The 52nd Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was originally formed as the Lowland Division, in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force. It later became the 52nd Division
The roll call of the survivors of the 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Scots, after the accident, May 1915.
Men of the King's Own Scottish Borderers at Krithia, 4 June 1915.
Stretcher bearers of the 1st Battalion, Glasgow Highlanders in France, 13 June 1940.
Men of the 5th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry training in the mountains near Inverness, Scotland, 22 October 1942.
Operation Blackcock
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Operation Blackcock was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the W
52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
…attached to the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division for several days. In January 1945, the 52nd Division, now serving under XII Corps, participated in Operation Blackcock, the clearing of the Roer Triangle between the rivers Meuse and Roer. During the operation, 19-year-old Fusilier Dennis Donnini of the 4th/5th Battalion…
Soldier firing on German positions during the XII Corps offensive north of Sittard, 16 January 1945
Monument as part of the mass grave of the 186 victims of the bombing raids at the cemetery of Montfort