The 5th Infantry Division was a regular army infantry division of the British Army. It was established by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington for service in the Peninsular War, as part of the Ang
Black Watch at Quatre Bras
Men of the 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, undergoing anti-gas respirator inspection behind breastworks just in front of the Yser Canal, spring 1915.
Officers of 'D' Company, 1st Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, at Burnt Farm, about 400 yards from Wulverghem Church and 500 yards from the front line. Left to right: Lieutenant Wheeler, Lieutenant Wood (standing), Captain R.E. Partridge, Lieutenant Morley.
Tommies of the 1st Battalion, Norfolk Regiment in France, May 1916.
The 1st Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and the present. It was raised by Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley for s
Two officers of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers man a machine gun on the Western Front, 1915.
German troops inspect a British improvised pier, made of abandoned vehicles, at Dunkirk.
As a charge explodes nearby, troops of the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment scramble up cliffs during a live-firing exercise at Cromer in Norfolk, 21 April 1942.
Men of the 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters firing a captured German MG42 machine gun, 27 April 1943.