40th Division (United Kingdom)
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The 40th Division was an infantry division of the British Army active during the First World War, where it served on the Western Front. It was a division of Lord Kitchener's New Army volunteers, mostly "bantam" recruits of below regulation height. It was later briefly reformed as a deception formation in the Second World War, and during the early years of the Cold War was recreated a third time to garrison Hong Kong.
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40th Division (United Kingdom)
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40th Division
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First World War division insignia showing a bantam referencing the division's original bantam nature.
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Used on sign boards and worn on the uniform.
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1915
1943
1949
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Major-General H.G. Ruggles-Brise
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The 40th Division was an infantry division of the British Army active during the First World War, where it served on the Western Front. It was a division of Lord Kitchener's New Army volunteers, mostly "bantam" recruits of below regulation height. It was later briefly reformed as a deception formation in the Second World War, and during the early years of the Cold War was recreated a third time to garrison Hong Kong.
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16135
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1918
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1915
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Division
