General Officer Commanding (GOC):

03.09.1939 (POW 12.6.1940 POW)	Maj.Gen. V.M. Fortune
07.08.1940	Maj.Gen. A.G. Cunningham
13.10.1940 (acting)	Brig. A.C.L. Stanley Clarke
28.10.1940	Maj.Gen. N.M. Ritchie
05.06.1941 (acting)	Brig. C.B. Wainwright
11.06.1941	Maj.Gen. D.N. Wimberley
21.08.1943	Maj.Gen. D.C. Bullen-Smith
26.07.1944 (killed 24.3.1945 killed)	Maj.Gen. T.G. Rennie
25.03.1945	Maj.Gen. G.H.A. MacMillan
28.05.1945	Maj.Gen. A.J.H. Cassels

 
 

Divisional troops

Royal Armoured Corps (RAC)
 

1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry	03.09.1939-29.03.1940
2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry	20.01.1944-31.08.1945

Royal Engineers (RE)
 

236th Field Company RE	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
237th Field Company RE	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
238th Field Company RE	03.09.1939-29.02.1940
26th Field Company RE	28.02.1940-12.06.1940
274th Field Company RE	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
275th Field Company RE	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
276th Field Company RE	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
239th Field Park Company RE	03.09.1939-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945
16th Bridging Platoon RE	19.12.1943-31.08.1945

Royal Signals (Sigs)
 

51st Divisional Signals

03.09.1939-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945

Royal Artillery (RA)
 

75th Field Regiment RA	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
76th Field Regiment RA	03.09.1939-05.03.1940
77th Field Regiment RA	03.09.1939-19.02.1940
17th Field Regiment RA	19.02.1940-09.06.1940
23rd Field Regiment RA	05.03.1940-12.06.1940
126th Field Regiment RA	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
127th Field Regiment RA	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
128th Field Regiment RA	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
51st Anti-Tank Regiment RA	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
61th Anti-Tank Regiment RA	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
40th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA	01.05.1942-31.08.1945

Infantry

Machine Gun Battalion
 

1st/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment

20.11.1941-09.12.1943  &  28.02.1944-31.08.1945

Reconnaissance
 

51st Reconnaissance Battalion	08.01.1941-05.06.1942
51st Reconnaissance Regiment	06.06.1942-26.11.1942

Support Battalion
 

1st/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment

10.12.1943-27.02.1944

Brigades
 

152nd Infantry Brigade	03.09.1939-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945
4th Seaforth Highlanders	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
6th Seaforth Highlanders	03.09.1939-30.03.1940
4th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
152nd Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company	28.01.1940-12.06.1940  &  01.09.1940-14.12.1941
2nd Seaforth Highlanders	30.03.1940-12.06.1940  &  04.09.1940-31.08.1945
4th/5th Seaforth Highlanders	07.08.1940-04.04.1941
7th Seaforth Highlanders	07.08.1940-23.08.1940
5th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
5th Seaforth Highlanders	05.04.1941-31.08.1945

 

153rd Infantry Brigade	03.09.1939-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945
4th Black Watch	03.09.1939-05.06.1940
5th Gordon Highlanders	03.09.1939-12.06.1940
6th Gordon Highlanders	03.09.1939-07.03.1940
153rd Infantry Bridge Anti-Tank Company	18.11.1939-12.06.1940  & 01.09.1940-08.01.1941
1st Gordon Highlanders	07.03.1940-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945
1st Black Watch	05.06.1940-12.06.1940
5th Black Watch	07.08.1940-31.08.1945
9th Gordon Highlanders	07.08.1940-02.09.1940
5th/7th Gordon Highlanders	21.10.1940-31.08.1945

 

154th Infantry Brigade	03.09.1939-12.06.1940  &  07.08.1940-31.08.1945
6th Black Watch	03.09.1939-04.04.1940
7th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders	03.09.1939-06.08.1940  &  01.10.1942-31.08.1945
8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders	03.09.1939-05.07.1940
154th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company	18.11.1939-28.07.1940  &  01.09.1940-02.01.1941
1st Black Watch	04.03.1940-05.06.1940  &  24.10.1940-31.08.1945
4th Black Watch	05.06.1940-05.07.1940
2nd Seaforth Highlanders	07.08.1940-04.09.1940
7th/10th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders	07.08.1940-30.09.1942
11th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders	07.08.1940-22.09.1941
7th Black Watch	26.09.1941-21.08.1945

Literature

• Eric Linklater. The Highland Division (London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1942) 96 p.
• James Borthwick. The 51st Highland Division in Africa and Sicily (Glasgow : Mackenzie, [1945]) 63 p.
• J.B. Salmond. The history of the 51st Highland Division, 1939-1945 (Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1953) xii, 287 p.
• Ernest Reoch. The St. Valery story : a new account of the last stand of the 51st Highland Division in France in 1940 (Inverness : Highland Printers, 1965) 227 p.
• Roderick Grant. The 51st Highland Division at war (London : Ian Allan, 1977) 160 p.
• Saul David. Churchill's sacrifice of the Highland Division, France 1940 (London : Brassey's,  1994) xii, 276 p.
• Stanley Whitehouse (with George B. Bennett). Fear is the foe : a footslogger from Normandy to the Rhine (London : Hale, 1995) 188 p.
• Patrick Delaforce. Monty's Highlanders : 51st Highland Division in World War Two (London : Tom Donovan Publishing, 1997) 240 p.

Websites

• 51 Highland Division