Talk:46th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

WW2 Order of Battle
The designations for many of the infantry battalions in this article were incorrect. A bn designated, for example, 2nd/5th would almost certainly be the result of the merger between the 2nd and 5th bns. While the british army started the war with some merged bns, and others were merged during the course of the war, this was not the case for the bns in this division.

With the duplication of the TA in 1939, many units decided to use the prefixes 1/ and 2/ to distinguish an original TA bn from its duplicate (as was the practice in WW1). From the article, you will see that this practice was adopted by 6 of the division's 9 original infantry battalions). Actually, this method was also used by the 8th Bn, Sherwood Foresters; however, the duplicate 2/8th bn was quickly redesignated the 9th bn, and the original bn reverted to being called the 8th bn. The remaining two original bns (6 / Lincs and 6 / York & Lancs), were duplicates of their respective Regt's 4th bns (although the latter had actually been redesignated the Hallamshire btn).

Following the surrender of the 1/5th bn Sherwood Foresters to the Japanese in February 1942, and the decision not to reform it, it was eventually decided to redesignate the 2/5th bn as the 5th bn. See Sherwood Foresters

As per my note on the article, following the conversion of the 2/9th Bn Manchester Regt in Nov 1941, the 2/9th Bn was redesignated as the 9th Btn. Does anyone have a date for this?Glevum (talk) 02:15, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Casualty info moved from article
"During the fighting in Italy the 46th Division suffered over 9,200 casualties, including 1,447 officers and men killed in action, with a further 6,476 wounded and 1,957 missing. Throughout the campaign, however, the division captured 4,507 prisoners.(46 Div history, p. 66)"

Is this in context to just the first campaign in Italy? I do not have access to this page, so I cannot verify. Different casualty figures are provided later in the book, which appear to be in context for just the second campaign in Italy.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 02:29, 20 February 2021 (UTC)