The 56th Infantry Division was a Territorial Army infantry division of the British Army, which served under several different titles and designations. The division served in the trenches of the Wester
A Company, 1/14th Battalion, London Regiment (London Scottish) marching to the trenches on the Doullens-Amiens road at Pas-en-Artois, 26 June 1916.
Troops of the 1/5th Battalion, London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade), in a reserve trench in Chimpanzee Valley between Hardecourt and Guillemont, 6 September 1916.
Horse ambulances of the 2/1st London Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps of the 56th Division on a track running east of Maricourt-Montauban Road, with wounded on stretchers just arriving, September 1916.
Men of the 1st Battalion, London Irish Rifles training in boat handling on a lake in Pippington Park, East Grinstead, April 1940.
The Passage of the Grande Honnelle was a battle between troops of the British First and Third Armies and German Empire forces during the Hundred Days Offensive of the First World War. The action took
56th (London) Infantry Division
…Battle of the Sambre (4 November) Passage of the Grand Honnelle (5–7 November) By midnight on 10 November the division was relieved in the front line and drawn back into corps support, but the divisional artillery…
Bridge over Honnelle River, November 1918.
Canadian troops marching through the streets of Mons on the morning of 11 November 1918.