24th Division (United Kingdom)

24th Division
24th Division
	Patch Insignia for 24th Division
Active	September 1914–1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	First World War Western Front Battle of Loos; Battle of the Somme; Battle of Vimy Ridge; Battle of Messines; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of Cambrai; ; ;

The 24th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, raised in September 1914 from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies during the First World War. After almost a year spent training in England the division was sent to the Western Front between August and September 1915. It served in Belgium and France in the trenches of the Western Front for the duration of the war.

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