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   43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
Lineage  |  HQ (GOC)  |  Divisional troops (RAC, RE, R Sigs, RA)  |  Infantry (MG Bn, Sp Bn, Recce, Brigades)  |  Literature

Lineage
09.1939 a First Line Territorial Army Division, embodied in the UK
06.1942 organized as a Mixed Division
09.1943 reorganized as an Infantry Division
 
Headquarters (HQ)

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General Officer Commanding (GOC)
03.09.1939  Maj.-Gen. A.N. Floyer-Acland
05.02.1940 Maj.-Gen. A.E. Percival
22.04.1940 (acting) Brig. G.E.M. Whittuck
29.04.1940 Maj.-Gen. R.V. Pollok
28.02.1941 Maj.-Gen. C.W. Allfrey
09.02.1942 Maj.-Gen. G.I. Thomas
27.12.1944 (acting) Brig. S.B. Rawlins
28.01.1945 Maj.-Gen. G.I. Thomas
01.06.1945 (acting) Brig. H. Essame
14.06.1945 Maj.-Gen. G.I. Thomas
19.06.1945 (acting) Brig. B.A. Coad
05.07.1945 Maj.-Gen. G.I. Thomas

Divisional troops

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Royal Armoured Corps (RAC)
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment 01.01.1944 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Engineers (RE)
204th Field Company RE 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
260th Field Company RE 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
553rd Field Company RE 13.01.1940 - 31.08.1945
207th Field Park Company RE 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
13th Bridging Platoon RE 01.10.1943 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Signals (R Sigs)
43rd Divisional Signals 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Artillery (RA)
94th Field Regiment RA 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
112th Field Regiment RA  03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
141st Field Regiment RA 03.09.1939 - 08.06.1942
179th Field Regiment RA 09.06.1942 - 31.08.1945
59th Anti-Tank Regiment RA 03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
110th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA 23.03.1942 - 31.08.1945
 
Infantry

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Machine Gun Battalion
1st/8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment 18.11.1941 - 01.10.1942
8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment 28.02.1944 - 31.08.1945
 
Reconnaissance
48th Reconnaissance Battalion 20.11.1941 - 07.01.1942
43rd Reconnaissance Battalion 08.01.1942 - 05.06.1942
43rd Reconnaissance Regiment 06.06.1942 - 31.12.1943
 
Support Battalion
8th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment 01.10.1943 - 28.02.1944
 
Brigades
128th Infantry Brigade 03.09.1939-06.06.1942
25th Tank Brigade 01.06.1942-02.09.1942
34rd Tank Brigade 03.09.1942-10.09.1943
214th Infantry Brigade 05.09.1943-31.08.1945
   
129th Infantry Brigade  03.09.1939-31.08.1945
   
130h Infantry Brigade 03.09.1939-31.08.1945

Literature
- The Wyvern in North West Europe : being a short history of the 43rd Wessex Division, 24 June 1944-8 May 1945 [Germany : 43rd Wessex Division, 1945]
23 p.
H. Essame The 43rd Wessex Division at War, 1944-1945 London : William Clowes, 1952
xi, 292 p.
Patrick Delaforce The fighting Wessex Wyverns : from Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd (Wessex)  Division Stroud, Glos. : Sutton, 1994
viii, 243 p.































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