20th (Light) Division

20th (Light) Division

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 20th (Light) Division


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dates= World War I
September 1914 - May 1919
country= United Kingdom
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branch= New Army
type= Infantry
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battles=Battle of Loos
Battle of Mont Sorrel
Battle of the Somme (1916)
o Battle of Guillemont
o Battle of Flers-Courcelette
o Battle of Morval
o Battle of Le Transloy
Battle of Messines
Third Battle of Ypres
Battle of Cambrai
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The British 20th (Light) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division landed in France July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front.

Unit history

Formation

; 59th Brigade :

*10th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps ("disbanded February 1918")
*11th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
*10th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade ("disbanded February 1918")
*11th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
*2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) ("from February 1918")

; 60th Brigade :

*6th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (" disbanded February 1918")
*6th (Service) Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
*12th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
*12th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade

; 61st Brigade :

*7th (Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
*7th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
*7th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (" disbanded February 1918")
*11th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("to pioneers January 1915")
*12th (Service) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) ("from January 1915")

; Pioneers :

*11th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry ("from 61 Bde January 1915")

Battles

*Battle of Loos
*Battle of the Somme (1916)
**Battle of Guillemont
**Battle of Flers-Courcelette
**Battle of Morval
**Battle of Le Transloy
*Battle of Messines
*Third Battle of Ypres
*Battle of Cambrai (1917)

ee also

*List of British divisions in WWI

External links

* [http://www.1914-1918.net/20div.htm The British Army in the Great War: The 20th (Light) Division]


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