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  • 8th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)
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  • 8th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)
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  • 8th
  • 8th Armoured
  • 8th Armoured Division
  • 8th Armoured Divisions
  • British 8th Armored Division
  • British 8th Armoured Division
  • GOC 8th Armoured Division
clgo:activeYearsEndYear
  • 1943
clgo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 1940
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clgo:militaryUnitSize
  • Division, 13,235 men
  • 130+ tanksref|The division was initially organised on Basic Organisation No. III (340 tanks) but on arrival in the Middle East was partially reorganised along the lines of Basic Organisation No. IV; depending on the tanks used, resulting in 44 or 48 tanks per regiment at full strength. However, owing to casualties within Middle East Command, the change to Basic Organisation No. IV was never completed.|group=nbref|This is the war establishment, the on-paper strength, of the division for 1942; for information on how divisions changed over the war, please see British Army during the Second World War and British Armoured formations of World War II.|group=nb
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