division has its headquarters at Herford in Germany and commands three Armoured Brigades situated throughout North West Germany and is the major component of British Forces Germany.
		British Forces Germany (BFG) is the composite name given to the British Army, Royal Air Force and supporting civil elements stationed in Germany.
		The terms British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and Royal Air Force Germany (RAFG), until recently were the traditional names used to describe the two Service elements of the British Forces stationed in Germany.
	www.armedforces.co.uk /army/listings/l0008.html (835 words)

	Canada at War - Page » WWII: The Gothic Line
		Five kilometres south of the Conca, the forward troops came under fire from the German 1st Parachute Division, while heavy fighting was developing on the Coriano Ridge to the west.
		That same day, the 1st Division was relieved by the New Zealand Division, ready with the 5th Armoured Division to sweep across the Lombardy Plain to Bologna and the Po.
		The 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade, meanwhile, continued to operate with the Americans and British in the area north of Florence.
	www.wwii.ca /page79.html (1227 words)

	HQ 1 Division
		The Division has existed in the British Army since 1809 when the Duke of Wellington formed it, in Portugal, from two British brigades and one Hanoverian brigade of the King's German Legion.
		The 1st (UK) Armoured Division is now the only British division to be stationed in Germany, from a peak of 4 divisions during the height of the Cold War, though it is not the only element of the British Forces in Germany.
		The impact of this restructuring was that the British Army of the Rhine was reduced to a strength of 1 Armoured Division with supporting troops.
	www.army.mod.uk /1div (477 words)

	GDR 99 - Airborne Systems
		It was designed to split the American, British and Canadian armies and capture the port of Antwerp that Hitler had persuaded himself was vital for supporting the allied assault into the Rhineland, but it ground to a halt through the lack of adequate supply of fuel for the advancing panzers.
		The first division ready brigade (DRB) of the 101st Airborne flew from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on 17 and 18 August 1990 to establish a deterrent to an Iraqi invasion of Saudi Arabia.
		At the start of the land offensive, the 1st Armoured Division was consuming 3.5 million litres of fuel, 350 tons of rations, and 2.8 million litres of water a week.
	www.global-defence.com /1999/airsys/air1.htm (1677 words)

	25 January 1942
		The weakened British 1st Armoured Division of 13 Corps, Eighth Army, is ordered to fall back on Mechili, leaving a detachment to protect the withdrawal of the Indian 4th Division from Benghazi and Barce.
		The Indian 11th Division commander sends the British 53d Brigade Group to the relief of the Batu Pahat defense force, but most of the column is unable to get through.
		The withdrawal of the 1st Division, Philippine Army, southward begins during the morning and continues through the night of 25/26 January.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1942/01/25.htm (936 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: frederick franks
		division had been seen loading on to hit vehicles so he said he wanted us to continue to press the attack and I told him that we would.
		I also told him I was not happy with a mission I had gotten to attack, the 1st British Armored Division south and clear essentially Wadi al Batin, which we had gone around to avoid, and eventually we did not do that.
		Franks: 73 Easting was really the first large scale fight that we got in,.....the breach of course was a separate operation, the 1st British Armored Division, as soon as they broke out of the breach, began a series of tough fights against the Iraqi reserve.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/franks/3.html (1694 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".
		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 (2823 words)

	Grossdeutschland Campaign Pt. 3: Breaching the Weygand Line
		The British 1st Armoured Division attacked Abbeville on the 27th, with De Gaulle’s 4th DCR joining the assault the following day.
		Defending the line opposite the bridgehead from Amiens was the 16th Infantry Division, 2 attached companies of the 12th Tank Battalion, and a handful of Senegalese Tirailleurs regiments.
		During the night of 6/7 June the 16th Division moved the majority of its Senegalese troops into the north and western portions of the Boise de Berny, and the village of Rossignol.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=ah/aam/ah200600324c (794 words)

	Bravo 14 Bravo Desert Shield
		This is the story of B14b, An armoured ambulance part of 5 AFA (Armoured field Ambulance) that took part in OP Granby (Desert storm).
		There job is to give the first treatment to casualties as and were they happen, To setup a treatment area and stabilize them for movement.Then arrange there evacuation back to forward Troop who will then pass them back though the dressing station and on to a field hospital.
		To help the sections the units to which they are attached would have several armoured ambulances of there own.
	bravo14b.tripod.com /page0.htm (399 words)

	Today In WW II History - Topic Powered by eve community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		After the campaign of 1941, the infantry divisions in Romania and Trans-Dnestra (the 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th, 13th, 14th and 15th Infantry Divisions) were fully reequipped and reorganized during the winter.
		The divisions that were on the front line (1st, 2nd, 4th, 10th, 18th, 19th and 20th Infantry Divisions) were only partially reorganized and had lower combat potential.
		All the training divisions and the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 20th Infantry Divisions were disbanded.
	forums.ubi.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/23110283/m/1771097952/p/26 (12917 words)

	HyperWar: The War in France and Flanders 1939–1940 [Chapter X]
		The truth is that the German armoured division was held at Boulogne by the joint action of British and French troops.
		On May the 22nd, when the German 2nd Armoured Division was already closing in on Boulogne and the 1st Armoured Division was moving north from the Somme,[19] the first of the British troops now sent to Calais began to land.
		In the south the British defence was pierced, and the enemy gained a foothold in the town from which he could not be dislodged.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Flanders/UK-NWE-Flanders-10.html (5721 words)

	Coastal Command History - Squadrons
		The fighting strength of the 1st (British) Armoured Division included about 180 Challenger main battle tanks, about 260 Warrior armoured infantry vehicles, 90 artillery pieces and 18 Lynx helicopters.
		During the land offensive, the 1st (British) Armoured Division moved and fought over 290 kilometres.
		Half a million parcels and 21 million letters were sent to and from the British forces in the Gulf.
	www.raf.mod.uk /gulf/forces.html (411 words)

	frontline: the gulf war: oral history: frederick franks
		I actually went out to visit General Ron Griffith and the 1st US Armoured Division, to talk about moving the 1st Cavalry around to the north, it was at that point that the battle of the Medina Ridge was going on.
		Franks: I knew that--actually Wednesday morning-- that the 1st Infantry Division and the 1st UK Armoured Division had essentially achieved a breakthrough and they were in essentially pursuit and exploitation, which the Big Red One was.
		Franks: Our scheme of manoeuvre in 7 Corps was to bring the 1st Cavalry Division around to the north of the 1st Armoured Division and around from the south we would bring the 1st Infantry Division and they would link up in front of..
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/franks/4.html (1136 words)

	A war fought on a multitude of levels.
		However as more information begins to leak out it is quickly becoming clear that this was a war fought on many levels and not least for the minds of the Iraqi leadership and the Western electorates.
		It has been suggested that this may be taken as a comment on the reliability of much of the British equipment and the lack of the logistic support that would be required for a significant advance towards Baghdad, rather than any lack of confidence by CENTCOM in the fighting ability of the British troops.
		Even the Republican Guard were apparently ordered at a crucial moment not to blow certain bridges south of the City and to withdraw allowing the US Marines to make their unexpected appearance in the suburbs of Baghdad.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article2962.htm (963 words)

	OIF Lessons Highlight Comms Compatibility - Military Information Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		âOne of the things Iâll say about when the British came in, and this is one of their issues, is that they do not have the communications capabilities that the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Army have.
		âAnd the British were still using the old Ptarmigan,â he said, referring to the communications system and subordinate nodes that link U.K. battlefield formations with higher headquarters, which were first fielded in the mid-1980s.
		He compared the single node available to the British with the fact that âthere were always three or four methodsâ of communicating with someone in the 1st Marine Division, one of the subordinate elements to I MEF.
	www.military-information-technology.com /print_article.cfm?DocID=467 (1632 words)

	Stronghold Miniatures BRITAIN
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		British 1st Armoured Div, March-July 1942, N Africa
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	1 (United Kingdom) Armoured Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment
		1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division and Signal Regiment
		1st (UK) Armoured Division Headquarters Signal Regiment and 4th, 7th and 20th Armoured Brigade Signal Squadrons provide the command support functions for the Divisional and Brigade headquarters.
		The Division is currently deployed in operations in Iraq.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalsignals/1ADSR/index.htm (241 words)

	Low-intensity war in Iraq Army - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		An Army MEDEVAC helicopter was damaged during the fight when a Bradley collided with it.
		In response, the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized) has reinforced the U.S. presence in the town and U.S. operations in the North are shifting towards combat as opposed to peacekeeping.
		Major units presently in Iraq include the 1st Marine Division, 1st Armored Division, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division (M), 4th Infantry Division (M), the 11th Attack Helicopter Regiment, a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division, the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), V Corps Artillery and the British 1st Armoured Division.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3723/is_200307/ai_n9257436 (358 words)

	British Army Gulf War 'Desert Scorpions' by Michael Rondot The BEST in Aviation Limited Edition Art www.AvCollect.com
		British Army Gulf War 'Desert Scorpions' by Michael Rondot The BEST in Aviation Limited Edition Art www.AvCollect.com
		Dominating the foreground of his evocative painting of a typical resupply operation in the field are a Leyland Daf Drops vehicle from 12 Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport and a Multiple Launch Rocket System from 39 Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery.
		Commander of the British Forces in the Middle East.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/andrewbrooks1/rond35.htm (131 words)

	Bolia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Smith certainly has the appropriate credentials to write about the topic.
		Armoured Division in the first Gulf war and was commander of UN forces in Bosnia at the time of the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995.
		After three years as General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland, he became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), serving as second in command to a U.S. general, Wesley Clark, during the NATO air campaign in Kosovo.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /press/review/2006/spring/br1-sp06.htm (330 words)

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