The 61st Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised in 1939 as part of the expansion of the Territorial Army in response to the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. The div
Men of the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment undertaking battle training at Coleraine, Northern Ireland, 16 June 1941.
Men of the 6th Royal Berkshire Regiment, manning a roadblock, practice attacking German tanks.
Men of the 4th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment training in Omagh, Northern Ireland, 5 February 1942
An example of deployed decoy Landing Craft Tanks.
The 55th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army's Territorial Army that was formed in 1920 and existed through the Second World War, although it did not see combat. The divisio
61st Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
…80th Division. By mid-1944, the five Lower Establishment divisions allocated to home defence duties (the 38th (Welsh), the 45th, the 47th (London), the 55th (West Lancashire), and the 61st) had a combined total of 17,845 men. Of this number, around 13,000 were available as replacements for the 21st Army Group fighting in…
Universal Carriers of the 9th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool), of the 164th Brigade, moving through a Sussex village, 3 July 1941.