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61st South Midland Division - Taken by Patricia Hughes 25 Aug 2017
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61st South Midland Division - Taken by Patricia Hughes 25 Aug 2017
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61st Division - Taken by Simon Armstrong 10 Jul 2018
Reference WMO/85928
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To the glory of God/and in grateful memory of the/ officers, non-commissioned officers and men/ of the sixty first South Midland Division /who fell in the Great War The Division raised in 1914 comprised units recruited in the/ Counties of Berks Buckingham Gloucester Oxford Warwick/ and Worcester and was placed under the command of James/Fourth Marquis of Salisbury KG. The division proceeded in / 1916 under Major-General Sir Colin Mackenzie KCB to France where it served with conspicuous valour on all parts/ of the British Front in that country and in Belgium from Ypres to St Quentin. In 1919 the Division was disbanded at the close of the Great War and the glorious victory of the allies, to which it had contributed by the sacrifice of many valuable lives and by continuous and gallant services Ypres/ Laventie/ Arras/ Ancre/ Cambrai/ St Quentin On raised line beneath are the following words with dates 1914 to left and 1919 to right at foot of each side panel. Act well your part. There all the honour lies
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