4th Infantry Division [British] 1939-1945

4th Infantry Division

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

Lineage
09.1939	a Regular Division in the UK
06.1942	reorganized as a Mixed Division
12.1943	reorganized as an Infantry Division

Headquarters (HQ)

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General Officer Commanding (GOC)
03.09.1939	Maj.Gen. D.G. Johnson
25.06.1940	Maj.Gen. T.R. Eastwood
04.10.1940	Maj.Gen. J.G. des R. Swayne
09.03.1942	Maj.Gen. J.L.I. Hawkesworth
22.08.1943 (acting)	Brig. J.H. Hogshaw
05.09.1943	Maj.Gen. H.J. Hayman-Joyce
20.04.1944	Maj.Gen. A.D. Ward
09.03.1945 (acting)	Brig. R.C.H. Kirwan
02.04.1945	Maj.Gen. A.D. Ward
20.04.1945 (acting)	Brig. R.C.H. Kirwan
25.04.1945	Maj.Gen. C.B. Callander

Divisional troops

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Royal Signals (Sigs)
4th Divisional Signals	03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945

Royal Artillery (RA)
17th Field Regiment	03.09.1939 - 19.02.1940
22nd Field Regiment	03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
30th Field Regiment	03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
77th Field Regiment	19.02.1940 - 31.08.1945
14th Anti-Tank Regiment	03.09.1939 - 31.08.1945
91st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment	26.01.1942 - 06.11.1944

Infantry

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Machine Gun Battalion
2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers	11.11.1941 - 20.05.1942 & 07.06.1944 - 31.08.1945

Reconnaissance
4th Reconnaissance Battalion	01.01.1941 - 05.06.1942
4th Reconnaissance Regiment	06.06.1942 - 31.12.1943

Support Battalion
2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers	10.03.1944 - 06.06.1944

Literature
Hugh Williamson	The Fourth Division, 1939 to 1945	London : Newman Neame, 1951 xxxi, 348 p.

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