43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division

The 43rd ( Wessex ) Infantry Division was a division of the British Territorial Army, which was first erected in 1908.

When the Territorial Army was reorganized after the end of World War I, she was also - 1920 - reorganized. When the Territorial Army was doubled in 1939, they formed a ' second line duplicate ', the 45th ( Wessex ) Infantry Division. She struggled with the landing in Normandy in the summer of 1944, when heavy losses Battle of Caen, crossed the Seine and the first fought in Operation Market Garden (failed conquest of the Arnhem bridge ). In January 1945 she fought in Operation Blackcock ( conquest of the ' Ruhr- triangle ' approximately between the towns of Roermond, Sittard and Heinberg from 14 to 26 January 1945).

At the end of the Second World War, it was at Cuxhaven.

Commanders

  • Major - General Arthur Floyer - Acland ( from December 1938)
  • Major - General Robert Pollock (1940-1941)
  • Major - General Charles Allfrey (1941-1942)
  • Major-General Ivor Thomas (from 1942)
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