British 9th Armoured Division
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The 9th Armoured Division was a Second World War British Army
formation. The 9th Armoured was created on 1 December 1940 and dispersed and disbanded on 31 July 1944. The division never saw active service during the war. This formation's only use during the war was either as a training formation or when it was used to experiment with specialised armour.
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
formation. The 9th Armoured was created on 1 December 1940 and dispersed and disbanded on 31 July 1944. The division never saw active service during the war. This formation's only use during the war was either as a training formation or when it was used to experiment with specialised armour.
General Officer Commanding
The 9th Armoured Division had three men who held the position of General Officer Commanding during the Second World War.| Appointed | General Officer Commanding |
| 4 December 1940 | Major-General Brocas Burrows Brocas Burrows Lieutenant General Brocas Burrows CB DSO MC was Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command of the British Army from 1945 to 1946.-Military career:... |
| 20 March 1942 | Major-General Brian Horrocks Brian Horrocks Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War... |
| 12 August 1942 | Major-General John D'Arcy John D'Arcy (British Army officer) Lieutenant-General John Conyers D'Arcy CBE MC was a British Army officer who commanded 9th Armoured Division during World War II.-Military career:... |
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