The 23rd Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised in 1914 in the Great War as part of Kitchener's Army. The division was sent to France in August 1915 under the command of Major-Ge
Drawing of Essex Farm Advanced Dressing Stations by Lance Corporals S.T. Smith and A.R. Watt, RAMC, of the 23rd Division Field Ambulance
Infantry and signal section of 13th D.L.I. on the Menin Road
British troops at the canteen during a Divisional Horse Show, August 1918. The competition was probably organised by the 23rd Division. Soldiers in the background are of the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards, 69th Brigade), either 8th or 9th Battalion.
General Jean Graziani, the C-in-C of the French Army in Italy, decorating a soldier of the 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), with the Croix de Geurre. Photograph taken during the presentation ceremony of decorations to soldiers of both armies after the Battle of the Piave River. Granezza, 12 July 1918
The 70th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw service during both the First and Second World War and postwar.
23rd Division (United Kingdom)
…formed part of Kitchener's third New Army, with concentration of units beginning on 16 September, the 68th Brigade at Bullswater and the 69th and 70th brigades, together with Royal Engineers companies at Frensham. It was commanded by Maj. Gen. James Melville Babington, who was at first hampered by a…
A Loyd carrier and 6-pounder anti-tank gun of the 11th Battalion, DLI parked alongside a knocked-out German Panther tank during Operation 'Epsom', 27 June 1944.