The 54th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division was raised in 1908 following the creation of the Territorial Force (TF) as the East Anglian Division. During the First World War the division fought at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. The division was disbanded after the war but reformed in the Territorial Army in 1920. During the Second World War it was a home service division and did not see any combat service abroad and was disbanded in late 1943 but many of its component units went to see service in the Normandy Campaign and North-western Europe from June 1944 to May 1945.
Men of the Norfolk Regiment resting on the road to Beirut, late October 1918
10th Battalion, London Regiment (Hackney) was a battalion of the London Regiment, an all-Territorial Force regiment in the British Army. The battalion existed between 1912 and 1955 and after World War I was re-affiliated to the Rifle Brigade, and later to the Royal Berkshire Regiment and Royal Artillery.
A German machine gun captured by men of the 2/10th Battalion, London Regiment (Hackney), shown in its position of fire, near Sailly Laurette, 8 August 1918.