British 4th Infantry Division
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The British 4th Infantry Division served during World War II in France in 1940, North Africa and Italy. It fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino. The 4th Division's history traces back to the Battle of Salamanca in 1812 during the Peninsula War.
See British 4th Division (World War I) for the division's World War I history.
Currently the 4th Division is an infantry division based in south-east England. For a period prior to 1992 it was an armoured division based in Germany.
The division's current insignia is a tiger.
World War II formation
- 10th Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Battalion, the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- 1st Battalion, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment (until May 1940)
- 1/6th Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment
- 11th Infantry Brigade (until June 1942)
- 2nd Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers
- 1st Battalion, the East Surrey Regiment
- 1st Battalion, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- 5th Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment (from January 1940)
- 12th Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Battalion, the Royal Fusiliers
- 1st Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment (until June 1940)
- 1st Battalion, the Black Watch (until March 1940)
- 6th Battalion, the Black Watch (from March 1940)
- 1st Battalion, the Royal West Kent Regiment (from September 1940)
- 21st Tank Brigade (June 1942 - December 1943)
- 48th Royal Tank Regiment
- 12th Royal Tank Regiment
- 145th Royal Armoured Corps
- 28th Infantry Brigade (from December 1943)
- 2nd Battalion, the Somerset Light Infantry
- 2nd Battalion, the King's Regiment
- 1st Battalion, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 2/4nd Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment
Current formation
- 2nd Infantry Brigade
- 145th Home Counties Brigade
- 49th Eastern Brigade