About: West Sussex County Division     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Unit108189659, within Data Space : dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.demo.openlinksw.com/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FWest_Sussex_County_Division&invfp=IFP_OFF&sas=SAME_AS_OFF

The West Sussex County Division was a formation of the British Army, raised in the Second World War and formed by the redesignation of Brocforce on 9 November 1940. On 18 February 1941, the headquarters was redesignated as the Essex County Division. It was commanded by four officers, Major-General Edwin Morris from formation until 16 December, Brigadier until 29 December, Major-General Sir Oliver Leese until 30 January 1941 and then Brigadier . It was an infantry only formation consisting of two Independent Infantry Brigades. Usually, combat support, artillery, engineers etc., would be provided by other local formations, exceptionally, for a county division, the 29th Brigade Group commanded additional units.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • West Sussex County Division (en)
rdfs:comment
  • The West Sussex County Division was a formation of the British Army, raised in the Second World War and formed by the redesignation of Brocforce on 9 November 1940. On 18 February 1941, the headquarters was redesignated as the Essex County Division. It was commanded by four officers, Major-General Edwin Morris from formation until 16 December, Brigadier until 29 December, Major-General Sir Oliver Leese until 30 January 1941 and then Brigadier . It was an infantry only formation consisting of two Independent Infantry Brigades. Usually, combat support, artillery, engineers etc., would be provided by other local formations, exceptionally, for a county division, the 29th Brigade Group commanded additional units. (en)
foaf:name
  • West Sussex County Division (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flag_of_the_British_Army.svg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Westsussex_county.svg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
thumbnail
branch
caption
  • Formation sign of the West Sussex County Division (en)
dates
role
  • Home defence (en)
type
  • Static Division (en)
unit name
  • West Sussex County Division (en)
has abstract
  • The West Sussex County Division was a formation of the British Army, raised in the Second World War and formed by the redesignation of Brocforce on 9 November 1940. On 18 February 1941, the headquarters was redesignated as the Essex County Division. It was commanded by four officers, Major-General Edwin Morris from formation until 16 December, Brigadier until 29 December, Major-General Sir Oliver Leese until 30 January 1941 and then Brigadier . It was an infantry only formation consisting of two Independent Infantry Brigades. Usually, combat support, artillery, engineers etc., would be provided by other local formations, exceptionally, for a county division, the 29th Brigade Group commanded additional units. It was commanded by XII Corps until 15 January 1941 and then by IV Corps. (en)
gold:hypernym
schema:sameAs
dbp:wordnet_type
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
active years end year
active years start year
role
  • Home defence
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 50 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software