Talk:List of orders of battle for the British 2nd Division

Anglo-Egyptian War
Wyrall does not include the Anglo-Egyptian War in his description of the 2nd Division's lineage. Moved unsourced OOB here, for present.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by EnigmaMcmxc (talk • contribs) 11:57, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Moved from the article to here
I have moved this from the article to here, as quite a bit of the information is cited to sources that do not meet WP:RS standards. For example, Watson and Rinaldi is considered a self-published source. What makes Drenth a reliable source? Likewise for british-army-units1945on.co.uk., which does not explain where the information comes from. None of these would pass an A-Class or FA review. There is also a lack of consistency in the way information was cited, duplicated links, sources were not added in alphabetical order, there was no citations for the notes etc., and blank sections were added. The lede limited the scope of the article to wars the division fought in, and the added material was outside of that scope (and limited, since it did not include the entire division's Cold War OOB). One of the reasons for the article limiting it scope, was to supplement the main article that details these wars and due to the lack of available reliable sources for the OOBs during non-war time (if we add one massive OOB for the end of the Cold War, we need to add fully sourced (reliably) information for the period of 1900-1914, and 1945-2013). The article is currently at Featured List status, so we need to maintain the standard.EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 15:06, 26 October 2021 (UTC)

Cold War Order of battle
Part of the cost cutting measures of the early 1980s, it was decided to disband an armoured division and and possibly reform it as a United Kingdom based infantry division. Therefore, in January 1983, the 2nd Infantry Division was reformed at Imphal Barracks, York with its HQ and divisional signal regiment retaining a forward deployed signal troop in Lippstadt, providing a forward communications link. The division remained part of the British Army of the Rhine, but was unique in its structure, since it commanded one regular brigade (24th Infantry, later Airmobile Brigade), and two Territorial Army brigades (15th at York and 49th at Nottingham). At the same time, the division assumed responsibility for North East District.

In addition to the above order of battle, two units would reinforce the division on mobilisation: 25 Postal and Courier Squadron, Royal Engineers (V) at Inglis Barracks, Mill Hill and 103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Air Defence Regiment, Royal Artillery equipped with 64 x Javelin MANPADS based in Liverpool. In addition, some TA infantry battalions would send their MILAN (Anti-Tank) platoons to reinforce the division from the following: 4th (V) Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment, 4th (V) Battalion (North Irish Militia) and 5th (V) Battalions, Royal Irish Rangers.