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Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt
The Actions of the Hohenzollern Redoubt took place from 13–19 October 1915, at the Hohenzollern Redoubt (Hohenzollernwerk) near Auchy-les-Mines in France, on the Western Front in World War I. In the aftermath of the Battle of Loos (25 September – 8 October 1915), the 9th (Scottish) Division captured the strongpoint and then lost it to a German counter-attack.
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Aldershot Command
Aldershot Command was a Home Command of the British Army.
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Allied invasion of Sicily
The Allied invasion of Sicily, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Italy and Nazi Germany).
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Amiens
Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille.
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Arkforce
Arkforce was an ad hoc formation of the British Expeditionary Force improvised during the Battle of France in 1940.
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Armistice of 11 November 1918
The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany.
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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)
The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.
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Bailey bridge
The Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge.
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Battle of Cambrai (1917)
The Battle of Cambrai (Battle of Cambrai, 1917, First Battle of Cambrai and Schlacht von Cambrai) was a British attack followed by the biggest German counter-attack against the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) since 1914, in the First World War.
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Battle of France
The Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries during the Second World War.
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Battle of Greece
The Battle of Greece (also known as Operation Marita, Unternehmen Marita) is the common name for the invasion of Allied Greece by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in April 1941 during World War II.
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Battle of Loos
The Battle of Loos was a battle that took place from 1915 in France on the Western Front, during the First World War.
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Battle of Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele (Flandernschlacht, Deuxième Bataille des Flandres), also known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.
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Battle of Polygon Wood
The Battle of Polygon Wood took place during the second phase of the Third Battle of Ypres in World War I and was fought near Ypres in Belgium, in the area from the Menin road to Polygon Wood and thence north, to the area beyond St Julien.
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Battle of St Quentin Canal
The Battle of St Quentin Canal was a pivotal battle of World War I that began on 29 September 1918 and involved British, Australian and American forces operating as part of the British Fourth Army under the overall command of General Sir Henry Rawlinson.
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Battle of the Argenta Gap
The Battle of the Argenta Gap was an engagement which formed part of the Allied spring 1945 offensive during the Italian Campaign in the final stages of the Second World War.
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Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, sometimes called "Battle of the Menin Road", was the third British general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War.
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Battle of the Sambre (1918)
The Second Battle of the Sambre (4 November 1918) (which included the Second Battle of Guise (2ème Bataille de Guise) and the Battle of Thiérache (Bataille de Thiérache) was part of the final European Allied offensives of World War I.
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Battle of the Selle
The Battle of the Selle (17–25 October 1918) was a battle between Allied forces and the German Army, fought during the Hundred Days Offensive of World War I.
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Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme, Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire.
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Bishop's Stortford
Bishop's Stortford is a historic market town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.
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BL 60-pounder gun
The Ordnance BL 60-pounder was a British 5 inch (127 mm) heavy field gun designed in 1903–05 to provide a new capability that had been partially met by the interim QF 4.7 inch Gun.
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Bourlon
Bourlon is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
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Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a small town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England, and is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge.
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British Expeditionary Force (World War II)
The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) was the name of the British Army in Western Europe during the Second World War from 2 September 1939 when the BEF GHQ was formed until 31 May 1940, when GHQ closed down.
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Bullecourt
Bullecourt is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in France.
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Cadre (military)
A cadre is the complement of commissioned officers and non-commissioned officers of a military unit responsible for training the rest of the unit.
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Calais
Calais (Calés; Kales) is a city and major ferry port in northern France in the department of Pas-de-Calais, of which it is a sub-prefecture.
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Canal de Saint-Quentin
The Canal de Saint-Quentin is a canal in northern France connecting the canalised Escaut River in Cambrai to the Canal latéral à l'Oise and Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne in Chauny.
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Cannock
Cannock, as of the 2011 census, has a population of 29,018, and is the most populous of the three towns in the district of Cannock Chase in the central southern part of the county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England.
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Cantaing-sur-Escaut
Cantaing-sur-Escaut is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Cartignies
Cartignies is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Cecil Wingfield-Stratford
Brigadier-General Cecil Vernon Wingfield-Stratford CB, CMG (7 October 1853 – 5 February 1939) was a British Army officer in the Royal Engineers and an English international footballer, who played as a Forward.
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Chemical warfare
Chemical warfare (CW) involves using the toxic properties of chemical substances as weapons.
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Childers Reforms
The Childers Reforms of 1881 reorganised the infantry regiments of the British Army.
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Corduroy road
A corduroy road or log road is a type of road made by placing logs, perpendicular to the direction of the road over a low or swampy area.
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Curragh
The Curragh (An Currach) is a flat open plain of almost of common land in County Kildare, Ireland, between Newbridge and Kildare.
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Demobilization
Demobilization or demobilisation (see spelling differences) is the process of standing down a nation's armed forces from combat-ready status.
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Dieppe
Dieppe is a coastal community in the Arrondissement of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.
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Diphtheria
Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Dunkirk
Dunkirk (Dunkerque; Duinkerke(n)) is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Dunkirk evacuation
The Dunkirk evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, and also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.
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Easter Rising
The Easter Rising (Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, April 1916.
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Eighth Army (United Kingdom)
The Eighth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, fighting in the North African and Italian campaigns.
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First Army (United Kingdom)
The First Army was a formation of the British Army that existed during the First and Second World Wars.
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First day on the Somme
The first day on the Somme, 1 July 1916, was the opening day of the Battle of Albert the name given by the British to the first two weeks of the Battle of the Somme.
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Foncquevillers
Foncquevillers is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.
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Fovant
Fovant is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, lying about west of Salisbury on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road, on the south side of the Nadder valley.
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Gothic Line
The Gothic Line (Gotenstellung; Linea Gotica) was a German defensive line of the Italian Campaign of World War II.
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Handsworth, West Midlands
Handsworth is now an inner city, urban area of northwest Birmingham in the West Midlands.
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Henry Morshead
Henry Treise Morshead DSO, RE, FRGS (23 November 1882 – 17 May 1931) was an English surveyor, explorer and mountaineer.
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Hindenburg Line
The Hindenburg Line (Siegfriedstellung or Siegfried Position) was a German defensive position of World War I, built during the winter of 1916–1917 on the Western Front, from Arras to Laffaux, near Soissons on the Aisne.
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Hundred Days Offensive
The Hundred Days Offensive was the final period of the First World War, during which the Allies launched a series of offensives against the Central Powers on the Western Front from 8 August to 11 November 1918, beginning with the Battle of Amiens.
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I Corps (United Kingdom)
I Corps ("First Corps") was an army corps in existence as an active formation in the British Army for most of the 80 years from its creation in the First World War until the end of the Cold War, longer than any other corps.
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III Corps (United Kingdom)
III Corps was an army corps of the British Army formed in both the First World War and the Second World War.
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Italian Campaign (World War II)
The Italian Campaign of World War II consisted of the Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe.
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Kingswinford
Kingswinford is a suburban area of the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands, England.
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Kinver
Kinver is a large village in South Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England.
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Landrecies
Landrecies is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Le Cateau-Cambrésis is a commune in the Nord department in northern France.
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Le Havre
Le Havre, historically called Newhaven in English, is an urban French commune and city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northwestern France.
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Lens, Pas-de-Calais
Lens (Linse) is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.
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Lille
Lille (Rijsel; Rysel) is a city at the northern tip of France, in French Flanders.
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Luton
Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.
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Méricourt-sur-Somme
Méricourt-sur-Somme is a former commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
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Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined.
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Ninth Army (United Kingdom)
The Ninth Army was a field army formation of the British Army during the Second World War, formed on 1 November 1941 by the renaming of Headquarters, British Troops Palestine and Transjordan.
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North Staffordshire Regiment
The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was in existence between 1881 and 1959.
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Northern Command (United Kingdom)
Northern Command was a Home Command of the British Army from 1793-1889 and 1905-1972.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.
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Norton Canes
Norton Canes is a village and civil parish on the southern periphery of Cannock Chase District, in Staffordshire, England.
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Operation Cycle
Operation Cycle is the name of the evacuation of Allied troops from Le Havre, in the Pays de Caux of Upper Normandy from 1940, towards the end of the Battle of France, during the Second World War.
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Operation Goodwood
Operation Goodwood was a British offensive in the Second World War, that took place between 18 and 20 July 1944 as part of the battle for Caen in Normandy, France.
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Operation Overlord
Operation Overlord was the codename for the Battle of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II.
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Operation Plunder
Beginning on the night of March 23, 1945 the 21st Army Group under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Plunder, as a part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings.
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Operation Torch
Operation Torch (8–16 November 1942, formerly Operation Gymnast) was a Anglo–American invasion of French North Africa, during the North African Campaign of the Second World War.
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Orkney
Orkney (Orkneyjar), also known as the Orkney Islands, is an archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland, situated off the north coast of Great Britain.
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Orne (river)
The Orne (Ptolemeus Olina) is a river in Normandy, within northwestern France.
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Paratyphoid fever
Paratyphoid fever, also known simply as paratyphoid, is a bacterial infection caused by one of the three types of Salmonella enterica.
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Pattingham
Pattingham is a village in the civil parish of Pattingham and Patshull, South Staffordshire, near the county boundary with Shropshire.
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Po (river)
The Po (Padus and Eridanus; Po; ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus; Πάδος, Ἠριδανός) is a river that flows eastward across northern Italy.
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Renfrewshire Fortress Royal Engineers
The Renfrewshire Fortress Royal Engineers was a Scottish volunteer unit of the British Army under various titles from 1888.
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Robin Hood Battalion
The Robin Hood Battalion was a unit of the Volunteer Force of the British Army and Territorial Force, later the Territorial Army.
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Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a historic parish and former municipal borough, in the Black Country region of the West Midlands, England.
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Royal Corps of Signals
The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals - abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.
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Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.
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Royal Leicestershire Regiment
The Leicestershire Regiment (Royal Leicestershire Regiment after 1946) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, with a history going back to 1688.
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Salisbury Plain
Salisbury Plain is a chalk plateau in the south western part of central southern England covering.
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Sambre–Oise Canal
The Canal de la Sambre à l'Oise is a canal in northern France.
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Scheldt
The Scheldt (l'Escaut, Escô, Schelde) is a long river in northern France, western Belgium and the southwestern part of the Netherlands.
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Seisdon
Seisdon is a rural village in the county of Staffordshire approximately six miles west of Wolverhampton and the name of one of the five hundreds of Staffordshire.
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Sherwood Foresters
The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for just under 90 years, from 1881 to 1970.
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Shetland
Shetland (Old Norse: Hjaltland), also called the Shetland Islands, is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies northeast of Great Britain.
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Sir Francis Scott, 3rd Baronet
Sir Francis Edward Scott, 3rd Baronet (25 February 1824 – 21 November 1863) was an English landowner.
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Smethwick
Smethwick is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, historically in Staffordshire.
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Smoke screen
A smoke screen is smoke released to mask the movement or location of military units such as infantry, tanks, aircraft or ships.
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South Irish Horse
The South Irish Horse was a Special Reserve cavalry regiment of the British Army.
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South Staffordshire Regiment
The South Staffordshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for only 68 years.
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Southern Command (United Kingdom)
Southern Command was a Command of the British Army.
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Spring Offensive
The 1918 Spring Offensive, or Kaiserschlacht (Kaiser's Battle), also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918, which marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914.
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St Albans
St Albans is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans.
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Stafford
Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands of England.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.
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Staffordshire Brigade
The Staffordshire Brigade (later 137th Brigade) was a volunteer infantry brigade formation of the British Army from 1888 to 1936.
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Staffordshire Potteries
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns, Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke, Fenton and Longton that now make up the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
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Staffordshire Yeomanry
The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) was a unit of the British Army.
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Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent (often abbreviated to Stoke) is a city and unitary authority area in Staffordshire, England, with an area of.
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Sutton Coldfield
The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, more colloquially known as Sutton Coldfield or simply Sutton, is a town and civil parish in Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
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Territorial Force
The Territorial Force was a part-time volunteer organisation, created in 1908 to help meet the military needs of the United Kingdom (UK) without resorting to conscription.
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Thermopylae
Thermopylae (Ancient and Katharevousa Greek: Θερμοπύλαι, Demotic: Θερμοπύλες: "hot gates") is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity.
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Tournai
Tournai (Latin: Tornacum, Picard: Tornai), known in Dutch as Doornik and historically as Dornick in English, is a Walloon municipality of Belgium, southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt.
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Tunisian Campaign
The Tunisian Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces.
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Tunstall, Staffordshire
Tunstall is an area in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
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United States Army North
The United States Army North is a formation of the United States Army Service Component Command of United States Northern Command.
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V Corps (United Kingdom)
V Corps was a corps-sized formation of the British Army that saw service in both World War I and World War II.
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Volturno Line
The Volturno Line (also known as the Viktor Line) was a German defensive position in Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II.
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Volunteer Force
The Volunteer Force was a citizen army of part-time rifle, artillery and engineer corps, created as a popular movement throughout the British Empire in 1859.
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Walsall
Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England.
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War Office
The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
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West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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Western Command (United Kingdom)
Western Command was a command of the British Army.
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William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth
William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth (12 August 1823 – 4 August 1891), styled Viscount Lewisham until 1853, was a British peer and Conservative politician.
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Winchester
Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.
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Winter Line
The Winter Line was a series of German and Italian military fortifications in Italy, constructed during World War II by Organisation Todt and commanded by Albert Kesselring.
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Wordsley
Wordsley is a village south of Kingswinford and north of Stourbridge in the West Midlands, England.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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138th (Lincoln and Leicester) Brigade
The 138th (Lincoln and Leicester) Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in World War I with the 46th (North Midland) Division.
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139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade
The 139th (Sherwood Foresters) Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in World War I with the 46th (North Midland) Division.
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1st Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 1st Armoured Brigade was a regular British Army unit formed on 3 September 1939, by the redesignation of the 1st Light Armoured Brigade.
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1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade is an infantry brigade of the British Army with a long history including service during both World War I and World War II.
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21st Army Group
The 21st Army Group was a World War II British headquarters formation, in command of two field armies and other supporting units, consisting primarily of the British Second Army and the First Canadian Army.
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28th Division (United Kingdom)
The 28th Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised for service in World War I.
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2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
The 2nd Anti-Aircraft Division (2nd AA Division) was an Air Defence formation of the British Army from 1935 to 1942.
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2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 2nd Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army.
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3rd Division (United Kingdom)
The 3rd (United Kingdom) Division, known at various times as the Iron Division, 3rd (Iron) Division, Monty's Iron Sides or as Iron Sides;Delaforce is a regular army division of the British Army.
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46th (North Midland) Division
The 46th (North Midland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, that saw service in World War I. At the outbreak of the war, the 46th Division was commanded by Major-General Hon.
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51st (Highland) Division
The 51st (Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918.
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56th (London) Infantry Division
The 56th (London) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, which served under several different titles and designations.
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59th (2nd North Midland) Division
The 59th (2nd North Midland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army during World War I. It was formed in late 1914/early 1915 as a 2nd Line Territorial Force formation raised as a duplicate of the 46th (North Midland) Division.
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5th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 5th Infantry Division was a regular army infantry division of the British Army.
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75 Engineer Regiment (United Kingdom)
75 Engineer Regiment is a Royal Engineers regiment, part of the British Army's Army Reserve.
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78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 78th Infantry Division, also known as the Battleaxe Division, was an infantry division of the British Army, raised during World War II that fought, with great distinction, in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy from late 1942–1945.
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Redirects here:
15th (Brierley Hill) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 17th (Seisdon) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 18th (Kingswinford) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1st (Handsworth) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1st Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 1st Volunteer Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, 20th (West Bromwich) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 27th (Patshull) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 31st (Smethwick) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 35th (Kinver) Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 3rd Administrative Battalion, Staffordshire Rifle Volunteer Corps, 465th (1st North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 466th (2nd North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 467th (1/3rd North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 468th (2/1st North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 469th (2/2nd North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 46th (North Midland) Divisional Engineers, 46th (North Midland) Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, 46th (North Staffordshire) Corps Troops Royal Engineers, 46th (South Staffordshire) Corps Troops Royal Engineers, 470th (3/1st North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers, 59th (2nd North Midland) Divisional Engineers, 59th (North Midland) Divisional Signal Company, Royal Engineers, North Midland Divisional Telegraph Company, Royal Engineers.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Midland_Divisional_Engineers
