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	2nd Grenadiers: The First World War (1914-1918)
		The "Army Group Flanders" was composed of Belgian, French and British divisions under the command of the King Albert I. The 12th division, in which were found the 1st Grenadiers, 2nd Grenadiers and the 4th Carabiniers, formed part of the "Southern Group" and occupied the sector of Brielen.
		On the eve of the First World War, August 1st 1914, the Belgian army mobilized 15 classes (4 of the individual military service and 11 of the old system of drawing of lots).
		The North-African soldiers of the French African Division were surprised by the gas, and fled in panic but the gas was moving too fast and only one or two succeeded in escaping.
	home.tiscali.be /mertense/ww1.htm

	First World War.com - Primary Documents - Sir Douglas Haig's 2nd Despatch (Somme), 23 December 1916
		A battalion (2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, 30th Division) entered Guillemont, and part of it passed through to the far side; but as the battalions on either flank did not reach their objectives, it was obliged to fall back, after holding out for some hours on the western edge of the village.
		On the 27th July the remainder of Delville Wood was recovered by the 2nd Division (Major-General W. Walker), and two days later the northern portion of Longueval and the orchards were cleared of the enemy by the 5th Division, after severe fighting, in which our own and the enemy's artillery were very active.
		The second enemy attack was delivered on the 2nd June on a front of over one and a half miles from Mount Sorrell to Hooge, held by the 3rd Division (Major-General L. Lipsett), and succeeded in penetrating to a maximum depth of 700 yards.
	www.firstworldwar.com /source/haigsommedespatch.htm

	British 3rd Division (World War I) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		See British 3rd Infantry Division for World War II history.
		The British Army in the Great War: The 3rd Division ( http://www.1914-1918.net/3div.htm)
		division that was amongst the first to be sent to France at the outbreak of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_3rd_Division_(World_War_I)

	CIAOPS World Guides - WWI Australian Battlefields
		The Australian 5th Division objectives were the Peronne Bridges and Peronne, while the Australian 2nd Divisions was the bridgehead at Halle then Mont St Quentin and finally the Australian 3rd Division was to capture the high ground north east of Clery, then Bouchavesnes spur.
		The 2nd Division battalions to assault Mont St Quentin were the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th all from NSW.
		The 9th Brigade of the Australian 3rd Division and the British 18th Division, which were holding the northern sector, are eventually driven back to the outskirts of Villers-Bretonneux.
	www.ciaops.com /guides/battle/page3.htm

	The Royal Regiment of Wales
		The 2nd Battalion fought through the desperate Third Battle of Ypres in the Summer and Autumn of 1917, and then at Cambrai in November and December it earned what is perhaps its greatest honour in the War.
		The 2nd Battalion served the rest of the War in France.
		The 2nd Battalion advancing south of the village in the leading line was mown down by machine guns in the first few minutes and lost 11 officers and 235 men killed and missing and 4 officers and 149 men wounded out of a total of 21 officers and 578 men.
	www.rrw.org.uk /museums/brecon/fact_sheets/10.htm

	The Hins World War II Collection - The Netherlands
		Although the First Canadian Army, as such, took no part in the crossings, the troops of the 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade, under British command, participated in the crossing of the Rhine at Rees, and the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, still with the 6th Airborne Division, dropped successfully east of the river near Wesel.
		The 3rd Division, on the Corps' left flank, was charged with clearing the area adjoining the Ijssel and after several days of stiff fighting occupied the historic Zutphen on April 6.
		In the Western Netherlands the 1st Canadian Corps, comprising the 1st Canadian Infantry Division, and the 5th Canadian Armoured Division, under the command of Lieutenant-General Charles Foulkes, was responsible for the liberation of the area north of the Maas River.
	home.hetnet.nl /~pa3geg/Netherlands.htm

	Trenches on the Web - Special: ANZAC Memories
		Whilst generous by the standards of First World War armies, such conditions were not necessarily all that favourable when compared to the average wage in Australia in 1914.
		It was divided, and for the rest of the war the Australians would fight in two widely separated theatres: France and the Middle East.
		Beginning with the diversionary attack at Fromelles by the 5th Division in which they suffered 5,533 casualties in a single twenty-four hour period, the Australians were fed in to successive attacks in which enormous casualties were sustained for minimal gains in ground.
	www.worldwar1.com /sfanzac.htm

	Lest We Forget - Poland in World War II
		Unlike after World War I, where the Allies stood by Poland in the post-war negotiations, retaining her borders and sovereignty, after the end of World War Two, Poland was abandoned, and "given" to the Soviet Union.
		Italian war correspondents came upon the scene and were told by German soldiers that it resulted from the cavalry having charged the tanks.
		The Polish 1st Armored Division, with its Canadian comrades, was given the task of breaking the German line and completing the encirclement of the Germans.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/9764/warpoland.html

	World War I, The Great War
		When World War I began, she volunteered to serve as an army nurse.
		--It is not my intention to tell the entire story of World War 1, but to provide the visitor with an overview of Canada's role in this terrible conflict which cost the lives of more than 56,500 Canadian soldiers.
		This position formed a salient in the British line, and in order to preserve the integrity of that line (in other words to make it stronger), it was necessary to take the village of Neuve Chapelle.
	www.rockingham.k12.va.us /EMS/WWI/WWI.html

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		He is the first Coast Guardsman killed in action since the Vietnam War.
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		For a historical look at U.S. war casualties, click here.
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	Second World War Books: Books by Subject
		British Armies in World War Two: An Organisational History, vol 4.
		British Armies in World War Two: Organisational History, vol 3.
		Swift and the Bold: The Story of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the Second World War, 1939-45.
	www.sonic.net /~bstone/bib/bib157030.shtml

	Documents Relating to World War I
		International Diplomacy from the Congo to World War I By E. Morel Excerpts from Truth and the War (London: National Labour Press, 1916).
		F.S. Northedge and M.J. Grieve, A Hundred Years of International Relations, (New York: Praeger, 1971), Chapter 5, "The Approach to the First World War," pp.
		German and Austro-Hungarian Internment during World War One in the United States
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/ww1.htm

	2nd Division, 1914-1918
		One of the first Divisions to move to France, the 2nd Division remained on the Western Front throughout the war.
		2nd Divisional Train ASC (8, 11, 28, 31, 35 Companies.
		The Division was selected to be one that would advance into Germany and form part of the Occupation Force at Cologne.
	www.1914-1918.net /2div.htm

	World War II Plus 55 - October 18th-24th, 1942
		Mary Lindell, a decorated British Red Cross officer of World War I and holder of the Croix de Guerre from 1916, parachutes into France to establish the "Marie-Claire" escape line for Allied airmen.
		If an aerial observer was to look down at the deployments of the British 8th Army at El Alamein, he would see a vast concentration of food, ammunition, and petrol in the southern part of the line, with tracks leading from the rail lines to the staging areas.
		Their divisions are to take Miteiriya Ridge, codenamed "Oxalic," and grind two corridors through the minefields.
	www.usswashington.com /dl17oc42.htm

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	The Long, Long Trail
		Welcome to The Long, Long Trail: the story of the British Army in the Great War of 1914-1918
		A collection of stories of soldiers, the ordinary heroes that made up the British Army of 1914-1918.
		Take a few moments for a virtual tour of the battlefields of the Great War.
	www.1914-1918.net

	The History Place - World War Two in Europe Timeline
		U.S. in World War II in the Pacific
		- World War One ends with German defeat.
		- British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons of mass executions of Jews by Nazis; U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/ww2time.htm

	WW II Codes and Ciphers
		British cryptanalysts, Alan Turing at the forefront, changed the course of the Second World War and created the foundation for the modern computer.
		An interactive exploration of Bletchley Park and World War II code breaking from 1938 to the present day.
		Written by members of the United States 6812th Division who were seconded to the Bombe outstation at Eastcote in North London in 1944.
	www.codesandciphers.org.uk

	Articles - British 4th Infantry Division
		The British 4th Infantry Division served during World War II in France in 1940, North Africa and Italy.
		The 4th Division's history traces back to the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 during the Peninsula War.
		See British 4th Division (World War I) for the division's World War I history.
	www.mafox.com /articles/British_4th_Infantry_Division (187 words)

	British 2nd Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The British 2nd Infantry Division fought in Burma against the Japanese during World War II.
		See British 2nd Division (World War I) for the division's World War I history.
		The current role of the division is the defence of the north of the United Kingdom.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/2nd_Division_%28British%29 (103 words)

	New Zealand 2nd Division
		The New Zealand 2nd Division was that country's major land formation during much of World War II.
		Along with the British and Australian forces that formed the bulk of the rest of the British Empire forces in the country, it was unceremoniously bundled out of the mainland by the Germans.
		The division's return to Europe was made during the campaign in Italy.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/New-Zealand-2nd-Division.htm (587 words)

	British 32nd Division
		95th Brigade The brigade moved to the British 5th Division (World War I) in December 1915, swapping with the 14th Brigade.
		Infobox-British-WWI-division insignia name: 32nd Division colour ddbbbb army New Army (British) formation-date 1915 demobilization-date 1919 prev-name: British 31st Division prev-colour ddbbbb next-name: British 33rd Division next-colour ddbbbb The British 32nd Division was a New Army (British) division (military) that was originally made up of battalions raised by public subscription or private patronage.
		It served in France on the Western Front (WWI) for the duration of the World War I. The divisions insignia was four eights arranged in an X shape.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /British-World-War-I-divisions/British-32nd-Division.html (339 words)

	Second Panzer Division
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		Panzer Division is a member of the Tactical Studies Group (TSG), a non-political organization intended solely for the purpose of public education, and personal recreation.
		Members of 2nd Panzer and the Tactical Studies Group are prohibited from membership in any fascist, para-military, or militia organizations.
	www.panzerdivision.org (587 words)

	Your Place And Mine - Tyrone -
		It was from their base in Texas that they arrived in Caledon in 1942 for training by the British army in the new techniques of war that had developed during WWII.
		An historic regiment, it had been founded on June 26th 1812, first fighting in the War of 1812 but then remaining relatively inactive until the Civil War.
		It is interesting to note that as a regiment it fought in the Arizona campaign of 1866, the Idaho campaign of 1868 and the Battle of the Little Big Horn and then in 1869 it become the regiment chosen to be the first garrison for the newly acquired territory of Alaska.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northernireland/yourplaceandmine/tyrone/caledon_us_soldiers.shtml (592 words)

	French2nd.html
		The 2nd Armored Division is a Free French non-standing provisional unit originally authorized by the NWHA Board of Directors for participation in the Normandy event held June 3rd and 4th, 2000 at Fort Stevens, Oregon.
		Initial elements of the division were dispatched to blunt the counterattacks launched by the German reserve panzer divisions on Mortain on August 6-9.
		Two divisions guarded the ports and the 11th Panzer division was held in reserve.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/FJ6/French2nd.html (2562 words)

	U.S. 106th Infantry Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 106th Infantry Division was a unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.
		The 422d and 423d Infantry Regiments were encircled and cut off from the remainder of the Division by a junction of enemy forces in the vicinity of Schonberg.
		The 106th Infantry Division arrived in the United Kingdom, 17 November 1944, and trained briefly, then moved to France, 6 December.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/US_106th_Infantry_Division (501 words)

	First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Charles Monro
		With the outbreak of war in Europe in August 1914 Monro was despatched to France in command of the British 2nd Division in Douglas Haig's I Corps.
		Monro joined the British Army in 1879 and served as a Major in staff positions during the South African War of 1899-1902.
		Sir Charles Carmichael Monro (1860-1929) was responsible for overseeing the evacuation of the Gallipoli peninsula in October 1915, placed into effect in December 1915/January 1916.
	www.firstworldwar.com /bio/monro.htm (421 words)

	2nd Division, 1914-1918
		One of the first Divisions to move to France, the 2nd Division remained on the Western Front throughout the war.
		The story of the British Army in the First World War
		The Division was selected to be one that would advance into Germany and form part of the Occupation Force at Cologne.
	www.1914-1918.net /2div.htm (1034 words)

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