The 46th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, that saw service in the First World War. At the outbreak of the war in 1914, the 46th Division was comman
Men of H Company, 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters, mobilising, August 1914.
Photograph showing the 46th Division attacking the Hohenzollern Redoubt during the Battle of Loos, 13 October 1915. A cloud of smoke and gas appears in the centre and left.
Officers of the 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, Bucquoy, March 1917.
Brig-Gen John Campbell VC on Riqueval Bridge addresses men of the 137th (Staffordshire) Infantry Brigade after breaking the German's Hindenburg Line defences on 29 September 1918.
The 138th Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in the First World War with the 46th Division. The brigade again saw active service in the Second World War, with
46th (North Midland) Division
…of the South Staffordshire Regiment and the Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment). The North Midland Brigade was split into two, one, the Lincoln and Leicester Brigade, composed of battalions of the Lincolnshire and Leicestershire Regiments, the other, the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Brigade, comprising the four…
Men of 'G' Company, 1/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, in Harpenden, November 1914.
Men of the 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, part of the 138th Brigade, British 46th Infantry Division, enter Salerno during the Allied invasion of Italy, 10 September 1943.