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	British 29th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 29th Division, known as the Incomparable Division, was a First World War regular army infantry division formed in early 1915 by combining various units that had been acting as garrisons about the British Empire.
		The 29th Division served on the Gallipoli peninsula for the duration of the ill-fated campaign.
		The division was evacuated from Gallipoli and January 2, 1916 and moved to Egypt before being sent to France in March.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_29th_Division (641 words)

	British 63rd (Royal Naval) Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The division was shipped to Egypt prior to serving in the Battle of Gallipoli where it fought on both the Anzac and Helles battlefields.
		By the end of the Dardanelles campaign, the division's casualties were such that it no longer contained a significant number of naval servicemen and so in July 1916 it was redesignated as the 63rd Division when the original Territorial Force 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division was disbanded.
		The RND was one of two British divisions (along with the 29th Division) at the Gallipoli landings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_63rd_(Royal_Naval)_Division (566 words)

	US 29th Infantry Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 29th Infantry Division was formed in July 1917 as a National Guard Division from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia and was sent to Europe in July 1918.
		World War II The 29th Division was formed on 3 February, 1941 and departed for the United Kingdom on 5 October, 1942 where it continued training in Scotland and England from October of 1942 up to June, 1944 in preparation for the invasion of France.
		The 29th Division returned to the United States on January 4, 1946 and was demobilised a fortnight later.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/u/us/us_29th_infantry_division.html (764 words)

	29th Division (UK), 116th Regiment, C Company - Re-enactment Group: History
		The new design cut the division by eliminating brigade headquarters, reducing the infantry to three regiments and the artillery regiments to four battalions.
		After leaving the Blue and Gray Division on 12 March 1942, the 176th Infantry remained as part of the garrison of Washington, D.C. The unit was reassigned to the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, on 11 April 1943.
		The 16th Infantry of the 1st Division landed to their left and the 2d Ranger Battalion was assigned to capture the cliffs on their right.
	www.29th.co.uk /history.htm (2560 words)

	British 30th Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 30th Division was a New Army division that was originally made up of battalions raised by public subscription or private patronage.
		The division was taken over by the British War Office in August 1915 and moved to France in December.
		The brigade formed in April 1915 and moved to the 7th Division in December of that year, swapping with the 21st Brigade.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/30th_Division (452 words)

	Falcon Division -- WWII Unit History
		The Division was formed in 1934-35 by the expansion of the 15.Infantry Regiment of the old Reichswehr.
		The "Falcon Division", as it was nicknamed, performed in an outstanding manner in all of its battles.
		On April 24, 1945 it (and the rest of the LXXVI Panzer Corps) was caught by the British 8th Army between the Po and the Apennine Mountains and was destroyed.
	www.geocities.com /falcondivision/wwii_unit_history.htm (381 words)

	The Great War Society: 90th Anniversary - Second Landing at Gallipoli
		British troops quickly established a bridgehead in the early stages of the landings, but the Allied forces made no more gains on the peninsula.
		The ANZAC forces were ordered to launch a frontal assault on the Lone Pine Trench and the British 29th Division was to engage in a holding action at Helles (Rhodes James, 1965).
		In the aftermath of the Suvla Bay landings, Hamilton shifted the British 53rd, 54th, and 29th divisions to reinforce the troops at Suvla Bay and attempted a final breakout on August 21 with the assaults on Scimitar Hill and Hill 60.
	www.worldwar1.com /tgws/suvlabay.htm (684 words)

	Combat Chronicle- 29th Infantry Division
		The 29th Infantry Division trained in Scotland and England for the crosschannel invasion, October 1942-June 1944.
		The Division cut across the Elle River and advanced slowly toward St. Lo, fighting bitterly in the Normandy hedge rows.
		On 19 April 1945 the Division pushed to the Elbe and held defensive positions until 4 May. Meanwhile, the 175th Infantry cleared the Klotze Forest.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/lineage/cc/029id.htm (609 words)

	Battle of Gallipoli
		The British Minister of War, Lord Kitchener appointed General Sir Ian Hamilton to command the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that was to carry out the mission.
		Three battleships were sunk; the British HMS Ocean and HMS Irresistible, and the French Bouvet, while the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible and the French battleships Suffren and Gaulois were badly damaged.
		The invasion plan of 25 April, 1915 was for the 29th Division to land at Helles on the tip of the peninsula and then advance upon the forts at Kilitbahir.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/b/ba/battle_of_gallipoli.shtml (935 words)

	MSN Encarta - D-Day
		As the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad raged in late 1942, U.S. officials pressured the British to prepare for the invasion of France.
		The British shifted the Allied focus from France to an attack on German forces in North Africa and an eventual invasion of Italy, Germany’s ally, from the Mediterranean Sea.
		Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill tried to appease a furious Stalin by increasing lend-lease aid to the USSR and calling for Germany’s “unconditional surrender.” The call for an unconditional surrender was meant to assure Stalin that Britain and the United States would never agree to a separate, negotiated peace agreement with Germany.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701702421/article.html (2413 words)

	The Sikh Regiments : Gateway to Sikhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The French were on the right and the British 29th Division on the left, with three battalions of the Royal Naval Division in reserve.
		The British Corps consisted of the Royal Naval Division, 42nd Division and 29th Division.
		The 29th Division and a brigade of the 52nd Division advanced on the 28th of June and captured five lines of enemy trenches.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/fww_galipoli.htm (6805 words)

	Articles - Battle of Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At Cape Helles, on the tip of the peninsula, and along the Aegean coast, was the 9th Division and, in reserve at Gaba Tepe in the middle of the peninsula was the 19th Division, under the command of Mustafa Kemal.
		The Helles landing was made by the 29th Division under the command of Major-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston, on five beaches in an arc about the tip of the peninsula, designated from east to west as S, V, W, X and Y beach.
		At Anzac, an attack on the Turkish trenches at Lone Pine by the infantry brigades of the Australian 1st Division was a rare victory for the Anzacs.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Battle_of_Gallipoli (4197 words)

	Amphibious Warfare: First World War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hamilton's plan involved an amphibious landing by the British 29th Division on five beaches at Cape Helles, a decision driven by a lack of beach space and a shortage of ship-to-shore lift.
		Later, British commanders were able to alleviate this situation to a degree by packing troops onto the converted ocean liners Mauretania and Aquitania, which steamed from Britain directly to Mudros.
		Moreover, he never gave his division commanders a clear appreciation of the reason for the operation or the importance of speed in reaching their objectives.
	www.exwar.org /Htm/8000PopC5.htm (3346 words)

	Major General Herbert Lloyd
		In preparation for the move to the Western Front, the number of batteries per division was increased from nine to sixteen, while two new divisions (the 4th and 5th) were raised in Egypt.
		The 2nd Division was sent to Western Australia in 1942, forming part of III Corps, under the command of Lieutenant General H.
		Blamey recommended Lloyd for an active command, that of the 5th Division, then in action on New Britain, but the War Cabinet ruled that as Lloyd was now 61, the post war Army would be better served by the appointment of a younger officer.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/lloyd.html (1356 words)

	George Raymond Dallas Moor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Australia and educated at Cheltenham College, Moor was 18 years old, and a Second Lieutenant attached to the 2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment, British 29th Division, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
		In the words of the 29th Division's commander General Henry de Lisle, Moor shot "the leading four men and the remainder came to their senses."
		Moor later achieved the rank of Lieutenant and was killed in action, Mouveaux, France, on 3 November 1918.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Raymond_Dallas_Moor (263 words)

	United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.korean-war.com /unitedkingdom.html (223 words)

	Gallipolli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Its main constituents were the British 29th Division, the 1st Royal Naval Infantry Division, the French 1st Infantry Division, the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade and the Australia New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC).
		On three of the British beaches opposition was light or non-existent, on one it was stiff and on the fifth a disaster occurred.
		On V beach the plan was to run an old collier (the River Clyde) aground and the troops filling her hold would storm out of sally ports cut in her side, cross a bridge of lighters she had towed in behind her and secure the beach.
	www.geocities.com /Broadway/Alley/5443/gall.htm (2760 words)

	First World War.com - Battles - The Battle of Gully Ravine, 1915
		Prominent among these was the Battle of Gully Ravine, fought on 28 June 1914 along the Aegean spine of the peninsula in the wake of a moderate French success a week earlier.
		The newly appointed commander of the British 29th Division, Major-General Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle, proposed a limited objective attack - in accordance with Hamilton's strict enjoinder that no sweeping breakthrough be henceforth attempted - along the Gully Ravine Spur.
		Artillery support was to be fairly weak - 77 guns and howitzers: a third of what might ordinarily be expected - but was the best that could be managed given ongoing artillery and ammunition shortages (a mere 12,000 rounds were allocated for the attack).
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/gullyravine.htm (476 words)

	The 29th Division
		The Division was formed during January to March 1915, by bringing together units of the regular army that were on garrison and similar duties around the British Empire when war began.
		The Division was initially earmarked for the Western Front, but was eventually selected for the attempt in the Dardanelles.
		29th Divisional Ammunition Column (original DAC remained in Egypt when the Division moved to France; in October 1916 it was transferred to the 10th (Irish) Division.
	www.1914-1918.net /29div.htm (1057 words)

	Brigadier General Sydney Christian
		Christian's brigade was instead landed at the Cape Helles front on 4 and 5 May 1915 where it came under the control the Companion, Royal Artillery (CRA) of the British 29th Division.
		On 21 February 1916, Christian was promoted to colonel and temporary brigadier general and given command of the new 5th Division Artillery.
		In October, the 5th Division Artillery moved to the Somme front where it fired in support of the New Zealand Division.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Generals/christian.html (818 words)

	somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The result was slaughter - 57,500 British soldiers killed, wounded or missing in one day - the heaviest day's loss ever suffered by a British army.
		The first assault was made on October 1, 1916 and included Battalions of the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions, as well as units of the British Corps.
		During the remaining weeks of October the first three Canadian Battalions were gradually replaced with the 4th Canadian Division, which was fighting as part of the British II Corps.
	home.earthlink.net /~gaalli/somme.html (1567 words)

	29th Infantry Division (L) D Day Plus 60 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 29th Infantry Division's first headquarters near Willshire, England is an old cavalry camp and the location where the 29th Ranger Battalion was formed.
		Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division (Light) serve as the Honor Guard at Tidworth Barracks ceremony.
		29th Infantry Division veterans Austin Cox, Thomas Shriver, and Bernard Cohen attend ceremonies at the British military installation.
	29thinfantrydivision.com /DDayplus60/tidworth.htm (301 words)

	ASSAULT DIVISION excerpt: British 3rd Div on D-Day
		The Navy were showing the Division what they could do with odds against them, and the Division, no less stricken by the elements waited undaunted to show the Navy what they could do.
		Already the Division was face to face with the 21st Panzer Division, thought to have been from 10 to 30 miles south of Caen.
		The 3rd Division had done more than all that was expected of them once details of enemy dispositions were known.
	www.warchronicle.com /british_3rd_div/historiantales_wwii/assaultdivdday.htm (10701 words)

	anzac helles area
		The British 29th Division made the main landings on 25 April on the toe of Cape Helles at five sites, named Y, X, W, V, and S Beaches; they were located in that order around the toe from west to east.
		Success of the plan hinged on the landings at W and V beaches on the tip of the toe and the rapid seizing of Krithia village (present day Alcitepe) and the dominating hill in the centre of the peninsula, Achi Baba (over 200 metres high).
		The British were attacked by an inferior Turkish force on 26 April and were evacuated.
	www.turkishpeople.com /tours/henk/anzac/17.html (622 words)

	Burma Division
		The Burma Division was a Regular Division of the Indian Army.
		The Division remained in Burma throughout the war.
		The Battalion then went to France and joined the 63rd (British) Division in Aug 1917.
	orbat.com /site/warpath/indian_divs/burma_div.htm (129 words)

	29th Division (UK), 116th Regiment, C Company - Re-enactment Group
		We are a re-enactment group, re-enacting the American infantryman of the 29th Infantry Division during WWII.
		There are also plans for various members of the 29th to join the Special Engineers 6th Brigade for the "War and Peace show" this year.
		Steve has ran a 29th group in the past and is part of the 29th Historical Association.
	www.29th.co.uk (1153 words)

	the Somme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The French, devastated at Verdun, were weakened and they called for the British to put pressure on the German lines to ease the pressure on their army.
		Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British forces, organized an attack that would break through the German lines and open a pathway for the cavalry, breaking the stalemate that was in existence in the trenches.
		The Newfoundland Regiment, fighting with the 29th British Division (Newfoundland had not yet joined Confederation), was nearly annihilated.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /turner/ar_somme.html (277 words)

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