33rd Division (United Kingdom)

33rd Division
ActiveJuly 1915 – 30 June 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
Part ofK4 Army Group
EngagementsFirst World War
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Battle of Bazentin Ridge
Battle of High Wood
Battle of Arras (1917)
Third Battle of Ypres
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Herman Landon
Reginald Pinney

The 33rd Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was raised in 1914, during the First World War. The division was raised from volunteers for Lord Kitchener's New Armies, that was originally made up of infantry battalions raised by public subscription or private patronage. The division was taken over by the War Office in September 1915. It served in France and Belgium in the trenches of the Western Front for the duration of the war. The division's insignia was the "double-three" from a set of dominoes.


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