46th Infantry Division [British] 1939-1945

46th Infantry Division

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

Lineage
09.1939	a Second Line Territorial Army Division; duplicate of 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
04.1940	on moving to France to join the BEF for training and labour duties the Division left in the UK all RA units, bulk of Divisional Signals and Administrative Units

Headquarters (HQ)

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General Officer Commanding (GOC)
02.10.1939	Maj.-Gen. A.L. Ransome
05.12.1939	Maj.Gen. H.O. Curtis
05.06.1940 (acting)	Brig. J.B. Gawthorpe
05.07.1940	Maj.Gen. D.F. Anderson
14.12.1940	Maj.Gen. C.E. Hudson
22.05.1941	Maj.Gen. D.N. Wimberley
15.06.1941	Maj.Gen. M.C. Dempsey
29.10.1941 (acting)	Brig. T.D. Daly
03.11.1941	Maj.Gen. H.A. Freeman-Attwood
25.08.1943	Maj.Gen. J.L.I. Hawkesworth
28.04.1944 (acting)	Brig. G.P. Harding
29.05.1944	Maj.Gen. J.L.I. Hawkesworth
06.11.1944	Maj.Gen. C.E. Weir

Divisional troops

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Royal Armoured Corps (RAC)
46th Reconnaissance Regiment	01.01.1944 - 31.08.1945

Royal Signals (R Sigs)
46th Divisional Signals	02.10.1939 - 31.08.1945

Royal Artillery (RA)
121st Field Regiment RA	02.10.1939 - 12.07.1940
122nd Field Regiment RA	02.10.1939 - 12.07.1940
123rd Field Regiment RA	02.10.1939 - 12.07.1940
70th Field Regiment RA	30.07.1940 - 31.08.1945
71st Field Regiment RA	30.07.1940 - 31.08.1945
51st Field Regiment RA	30.07.1940 - 16.09.1940
151st Field Regiment RA	16.09.1940 - 10.05.1942
172nd Field Regiment RA	11.05.1942 - 31.08.1945
68th Anti-Tank Regiment RA	02.10.1939 - 30.06.1940
58th Anti-Tank Regiment RA	30.07.1940 - 31.08.1945
115th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA	24.02.1942 - 08.11.1944

Infantry

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Machine Gun Battalion (MG Bn)
2nd/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment	11.11.1941 - 01.10.1942
9th Battalion The Manchester Regiment	15.07.1944 - 31.08.1945

Reconnaissance
46th Reconnaissance Battalion	11.07.1941 - 05.06.1942
46th Reconnaissance Regiment	06.06.1942 - 31.12.1943

Support Battalion (Sp Bn)
2nd Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers	03.07.1943 - 10.03.1944

Literature

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