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British 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division

	Roll of Honour - Overview - Divisions of the British Army 1939-1945
		In 1944 the division was engaged on the West Italian flank, in the crossing of the Garigliano, and the Anzio landings; and in the advance to Rome in summer 1944.
		Thereafter the division was deployed to North West Europe in October 1944, took part in the clearance of the Scheldt, in Operation VERITABLE and in the Rhine crossing.
		Part of the BEF in 1940, the division was sent to India in 1942, and thence to the Kohima Battle in 1944, followed by CAPITAL and the campaign for Mandalay in 1945.
	www.roll-of-honour.com /BritishArmyDivisionsWW2.html (2922 words)

	CalendarHome.com - First Battle of Gaza - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The main assault would be carried out by the 53rd Division, under the command of Major General A.G. Dallas, with the support of one brigade (the 161st Brigade) of the 54th Division.
		The two mounted divisions and the camel brigade would provide screens on the flanks; the Anzac Mounted Division would surround Gaza to the east and north while the Imperial Mounted Division and camel brigade were positioned on the eastern flank to hold off Turkish reinforcements from elsewhere in the Gaza-Beersheba line.
		Both Dobell and his superior, General Murray, portrayed the battle as a success in their reports to the British War Office and excused the withdrawal by claiming the approaching Turkish reinforcements were a threat and that the horses of the mounted troops had not been watered all day.
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	British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division - Wikipedia
		The British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division was a Territorial Army division.
		The division fought at Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western Front in France.
		The division was sent to Egypt in September 1914 to protect the Suez Canal from Turkish attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_42nd_(East_Lancashire)_Division (312 words)

	Battle of Krithia Vineyard - Wikipedia
		The Battle of Krithia Vineyard was intended as a minor British action at Helles on the Gallipoli peninsula to divert attention from the imminent launch of the August Offensive.
		Instead, the British commander, Brigadier General H.E. Street, mounted a futile and bloody series of attacks that in the end gained a small patch of ground known as "The Vineyard".
		The British casualties in the first 24 hours of fighting, covering the original attacks of the 88th Brigade and the two brigades of the 42nd Division, were 3,469.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Krithia_Vineyard (539 words)

	LAWRENCE ANDREW JOHNSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Division was reinforced by 47 officers and 1500 men and Lawrence will have been one of these coming direct from England to replace the losses of the previous weeks – most notably the attack on 6 June.
		British troops had been at Gallipoli for many weeks and had made no significant progress in securing the peninsula.
		The British plan was for another landing in the north of the battlefield on 6/7 August.
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	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division was a Territorial Army division.
		The division fought at Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western Front in France.
		The division was sent to Egypt in September 1914 to protect the Suez Canal from Turkish attack.
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	The Battle of Paoli - 1777
		Grey’s British brigade comprised some 1,200 men (the 40th and 50th) with an additional 500-600 in support 2 miles away and who did not engage in the battle.
		Wayne’s division moved close up to the rear of the British and encamped at the road junction by the General Warren Tavern, part way between the White Horse Tavern and the General Paoli, a tavern, named after a Corsican bandit.
		In the face of the British charge the Pennsylvania troops were dispersed and driven out of the camp to the West, many through a gap in a fence along the edge of the encampment.
	www.britishbattles.com /battle-paoli.htm (1106 words)

	Operation Sealion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Each side (played by British and German officers respectively) was based in a command room, and the actual moves plotted on a scale model of SE England constructed at the School of Infantry.
		Although there were 25 divisions in the UK, only 17 were fully equipped, and only three were based in Kent, however the defence plan relied on the use of mobile reserves and armoured and mechanised brigades were committed as soon as the main landings were identified.
		The first British counterattacks by 42nd Division supported by an armoured brigade halted the German 34th Division in its drive on Hastings.
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	"Looking Back at 'The Great War'," A Moment in Time
		Other Kansas units included the 353rd "All Kansas Regiment" of the 89th Division and the 117th "Kansas Ammo Train" of the 42nd Division.
		Arriving in Topeka, troops of the 35th Division were cheered by thousands as they marched down Kansas Avenue under an enormous victory arch and banners proclaiming their welcome.
		Similar weapons, of American, British, or French manufacture, are scattered around the state.
	www.kshs.org /features/feat1197.htm (1071 words)

	British 42nd Division Definition / British 42nd Division Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division was a Territorial ArmyIn the United Kingdom the Territorial Army is a part of the British Army composed of reserve units, or part-time soldiers.
		Originally named the 'East Lancashire Division', it was redesignated as the 42nd Division in 1915...
		The division fought at Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western FrontWestern Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West.
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	C4c From Texas to the Marne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Rainbow Division, as the 42nd was nicknamed, was one of five divisions to enter France in 1917.
		The British were to attack in the direction of Cambrai, the French were to continue their efforts to push the Germans beyond the Aisne River, and the Americans, with the support of the French Fourth Army immediately to the left, were to attack toward Sedan and Mezieres.
		One of the divisions behind which the regiment worked was the 90th, the 36th’s sister division, which had joined the AEF in June, 1918.
	www.kwanah.com /txmilmus/36division/archives/wwi/white/chap4c.htm (3596 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		The division fought at Gallipoli (battle) Gallipoli, in the Sinai desert and on the Western Front in France.
		The division was sent to Egypt in September 1914 to protect the Suez Canal from Turkey Turkish attack.
		In early May 1915 the division was sent to Cape Helles following the failure of the Allies to achieve the anticipated swift success at Gallipoli (battle) Gallipoli during April.
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	42 Divisional History
		The Division was first formed in 1908 as the East Lancashire Division, with its headquarters at Preston.
		The Division was stationed in the United Kingdom and was disbanded in October 1943.
		Armoured Division, remaining as the Infantry Brigade in that Division until the end of the war.
	www.kellybadge.co.uk /42sqnhistory/42divisionhistory.htm (570 words)

	Conferences & Seminars
		The Asian Group, consisting of three divisions supported by the Canakkale Gendarme Battalion, was positioned on the eastern side of the Dardanelles.
		In the end, Sanders moved the 11th Division from the eastern bank of the Dardanelles to the hills near ANZAC and combined the 11th Division with the 4th and 8th Divisions to form an Army corps under Faik Pasha.
		They were Mustafa Kemal`s 19th Division consisting of the 72nd, 18th, 27th, and 57th Regiments, and the 16th Division, consisting of the 125th, 47th, 48th and 77th Regiments.
	www.awm.gov.au /events/conference/gallipoli_symposium/celik.htm (4318 words)

	80th Infantry Division - History
		The Division originally consisted of men mostly from Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia and was nicknamed the "Blue Ridge Division." The unit's distinctive insignia was adopted in 1918 and consists of three blue mountain peaks representing the Blue Ridge Mountains in Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
		The 80th Division trained with the British Third Army and joined forces on the front lines near the Artois sector with heavy action in the Somme Offensive of 1918 and in the Meuse-Argonne.
		The arrival of the 80th Division in England brought the European Theater of Operations total of U.S. Divisions to 22: 14 infantry, 6 armored, and 2 airborne.
	www.80thdivision.com /80thHistory.htm (741 words)

	42nd
		42nd Division A military division: British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division US 42nd Infantry Division This is a disambigu...
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		British 42nd (East Lancashire) Division List of British divisions in WWII 4 External links Unit history World War I The...
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	Territorial Militia
		Seventeen National Guard divisions were assigned to the AEF during World War I. One of the first National Guard divisions to reach France was the 42
		Division was a composite division made up of soldiers from many states.
		The Division suffered a 30.6% casualty rate with 2,810 killed and 11, 873 wounded.
	www.iowanationalguard.com /Museum/IA_History/WWI.htm (847 words)

	the 302nd engineers in France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The British were to act as advisers in the training of these divisions; were to supply and arm them with British rifles, and in turn could use these troops as a strategic reserve.
		This latter division had suffered very greatly in the March (1918) German offensive in Picardy, and its staff was placed at the disposal of the Americans for training the 77th Division.
		The 77th Division was to relieve the 42nd, popularly known as the "Rainbow Division".
	www.longwood.k12.ny.us /history/upton/craw3.htm (2917 words)

	Rainbow Division Monument
		Every 42nd Division veteran that could be there was going to be there for the dedication of the monument.
		Colonel William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan was the fighting heart of the Rainbow Division’s 165th Infantry during the trench warfare of Luneville-Baccarat, Champagne-Marne; the San Mihiel and Ourcq River offensives; and the living hell of the Meuse-Argonne.
		Twice the size of any German, French, or British Division and about the size of a Civil War era corps, the Rainbow Division had only been together for little more than a few weeks before it was called upon to pass in review as a unit.
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		From the point of view of gas warfare, the condition of the 1st Division on arrival in the sector was not auspicious.
		The division was warned on coming into the sector that a great deal of gas was being used by both sides and that the Germans on this front were using mustard gas, which, in the form of "yperite," was still under development by the French.
		Further instructions from Passaga in late January were based on recent gas attacks against the 42nd Division, where most of the casualties had occurred as a result of faulty gas proofing of dugouts and of poor gas mask discipline.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/documents/wwi/ansau/ansa2.htm (1241 words)

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		British fleet successfully bombards Sedd-El-Bahr fort at the entrance to the Dardanelles on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
		Anzacs and British troops to attack at the Nek, Pope's and Quinn's.
		The 13th Division, 29th Brigade (of the 10th Div) and the 29th Indian Brigade are smuggled ashore at Anzac.
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	Battle For Europe - World at War - A MyInternetServices.com, LLC Tournament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Wessex Division took control of the South and East, but also dominated the seas, with the Axis Hatzukis sinking to the bottom, giving the Allied Fletchers the space to shell the North base and City, allowing advancing troops to capture them.
		Poland was the scene of bitter fighting between the attacking 42nd British Wessex Division and the defending 41.
		The British 42nd Wessex Division, ready and equiped from earlier scrimmages, were by no means pushovers and held the Finnish troops early on.
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	First World War.com - Battles - The Third Battle of Krithia, 1915
		Battle was duly renewed at noon on a sunny, breezy 4 June and was the result of a joint initiative between Hunter-Weston and the newly-arrived (15 May) French commander Henri Gouraud.
		During the course of his service at Gallipoli the recklessly courageous Gouraud was to break both legs and lose an arm (moving King George V to send a telegram of consolation to Hamilton).
		The British war minister in London, Lord Kitchener, was shocked upon receiving news from Hamilton of the extent of casualties incurred during the latest attack.
	www.firstworldwar.com /battles/krithia3.htm (837 words)

	42 Bde History
		The 42nd (East Lancashire) Division adopted a diamond, top half white and bottom half red, while the 55th (West Lancashire) Division adopted a red rose with five petals and leaves arranged in fives on each side of the stem.
		The Division took part in the advance into Belgium and in the hard fighting which culminated in the withdrawal to and evacuation from Dunkirk.
		The new division adopted a new badge composed of the Second World War 42nd Division diamond, with a 55th Division red rose superimposed in the centre.
	www.army.mod.uk /42bde/history.htm (929 words)

	The Sikh Regiments : Gateway to Sikhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		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.
		The plan was to hold the enemy in front of the beaches and for two columns to move round his flanks-one round the left flank and capture Koja Chemen Tepe and Hill Q from the north, and the other round the right flank and capture Chunuk Bair from the south.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /warriors/fww_galipoli.htm (6805 words)

	42nd Division
		The East Lancashire Division was a Territorial Force Division already in existence at the outbreak of the war.
		The Division and Brigades were not numbered until April 1915 previously just named.
		The Division served in Egypt then Gallipoli then back to Egypt and finally in France, arriving in France in March 1917.
	www.geocities.com /warpath_14_18/divs/42_div.htm (78 words)

	Firsts and lasts of the Great War 1914-1918
		The 4th and 6th Divisions of Lt-Gen. Pulteney's III Corps attacked enemy positions on the Meterenbeek, near Hazebrouck on 13th October 1914.
		On 17th February 1915, the first British mine was blown at Hill 60 by RE troops of 28th Division.
		This attack, whilst generally expected as the British had successfully attacked and captured ground here a few days before, was launched with great secrecy and achieved great surprise.
	www.1914-1918.net /firstsnlasts.htm (1188 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The British defeat at Gazala was disastrous to the British armoured forces of the Desert Army.
		The division was then re-organized to the latest type and the support group disbanded and replaced by the 133rd Infantry Brigade of the 44th Infantry Division.
		Unfortunately the division was almost immediately disbanded with the headquarters becoming the training organization responsible for mineclearing in the upcoming offensive and the two brigades placed under 10th Armoured Division.
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