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    The 7th (Meerut) Division was an infantry division of the Indian Army and before 1895, the Bengal Army, that saw active service during World War I. The...
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  • Division Prinz Eugen, Nazi Germany 7th Infantry Division (Greece) 7th (Meerut) Division, of the British Indian Army before and during World War I 7th...
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  • The 7th Meerut Divisional Area was an infantry division of the British Indian Army that formed part of the Indian Army during the First World War. It...
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  • (Peshawar) Division 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division 3rd Lahore Divisional Area 4th (Quetta) Division 7th Meerut Divisional Area 16th Indian Division Bannu Brigade...
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    Gretna, that involved the 1/7th Royal Scots. During the First World War, the division first saw action at Gallipoli. The division began landing at the Helles...
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    Highway No. 45) passes through Meerut Cantonment. Meerut cantonment was the divisional headquarters of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the British Indian Army...
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    3rd (Lahore), 7th (Meerut) and 75th Divisions were four divisions of the Ottoman Eighth Army: the 7th, 20th and 46th Infantry Divisions of the Ottoman...
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    the 13th (Western) Division so depleted, it was reduced to providing machine-gun and artillery fire for the 7th (Meerut) Division when it made the final...
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  • Meerut Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry brigade of the British Indian Army formed in 1904 as a result of the Kitchener Reforms. It was mobilized as 7th (Meerut)...
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    states of Mysore, Hyderabad, and Jodhpur. The 3rd (Lahore) Division and the 7th (Meerut) Division were transferred from Mesopotamia. At the same time 36 Indian...
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  • First World War, the Meerut Cavalry Brigade was part of the 7th (Meerut) Division. It was mobilized in August 1914 as the 7th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade, assigned...
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    7th (Meerut) Division 64th, 73rd & 81st Batteries, V Brigade Ammunition Column XI Brigade, RFA - joined 22 November 1914 from 7th (Meerut) Division 83rd...
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    had been attached to the 7th (Meerut) Division (XXI Corps) to join the 5th Cavalry Division at Homs. The 5th Cavalry Division's fighting strength of 2,500...
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    broke out in 1914, the regiment travelled to France as part of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the Indian Corps. Negi was a 33 year old naik (equivalent to...
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    to 7th (Meerut) Division 18 July 1918 No 1 Company, King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners, joined 18 July 1918 60th (2/2nd London) Divisional Signal...
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    Batteries, 6 Mountain Batteries) 60th Division (Major General J.S.M. Shea) 179th, 180th, 181st Brigades 7th (Meerut) Division (Major General V.B. Fane) 19th...
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    7th (Meerut) Divisions moved to garrison Haifa, Nazareth and Samakh; the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment, 28th Brigade (7th (Meerut) Division)...
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    His battalion, which was part of the Dehra Dun Brigade of the 7th (Meerut) Division, immediately went to Europe with the Indian Expeditionary Force...
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  • Erdmann Parachute Division) 7th (Meerut) Division of the British Indian Army before and during the First World War 7th Meerut Divisional Area of the British...
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  • 7th (Meerut) Division The 35th Indian Brigade was formed in December 1915 and arrived in Mesopotamia in the same month. It was attached to the 7th (Meerut)...
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    divisions arrived in January and April 1918 from the Mesopotamia campaign. They were the 7th (Meerut) Division followed by the 3rd (Lahore) Division....
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    in the First World War when Indian and British battalions of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the Indian Army defended the village of Festubert against a German...
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    Battalion landed at Marseille as part of the Bareilly Brigade in the 7th (Meerut) Division in October 1914 for service on the Western Front. It took part in...
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    1915, Aylmer was sent to Mesopotamia to take over command of the 7th (Meerut) Division. However, shortly after his arrival, he was put in charge of the...
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  • Front in France. By October 1914, the regiment, as part of the 7th (Meerut) Division, was in the frontlines during the First Battle of Ypres and later...
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    during the Battle of Tabsor, by the 3rd (Lahore), 7th (Meerut), and the 75th Divisions. These three divisions subsequently advanced, despite the Ottoman XXII...
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    the 2nd Battalion. It was attached to the 20th Indian Brigade, 7th (Meerut) Division, and sent to the Western Front with the Indian Corps. He fought...
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    7th (Meerut) Divisions. (In France, these formations were simply known as 'Lahore' and 'Meerut' Divisions, to distinguish them from the 3rd and 7th British...
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  • The 2nd Battalion, as part of the 20th (Garhwal) Brigade of the 7th (Meerut) Division, was sent to France a few months after the declaration of war in...
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    infantry divisions, the 3rd (Lahore) Division and the 7th (Meerut) Division, were transferred from the Mesopotamian Campaign to replace two divisions which...
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