The 46th (North Midland) Division at Lens in 1917
Campbell-Johnston, Lieut. P. S. C.![The 46th (North Midland) Division at Lens in 1917](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/430/43047270/CHSBZCOP0343047270.jpg)
The units of the 46th (North Midland) Division came from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Having sailed for France in February 1915 it became the first complete territorial division to serve on the Western Front. It was transferred to the Loos sector in October and hastily thrown against a German strongpoint - the Hohenzollern Redoubt - on the afternoon of the 13 October 1915. The disaster which foll...