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.
Adrian Carton de Wiart
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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for val
61st Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
…Infantry Brigades and supporting elements. Following the division's formation, it was assigned to Southern Command. At the end of November, Major-General Adrian Carton de Wiart took command. The division was spread out, ranging from Birmingham to Portsmouth, and Cheltenham to Reading, and with the headquarters in Oxford. On…
Carton de Wiart as a lieutenant-colonel during the First World War
Carton de Wiart as a lieutenant with the 4th Dragoon Guards at Muttra in September 1904
Painting by Sir William Orpen, 1919 (National Portrait Gallery, London)
Adrian Carton de Wiart during World War II, photographed by Cecil Beaton