The 49th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division fought in the First World War in the trenches of the Western Front, in the fields of France and Flanders. During t
Badge worn at the top of the sleeve between the wars and early in the Second World War, made of white metal.
Badge, second pattern, adopted in Iceland during the Second World War.
British troops returning from leave, Mailly Maillet, November 1916. The group of soldiers includes men of the Lancashire Fusiliers, York and Lancaster Regiment, and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), from the 49th Division.
Some members of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment testing gas equipment on board the Polish liner MS Sobieski, April 1940. She was lying off Gourock, Scotland and had been used as a troopship for some months.
Liberation of Arnhem
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Operation Anger was a military operation to seize the city of Arnhem in April 1945, during the closing stages of the Second World War. It is also known as the Second Battle of Arnhem or the Liberation
49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
…cleared in early April, before advancing north-eastwards towards Arnhem. The 49th Division's last major contribution to the Second World War was the liberation of Arnhem and the fierce battles that led to it. The division, now part of I Canadian Corps, under Lieutenant General Charles Foulkes, and supported by Canadian…
A Sherman Crab Flail Tank outside burning buildings in Arnhem, 14 April.
Major Allied operations along the Lower Rhine in 1945.
A Buffalo crosses the IJssel on 13 April. Notice the demolished railway bridge in the background.
Infantry and a Humber scout car advance through Arnhem, 14 April.