41st Division (United Kingdom)

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 41st Division


caption=
dates= World War I
formed September 1915
country= United Kingdom
allegiance=
branch= New Army
type= Infantry
role=
size=
command_structure= K5 Army
current_commander=
notable_commanders=Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford
garrison=
ceremonial_chief=
colonel_of_the_regiment=
nickname=
patron=
motto=
colors=
march=
mascot=
battles=Battle of the Somme
* Battle of Flers-Courcelette
* Battle of Le Transloy
Battle of Messines
Third Battle of Ypres
anniversaries=The British 41st Division is a New Army division formed in September 1915 as part of the K5 Army. The division landed in France in May 1916 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front.

Unit history

Formation

; 122nd Brigade :

*12th (Service) Battalion (Bermondsey), The East Surrey Regiment
*15th (Service) Battalion (2nd Portsmouth), The Hampshire Regiment
*11th (Service) Battalion (Lewisham), The Royal West Kent Regiment ("disbanded March 1918")
*18th (Service) Battalion (Arts and Crafts), King's Royal Rifle Corps

; 123rd Brigade :

*11th (Service) Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
*10th (Service) Battalion (Kent County), The Royal West Kent Regiment
*23rd (Service) Battalion (2nd Football), The Middlesex Regiment
*20th (Service) Battalion (Wearside), Durham Light Infantry ("to 124 Bde March 1918")

; 124th Brigade :

*10th (Service) Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
*26th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers
*32nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers ("disbanded March 1918")
*21st (Service) Battalion (Yeomen Rifles), King's Royal Rifle Corps ("disbanded March 1918")
*20th (Service) Battalion (Wearside), Durham Light Infantry ("from 123 Bde March 1918")

; Pioneers :

*19th (Service) Battalion (2nd Public Works Pioneers), The Middlesex Regiment

Battles

*Battle of the Somme (1916)
**Battle of Flers-Courcelette
**Battle of Le Transloy
*Battle of Messines
*Third Battle of Ypres

ee also

*List of British divisions in WWI

External links

* [http://www.1914-1918.net/41div.htm The British Army in the Great War: The 41st Division]

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