文档介绍：51st Highland Division in France
“We of the Highland Division must not rest till we have freed our kith and kin of the St. Valéry Highland Division
and avenged their misfortune to the full.”~ Major-General T. G. Rennie, commander 51st Highland Division.
The 51st Highland Division first made a name for itself as a some open fields.
high quality formation during the First World War. They were
The Station was covered by a or gun from the
formed in 1908 as a Territorial division after the Haldane
village of Douvres. The gun opened fire as the battalion
reforms of the British Army. It was during the First World
advanced from the wood and took out both of the Royal
War that they adopted their “HD” unit symbol that they
Engineers’ Churchill AVRE tanks. The Scots e pinned
were to leave so famously painted on the roads of Normandy
down before the open ground and Thomson requested ad-
in 1944.
ditional troops. Instead the attack was called off and orders
In 1939 they we once more mobilised for war, now made up were received to bypass the position while the Navy shelled
of a mix of Regular and Territorial soldiers, they were again the Radar Station until resistance ceased. However, the
sent to France. During the 1940 campaign they fought under Radar Station wasn’t eventually taken until it was stormed
mand (10th Army), fighting a number rear guard mandos.
actions against the German advance. They were finally cut
153 Brigade was next directed towards Pegasus Bridge on
off and surrounded at Saint-Valéry-en-Caux. However, the
the Caen Canal, while the 5th Cameron’s (now landed and
154th Brigade had been detached and withdrawn earlier and
attached to the 153 Brigade) stayed to cover the Radar
only the 152nd and 153rd Brigades were captured when the
Station. 152 Brigade arrived 7 June. 5th mander
Division was forced to surrender on 12 June 1940.
Lt.-Col. Walford mand of the Brigade and they were
The 51st High