7th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)

7th Division
7th Infantry Division
7th Division; 7th Infantry Division
	The divisional insignia during the First World War (1916 onwards)
Active	1811 - 1814; 1900 - 1902; 1914 - 1919; 1938 - 1939
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Nickname(s)	The Mongrels (Peninsular War); The Immortal Seventh (First World War)
Engagements	Napoleonic War Peninsula War; ; Second Boer War Battle of Poplar Grove; ; First World War First Battle of Ypres; Battle of Neuve Chapelle; Battle of Aubers Ridge; Battle of Festubert; Battle of Loos; Battle of the Somme; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of Vittorio Veneto; Siege of Antwerp; ; Arab revolt; Second World War;

The 7th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, first established by The Duke of Wellington as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army for service in the Peninsular War, and was active also during the First World War from 1914 to 1919, and briefly in the Second World War in 1939.

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