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	32nd Division in WWII, part 11
		The 32nd Division (less its 126th Infantry) was committed on the left of the 25th Division, and by 2 February it had crossed the Agno River and cleared the enemy from the Natividad-San Nicolas-Tayug triangle and captured Santa Maria.
		As an interior division in the I Corps attack, the 32nd was largely limited to frontal attacks along routes which the enemy was well prepared to defend from dug in positions covered by mines, small arms fire, and bands of machine gun fire, and further supported by registered mortar and artillery fire.
		The 32nd was to be withdrawn from Villa Verde Trail as soon as the tactical situation permitted, and was later to relieve the 33rd Division in its zone of action.
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	British 32nd Division
		The British 32nd Division was a New Army division that was originally made up of battalions raised by public subscription or private patronage.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 September 1915.
		The brigade moved to the 5th Division in December 1915, swapping with the 14th Brigade.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/b/br/british_32nd_division.html (310 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of British divisions in WWI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The British 7th Division was a Regular Army division that was formed by combining battalions returning from outposts in the British Empire at the outbreak of the France on 6 October, 1914.
		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 British 61st (2nd South Midland) Division was a second-line Territorial Army division raised in 1915 as a reserve for the first-line battalions of the 48th (South Midland) Division.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-British-divisions-in-WWI (1632 words)

	British 5th Division (World War I) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The British 5th Division was a permanently established Regular Army division that was amongst the first to be sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
		In December 1915 the brigade moved to the 32nd Division, being replaced by the 95th Brigade.
		The brigade joined the division in December 1915 from the 32nd Division, swapping with the 14th Brigade.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/British_5th_Division_%28World_War_I%29 (290 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kitchener's Army (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Pals battalions of World War I were units of the British Army that consisted of men who had enlisted together at special local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and work colleagues (Pals) rather than having to be mixed...
		The 9th (Scottish) Division, was one of the Kitcheners Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the First World War.
		British military history is a long and varied topic, extending from the prehistoric and ancient historic period, through the Roman invasions of Julius CÃ¦sar and Claudius and subsequent Roman occupation; warfare in the Mediaeval period, including the invasions of the Saxons and the Vikings in the Early Middle Ages...
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	First Day of the Somme - Thiepval
		The 32nd Division, consisting of the 97 Brigade - including the 17th Highland Light Infantry - and the 96 Brigade - including the 16th Northumberland Fusiliers (Newcastle Commercials) and 15th Lancashire Fusiliers (Salford Pals), and the 36th Division, with the 49th Division in reserve.
		This was the high ground in the centre of the line, and it was vital for Haig's Plan that it be taken and that the troops reach the village of Courcelette, almost 4 miles behind the German line.
		32nd Division: In the south of the sector, at 7.23 the 17th HLI crawled out into No Man's Land, until they were 40 yards from a section of German line called the Leipzig Redoubt.
	www.johndclare.net /wwi2_FirstDay_Thiepval.htm (959 words)

	British 5th Division (World War I) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British 5th Division (World War I) List of military divisions — List of British divisions in WWI
		The British 5th Division was a permanently established Regular Army division that was amongst the first to be sent to France at the outbreak of World War I.
		1/5th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment (from February 1915) In December 1915 the brigade moved to the 32nd Division, being replaced by the 95th Brigade.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-British_5th_Division_(World_War_I).html (856 words)

	JONCOURT FROM THE BEAUREVOIR
		In September 1918 the position was a series of trenches and concrete fortifications, strongly held by determined German troops and was the last organised system to be attacked by the British before open country was reached and after four years, open warfare resumed.
		Joncourt church can be seen in the centre of the line of trees which marks the edge of the village.
		Unfortunately, the British troops on the battalion’s flank were unable to advance and the Lancashire Fusiliers had to fall back.
	www.1914-18.co.uk /owen/joncourt.htm (0 words)

	British Empire: Forces: Campaigns: Afghanistan 1878 - 1880
		The British forces were only to pleased to pull out of Afghanistan to avoid the horrendous summer temperatures and to avoid the constant attacks on isolated supply and relief columns.
		That the British were returning to reek some sort of revenge over the murder of Cavagnari and his escort was never in dispute.
		Much to the chagrin of many officers, it meant that the British soldiers had to improvise in ways that were emminently suitable to their requirements, but pitifully awful to look at.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armycampaigns/indiancampaigns/campafghan1878.htm (4310 words)

	Third Division
		The Third Division was formed in Australia in March 1916 and it moved to England to train in July 1916.
		On the 12th of October, the Third Division was repulsed at Passchendaele.
		In March 1918 the Third Division was rushed to the Somme region to stem the German Offensive there.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/3rd_Division.html (459 words)

	Anzac Mounted Division
		The Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division was formed in Egypt in March 1916 from the four Australian and New Zealand mounted brigades assigned to ANZAC.
		Even before the division had finished forming, the 1st Light Horse Brigade was sent to the Western Desert to fight the Senussi while the rest of the division moved to the Suez Canal, relieving the 1st Division, which moved to the Western Front.
		The division followed up its victory, pursuing the Turks to the Palestine frontier, capturing major Turkish positions at Magdhaba in December 1916 and Rafah in January 1917.
	www.unsw.adfa.edu.au /~rmallett/Anzac_Mounted_Division.html (580 words)

	Australians at War
		The 32nd Battalion was raised as part of the 8th Brigade at Mitcham, on the outskirts of Adelaide, on 9 August 1915.
		Unlike some AIF battalions, the 32nd had a relatively quiet time during the German Spring Offensive of 1918 as the 5th Division was largely kept in reserve.
		The 32nd fought its last major action of the war between 29 September and 1 October when the 5th and 3rd Australian Divisions and two American divisions attacked the Hindenburg Line across the top of the 6-kilometre-long St Quentin Canal tunnel; the canal was a major obstacle in the German defensive scheme.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_11219.asp (460 words)

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		The division was unusual among other British divisions in that no battle patches were worn on their tunics or helmets, aside from those briefly worn by New Army battalions bringing them from their former division.
		The 5th Infantry Division saw action in France and Belgium in 1940 including at the Ypres-Comines Canal from 26th to 28 May 1940, and then was withdrawn, along with the rest of the British Expeditionary Force, from Dunkirk.
		The division is currently in charge of the majority of British Army units in Wales, the West Midlands and South West England, with approximately 20,000 regular personnel, 9,000 TA personnel and around 5,000 civilians.
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	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla.
		In 1915 the brigade was transferred to the British 32nd Division.
		Here the division, including the 14th Infantry Brigade, was split up and reformed as Chindits, fighting in the Second Chindit Expedition of 1944 (codenamed Operation Thursday).
		On 1 November 1944 the brigade was redesignated as the British 14th Airlanding Brigade.
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	:: ONF :: Images of a Forgotten War - Unending Seige : Amiens
		Australians, British and French were also in the attack, their role being to keep clear of the advance of the Canadians, who had more ground to cover to reach their objectives.
		The Canadians of the 3rd Division had already marched about 10 kilometres to the rear when they were recalled, as the British had changed their minds.
		It was therefore decided to use only one of their brigades at the front, which required the 1st and 2nd divisions to expand the sectors they were covering.
	www.nfb.ca /enclasse/ww1/en/autresindex.php?act=ressources&id=591752 (887 words)

	British - meaning of word (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British redirects to Great Britain which is about the island and is completely wrong for the majority of the links.
		WordNet (r) 1.7 British adj : of or relating to or characteristic of Great Britain or its people or culture; "his wife is British" [syn: British] n : the people of Great Britain [syn: British, British people, the British, Brits] I vote for Great Britain.
		British is an adjective or noun that refers to a geographic location.
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	Savy British Cemetery
		Savy British Cemetery is on the south-western outskirts of the village, on the west side of the road to Roupy.
		Savy British Cemetery was made in 1919, and the graves from the battlefields and small cemeteries in the neighbourhood were concentrated into it.
		It was made by the 32nd Division in April and May 1917, and it contained 44 British graves.
	www.ww1cemeteries.com /ww1frenchextension/savy.htm (351 words)

	ireland.com / Focus / The Somme
		Beneath the screaming metal, and under return fire from German shells, soldiers were gathered in the British trenches, astounded by the din.
		Meanwhile, the 36th (Ulster) Division - aiming for a fortress called the Schwaben Redoubt - had been among the few to adopt different tactics, and before Zero Hour crawled into the grass, wire and shell-holes of No Man's Land and got as close as possible to the enemy lines so as to rush them.
		It was here, British soldiers came across the body of Freiwilliger Eversmann, whose diary detailing the terror of the barrage was plundered.
	www.ireland.com /focus/thesomme/p4top.htm (2656 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: The U.S. 32nd Infantry Division Battle to Control the Villa Verde Trail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The U.S. 32nd Infantry Division battled the Japanese for control of the Villa Verde Trail during the liberation of the Philippines.
		Surprisingly, Krueger agreed and told the division commander, “I’m fully satisfied that your division has done and is doing all that is humanly possible under the incredibly difficult terrain conditions and resistance facing it.” Krueger then instructed Gill to continue the attack with what he had.
		In the I Corps’ center, the 32nd plugged the mouths of several river valleys and the southern terminus of the Villa Verde Trail.
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	British Did You Mean british? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sometimes British applies to an area or territory currently or formerly governed by or a dependent territory of the United Kingdom, for example the British Virgin Islands, the British Indian Ocean Territory, or British Columbia which is now a province of Canada.
		British originates from the name Briton used to refer to the people who historically lived throughout the British Isles.
		British Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles
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	AEF Fact Sheet: Manpower, Organization and Casualties
		The US divisions were roughly 2.5 X the size of the other belligerents' divisions.
		This is one reason why British, European, and even American commentators chronically underestimate the level of US combat operations in the war.
		The 42nd "Rainbow" division was an exception have contingents from twenty-six states and the District of Columbia
	www.worldwar1.com /dbc/facts.htm (960 words)

	9th (Scottish) Division
		The 9th (Scottish) Division, was one of the Kitchener's Army divisionss raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the Great War.
		In the Battle of Loos, notable for being the first battle in which British forces used poison gas, the 9th (Scottish) Division assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the 5th Camerons suffered horrific casualties, and Corporal J. Pollock gained a Victoria Cross for his actions.
		Notably it relieved the 30th Division at Montauban and later attacked German positions at Bernafay Wood, where it succeeded in capturing vital objectives and forcing a German withdrawal.
	www.faqfolio.com /faqfolio/9/9t/9th__scottish__division.html (331 words)

	British 32nd Division . World War I (Site not responding. Last check: )
		; 95th Brigade : The brigade moved to the British 5th Division World War I 5th Division in December 1915, swapping with the 14th Brigade.
		See: Causes of World War I and Participants in World War I On June 28, 1914, Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and heir to the Austria-Hungary Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassination in Sarajevo assassinated in Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a...
		According to his ghostwritten biography, Morris Cohen was born as a fl sheep of a rich British family and was exiled to Canada.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /British_32nd_Division (279 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| World War II \| World War II: Capture of Morotai (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the division's introduction to combat, the Christmas present for its troops was a South Pacific cruise to Morotai, a small island in the Moluccas group nearly 300 miles northwest of Sansapor, New Guinea.
		While the troops of the "Golden Cross" (33rd Division) were en route to take over from the "Dixie Division" (31st), the Japanese put an infantry colonel ashore on Morotai to organize their remaining forces there.
		The division's 136th Infantry Regiment was to bear the brunt of the task.
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	DMVA - Michigan Military History
		National Guardsmen from Michigan and Wisconsin formed the 32nd "Red Arrow" Division, so named because of their quick advances through German lines.
		Units of the 32nd hold the record for most days in continuous contact with the enemy during the war.
		Following British seizure of Fort Detroit, Ottawa Chief Pontiac led an attack on the fort with the intent of restoring French control and a return to more favorable conditions for the Indians.
	www.michigan.gov /dmva/0,1607,7-126-2360_3003_3009---,00.html (658 words)

	Ulster-Scots Online - Content
		The division, which arrived in France in late 1915, completed its training in the Somme region before taking up its place on the frontline.
		The division's objectives on July 1 lay astride the River Ancre, and included the Schwaben Redoubt, a vast complex of fortifications and underground bunkers, which it managed to take, though, ultimately, had to relinquish again, after the units on both its flanks failed in their attacks.
		Crozier realised that Thiepval village, the 32nd Division's objective, was still in German hands and so the right flank of his own division was going to be exposed to enemy fire.
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	16thBn2ndSalfordpals
		And as he waited, he carved his name and battalion details on the tunnel walls, to ease the agony and to show he was there.
		Within hours, the young married man was dead killed in the first attack on Thiepval one of thousands of British troops lost on the nation's costliest day of a brutal war.
		She lives in Albert, which was a British garrison town on the western front of the Somme battlegrounds, and was intrigued by the soldiers' wartime words, especially those of Pte Motterhead, who came from Kearsley where she grew up.
	www.lancs-fusiliers.co.uk /gallerynew/16thbn/16thbnsalfordpals.htm (817 words)

	info: British_2nd_Mounted_Division (Site not responding. Last check: )
		British 2nd Mounted Division at GallipoliThe Graveyards of Gallipoli; A Digger History Associate Site: A Tribute to the Men of all the Nations that took part in the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915
		British 2nd Division: Information from Answers.comBritish 2nd Division British 2nd Division can mean: British 2nd Division (World War I) British 2nd Infantry Division British 2nd Mounted Division This
		GallipoliBritish 2nd Mounted Division (6) The 2nd Mounted was a âYeomanryâ division, which meant that is was part of the Territorial Army, but had the advantage of being mounted on horses.
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