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| 51st Highland Division was a
first line Teritorial Army Division in September 1939; the original
Division went to France where all but the 154th Infantry Brigade were
taken prisoner in June 1940. In August of that year, the 9th (Highland)
Division was rechristend 51st. The "new" 51st Highland Division
spent two years training in the UK, then moved to Egypt in August 1942,
fighting in North Africa until the German surrender in Tunesia in May
1943. The Division landed in Sicily in July 1943, and stayed there after
the fall of the island. In November 1943, the Division returned to the UK,
where it trained for the Invasion, and on the evening of the 6 July 1944 returned
to the Continent. The 5th Bn Black Watch was the first unit of the
Division on the beach. The Division fought in Nortwest Europe until the
cessation of hostilities in May 1945 |
| El Alamein |
23.10.1942 - 04.11.1942 |
| Mareth |
16.03.1943 -
23.03.1943 |
| Akarit |
06.04.1943 -
07.04.1943 |
| Enfidaville |
19.04.1943 -
29.04.1943 |
| Tunis |
05.05.1943 -
12.05.1943 |
| Landing in
Sicily |
09.07.1943 -
12.07.1943 |
| Adrano |
29.07.1943 -
03.08.1943 |
| Bourguebus
Ridge |
18.07.1944 -
23.07.1944 |
| Falaise |
07.08.1944 -
22.08.1944 |
| The Rhineland |
08.03.1945 -
10.03.1945 |
| The Rhine |
23.03.1945 -
01.04.1945 |
| General Officer Commanding
(GOC) |
|
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 |
| 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 |
| 51st Divisional Signals |
03.09.1939-12.06.1940 & 07.08.1940-31.08.1945 |
| 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 |
| 1st/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment |
20.11.1941-09.12.1943 & 28.02.1944-31.08.1945 |
| 51st Reconnaissance Battalion |
08.01.1941-05.06.1942 |
| 51st Reconnaissance Regiment |
06.06.1942-26.11.1942 |
| 1st/7th Battalion The Middlesex Regiment |
10.12.1943-27.02.1944 |
| 152nd Infantry Brigade |
03.09.1939-12.06.1940 & 07.08.1940-31.08.1945 |
| 152nd Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company
|
28.01.1940-12.06.1940 & 01.09.1940-14.12.1941
|
| 4th Seaforth Highlanders
|
03.09.1939-12.06.1940
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| 6th Seaforth Highlanders
|
03.09.1939-30.03.1940
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| 4th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
|
03.09.1939-12.06.1940
|
| 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 |
| 153rd Infantry Bridge Anti-Tank Company
|
18.11.1939-12.06.1940 & 01.09.1940-08.01.1941
|
| 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
|
| 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
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| 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 |
| 154th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company
|
18.11.1939-28.07.1940 & 01.09.1940-02.01.1941
|
| 6th Black Watch
|
03.09.1939-04.04.1940
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| 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
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| 1st Black Watch
|
04.03.1940-05.06.1940 & 24.10.1940-31.08.1945
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| 4th Black Watch
|
05.06.1940-05.07.1940
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| 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
|
07.08.1940-04.09.1940
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| 7th/10th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
|
07.08.1940-30.09.1942
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| 11th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
|
07.08.1940-22.09.1941
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| 7th Black Watch
|
26.09.1941-21.08.1945
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Organisation einer Infanterie- oder
Gebirgsdivision
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.
Special Note:
Many thanks to Hans Houterman for
the allowance to use the information from his page. He has created a great website
for historical informations about units of the Second World War.
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