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Their discipline and smartness were impressive, and they were more obviously at home in the jungle than any troops I had yet seen... I was at once struck by two things. First, by the horde of unarmed porters who were needed to carry supplies, ammunition, baggage and the heavier weapons, and secondly
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The division was originally intended to operate on a pack basis, with porters carrying all equipment and supplies. Lieutenant
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mythology, and drawn so that when a soldier raised his weapon to fire, the spider would appear to be going forwards.
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African Division mingle with Indian soldiers after their arrival in India for jungle training.
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Major
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Doctors operating on some of the 81st
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81st (West
African) Infantry Division Troops Company Composite Platoon (WAASC)
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3rd (West
African) Field Ambulance, West African Army Medical Corps (WAAMC)
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81st (West African) Reconnaissance Regiment, West African Armoured Corps
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81st (West African) Division Regiment, West African Armoured Corps
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81st (West African) Infantry Division Transport Regiment (WAASC)
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The inspiration for the division's formation came from General
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7th (West African) Field Company, West African Engineers (WAE)
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3rd (West African) Light Battery, West African Artillery (WAA)
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1002nd Detachment (West African) Mobile Workshops, (WAEME)
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On reorganisation to a standard divisional establishment.
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From formation to reorganisation during September 1944.
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Military units and formations in Burma in World War II
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Reorganised as an infantry brigade on 31 August 1944.
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Reorganised as an infantry brigade on 31 August 1944.
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1st (West African) Auxiliary Group (Nigeria Regiment)
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1945
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As a standard infantry brigade from 31 August 1944.
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509:6th (West African) Field Hygiene Section, (WAAMC)
500:6th (West African) Brigade Group Company, (WAASC)
439:5th (West African) Field Hygiene Section, (WAAMC)
971:"81 (West africa) infantry division 1943 - 1945"
917:Defeat into Victory, William Slim, Cassell, 1956
596:Service Corps (West African Army Service Corps)
822:Military history of Nigeria during World War II
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448:6th (West African) Infantry Brigade Group
375:5th (West African) Infantry Brigade Group
317:3rd (West African) Infantry Brigade Group
295:15 to 26 August 1944, Brigadier E Collins
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622:5th Platoon, Burma Intelligence Corps
550:101st, 102nd, 103rd Mortar Batteries
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1061:"81 (West Africa) Infantry Division"
701:1st Battalion, Sierra Leone Regiment
569:11th (East African) Division Scouts
362:3rd (West African) Infantry Brigade
181:Command, who subsequently commanded
49:of the 81st (West African) Division.
776:11th (East African) Division Scouts
707:4th (West African) Auxiliary Group
687:6th (West African) Infantry Brigade
669:3rd (West African) Auxiliary Group
649:5th (West African) Infantry Brigade
588:1st (West African) Auxiliary Group
474:4th (West African) Auxiliary Group
398:3rd (West African) Auxiliary Group
344:1st (West African) Auxiliary Group
666:8th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment
663:7th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment
660:5th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment
395:8th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment
392:7th Battalion, Gold Coast Regiment
177:, commander of the British Army's
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3144:2017 ECOWAS military intervention
3073:Royal West African Frontier Force
888:Giffard, George (13 March 1951).
635:Reorganisation and Arakan beaches
199:Royal West African Frontier Force
143:Frederick Joseph Loftus-Tottenham
749:3rd, 5th and 6th Light Batteries
539:3rd, 5th and 6th Light Batteries
486:2x Troops 3.7 inch mountain guns
341:12th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment
105:Fourteenth Army (United Kingdom)
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897:The London Gazette (Supplement)
740:21st Anti-Tank Regiment, (WAA)
716:1781 Composite Platoon, (WAASC)
704:4th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment
678:1780 Composite Platoon, (WAASC)
471:4th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment
338:7th Battalion, Nigeria Regiment
3190:Military history of the Gambia
3165:British World War II divisions
3058:1850–1856 Soninke-Marabout War
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698:1st Battalion, Gambia Regiment
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1179:3rd (United Kingdom) Division
1174:1st (United Kingdom) Division
793:8th Field Park Company, (WAE)
189:army on the frontier between
1072:Burma Star organisation page
832:82nd (West African) Division
754:41st Mortar Regiment, (WAA)
746:101st Light Regiment, (WAA)
544:41st Mortar Regiment, (WAA)
282:General Officers Commanding
155:81st (West African) Division
35:81st (West African) Division
3088:81st (West Africa) Division
3068:1866 Capture of Tubabkolong
619:26th Motor Ambulance Convoy
616:Air Support Liaison Section
533:101st Light Regiment,(WAA)
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2526:57th (2nd West Lancashire)
1038:. Pen and Sword Military.
827:The Gambia in World War II
628:6th Field Security Section
489:1 Troop 4 x 3 inch Mortars
305:Formation and North Arakan
252:Character and organisation
205:, against the Italians in
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213:, a cunning character in
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3134:2006 coup d'etat attempt
3109:1981 coup d'état attempt
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2536:59th (2nd North Midland)
1077:British Military History
978:British Military History
790:6th Field Company, (WAE)
787:5th Field Company, (WAE)
784:3rd Field Company, (WAE)
580:3rd Field Company, (WAE)
494:6th Field Company, (WAE)
427:3rd Field Company, (WAE)
2586:69th (2nd East Anglian)
2556:63rd (2nd Northumbrian)
1898:Durham and North Riding
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709:(Sierra Leone Regiment)
476:(Sierra Leone Regiment)
203:11th (African) Division
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2500:55th (West Lancashire)
2440:42nd (East Lancashire)
1824:55th (West Lancashire)
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571:(from 20 January 1944)
415:3.7 inch mountain guns
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1769:44th (Home Counties)
1547:17th Gurkha Division
1501:44th (Home Counties)
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1216:Administrative units
1206:Post-Cold War period
1143:Guards and Parachute
1136:Administrative units
1065:Orders of Battle.com
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625:16th Provost Section
552:(8 x 3 inch mortars)
246:Indian National Army
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1744:23rd (Northumbrian)
1506:50th (Northumbrian)
529:(joined 6 May 1943)
388:Gold Coast Regiment
326:on 8 November 1943
139:Christopher Woolner
3104:Gambia Field Force
2606:63rd (Royal Naval)
2566:65th (2nd Lowland)
2470:49th (West Riding)
2067:82nd (West Africa)
2062:81st (West Africa)
2052:11th (East Africa)
1888:Devon and Cornwall
1880:"County Divisions"
1794:49th (West Riding)
1569:Second World War (
1537:Artillery Division
1440:49th (West Riding)
497:3rd Survey Section
482:(left 24 May 1944)
430:4th Survey Section
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352:(left 14 May 1943)
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