Battlefield | Arnhem Part 1 | Operation Market Garden

[@jaredwhitey2582]

The second world war sadly is getting lost in history and the troops should never be forgotten for their courage and bravery.

[@thomasweatherford5125]

The “youngest” WW2 vet is now in their mid-90’s and we’re losing many daily. So sad - I wish I could go back in time just to talk to some. Of the 16 million Americans who fought, approximately 167,000 are still alive in the US.

[@flashgordon6670]

Where else would it be? Everything is History, even the Future.

[@gazza2933]

​@paddyleblanc Lose this one and Hitler's Thousand Year Reich would have ensured that you would never have got to write this theoretical nonsense!! 🇬🇧

[@pampurr1]

My uncle was killed during Market Garden. Harold Spraguer was only 25. RIP dear uncle.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Sincerest respects to his memory, service and ultimate sacrifice. RIP.

[@supercriceto]

God bless your uncle. We all owe him.

[@GrafStorm]

Thanks for posting this.

[@gordon8753]

Thanks!! Awesome video

[@johndawes9337]

the concept for MG was Monty but the planning for it was not that was Brereton

[@hollandmeester347]

Right, both Monty and Brereton are to blame for their overconfidence "nazis are on the run and are only Hitlerjugend and old men on bikes."

[@nickdanger3802]

Germany was not going to quit until Hitler was dead.

[@flashgordon6670]

Hitler wouldn’t quit until Germany was dead.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

because they blamed everyone for WW1 but themselves

[@bigwoody4704]

Germany didn't start that war - it started in the Balkans The British Crown had been sticking it's nose everywhere for 350 yrs previous. WW1 was nothing more but a continuation of old hostilities.Did they tell you The Crown blockaded German Seasports and starved 3/4 of a million German Citizens? Because the Treaty of Versailles They stuck Germany with the bill in a war they didn't start. They took parts of Germany and gave it to Poland/France . Kind of hypocritical from a people who state the Sun Never sets on their Empire and to tax one nation for a whole war. The Germans were going to want their lands back,no one at that time in Germany knew Hitler was going to turn into a bigger creep that the English Royals

[@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-]

Germany would have surrendered

[@gerhardris]

Arnhem lies not in Holland but in the Netherlands.

[@Bruce-1956]

In Gelderland to be exact

[@ECC-ec]

Monty's operation market failure 1st para paid the price...

[@johndawes9337]

NO it was not..MG was planned by Brereton,Browning and Williams and cocked up by Gavin

[@mattwood6485]

@@johndawes9337 If you are talking about Gavin's prioritizing defending the Groesbeak Heights instead of taking the bridge over the Waal, Browning himself said after the war that that was his order. Even so, it wasn't like that was a bad order. There was reason to believe that the forest contained significant amounts of German forces, and if they took the heights then the entire force north of the heights could have been cut off, not just the British 1st Airborne. Hindsight is 20/20. Add to that the delay in getting all of the 82nd Airborne on the ground and it's clear that the allies simply didnt have the necessary carrying capacity to pull off the operation. Like Anzio, it was fundamentally flawed from the start.

[@johndawes9337]

@@mattwood6485 Brereton is to blame for the lack of troop drops on day one and Gavin did cock it up he took far to long before he went for the Waal bridge..there was 20 troops guarding it when dropped in.

[@ECC-ec]

Make all the excuses you want Montys plan monty's failure British intelligence dropped the ball the IX and X panzer divisions were at Arnhem for refitting and regrouping almost annihilated the 1st para wrong crystals in their radios a huge British blunder Browning did say if the British failed to take the Arnhem bridge the whole plan would be a failure

[@flashgordon6670]

@johndawes: Who was to blame for ignoring the intelligence that the German panzer group was laying in wait for the Allies?

[@13BGunBunny]

@ 49:20 the text should say *An **_Armada_** of the Air* but it says "Amarda" instead.

[@victoriabraham3692]

my dad said the yanks dropped them all in the wrong places too which stuffed them all up

[@steveforster9764]

The air plan dictates the ground plan all Airborne troops were at the mercy of the air force

[@jaymacpherson8167]

At 3:28, “the plan itself may have been fatally flawed from the start” seems to cut Monty and those who agreed to do this a very soft landing.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

Rest assured it wasn't flawed. Instead if the US 82nd Airborne had carried out its assigned orders, then "Market Garden" would most likely have succeeded.

[@Daculaboy]

​@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 wrong. The British were dropped over 3 days, over 8 miles from the objective due to German defenses and the British tanks took too long to get there because they had to stop every few hours for damn tea.

[@cookudysu90]

If Market Garden succeeded at Arnhem the Air-portable British 52nd lowland division was going to be brought in at the Airfield at Dreil once secured by 30th corps.

[@davemac1197]

*Deelen, or Fliegerhorst Deelen in German hands. Driel is the small village south of the River Rijn where the Polish Parachute Brigade landed.

[@cookudysu90]

@@davemac1197 Thanks for the correction as it get mixed up with Deelen and Driel.

[@hollandmeester347]

It was A. airport Deelen north of Arnhem and B. part of the first English Airborn Division had the job to capture it, not the XXX corps.

[@bigwoody4704]

there weren't enough planes,equipment or personnel to get eneryone dropped on the 1st day and MONTY knew it,the air marshalls made that clear

[@steveforster9764]

​@@hollandmeester347British not English they are not the same nor are they interchangeable

[@rahnlawson9463]

The M-1 was not an automatic rifle it was semi-automatic.

[@flashgordon6670]

Thanks Mr Pedantic.

[@rascallyrabbit717]

It did not matter to the people being murdered

[@jonathanallard2128]

And the MG42's rpm are not "revolutions per minute", but rounds per minute. It's a machine gun, not a vehicle engine.🤦 And Wittman's legend has been proven to be just that, legend, and yet they're perpetuating it. So many red flags that this doco is poorly researched and executed.

[@flashgordon6670]

@@jonathanallard2128 You should watch the film a Bridge too far to see what really happened.

[@jonathanallard2128]

@@flashgordon6670 I did. It has it's own inaccuracies, still is a movie made for entertainment. A pretty good one at that. I think it's just this channel in general. I watched another doco on this channel that was similarly shitty, about the Falaise pocket. From spelling to repeated pronunciation mistakes and mentioning an incorrect river on a strategic map. Pretty bad I'm sorry to say. A lot of people watch these and take it for cash. Not the viewers' fault. You'd expect these to be accurate.

[@BobbyG-h7n]

6000lbs vs. 60,000lbs.? At 30:33, Amazing what one "0" can make. good video yall

[@jamieevans6395]

My grandad was a para on pegasus bridge ❤

[@victoriabraham3692]

my dad was too

[@gerhardris]

The goal of Market Garden was not to go toward the Ruhr like Monty lied after the failure of Market Garden. It was to cut off the retreating German 15th army getting them away from Zeeland. Cutting the off at what after the war both Eisenhower and John Frost named the Zuider sea. Alas had arrogant Monty asked Dutch whilst planning they could have told him it was not a sea no more but a lake called IJssel lake. So, the fleeing 15th army 80000 troops that would make the battle of the Bulge possible towards Antwerp. Monty idiotically admitted after the war it had never dawned on him that he needed to grasp both sides of the Schelde in order to open up Antwerp harbour. Monty thus failed to note in 1943 that logistics was the key problem and the harbour of Antwerp was the best prize possible. Any general worth his pay would note in 1943 already that after Normandy was fixed much German retreating forces would hug the cost towards the next major natural barrier the Rhine. Also thus knowing that the Schelst would form a bottleneck. So, first goal open up Antwerp. Second goal bag the 15th army on the south bank of the Schelde estuary. Only then when logistics permitting try a Market Garden. And, be on top of the game instead of delegating high risk ventures. Monty should have asked the Dutch who could have told him that landing between Arnhem and Nijmegen was possible. Thus best left to both US airborne forces. The Canadian forces hit the 15th Army. The Brits take the North Schelde and cover up to the US ground forces. Asking Patton to strike towards the sea above Groningen to block the Afsluitdike preventing V1s fired out of Holland in the West of the Netherlands. And having a tank army poised to strike into great tank country in the North of the Germain llain preventing what they experienced in Hurtgen forest. The Sigfried line below the Rhine was much stronger than in the North. Monty simply didn't understands logistics, maps, topography, how to take and excecute serious risks. The Dutch could also have told how to use radios. Monty was only focussed for his own glory. US forces where close enough by to do the ground attack. Getting Patton to lead that show it would no doubt have succeeded. Patton would have ordered to jump on or very near the bridges. 8:48

[@thevillaaston7811]

Not really...

[@davemac1197]

Primary objective was to establish a British 2nd Army Rhine bridgehead to enable further operations into Germany, secondary objective was cutting off all German forces in the Netherlands west of the MARKET GARDEN corridor, and tertiary objective was cutting the V-2 supply lines to the firing batteries on the Dutch coast. Eisenhower was planning a pincer envelopment of the Ruhr by British 2nd Army from the north and US 1st Army from the south after both armies had established Rhine bridgeheads.

[@gerhardris]

What you state is what Monty stated after the war. Alas inconsistent with the fact that both Ike and John Frost spoke of the Zuider sea as the objective. And, Monty admitting the blunder not knowing to get both sides of the Schelde estuary. There were according several sources including Cornelis Ryan heavy critiques on Monty not cutting off the 15th German army at Bergen op Zoom. The plan clearly was to cut off the 15th army a bit further so they were out of the estuary. Hene Ike we know had a strong discussion with Monty thus okayed it. Problem was due to the afsluit dike the Zuider sea had become the IJssel lake. In the long run indeed and of course the Ruhr was the goal. Monty simply coverd up his second of several blunders.

[@davemac1197]

@@gerhardris - the planned termination point for MARKET GARDEN was indeed the small town of Nunspeet, which at the time was on the Ijsselmeer lake (former Zuider Zee) coast. But you're not across the Rhine in the Netherlands until you have bridgeheads on the final distributary, which is the River Ijssel that flows north from Arnhem to the Ijsselmeer. The planned XXX Corps deployment north of the Rijn at Arnhem was for the Guards to deploy between Apeldoorn and Nunspeet. The 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division between Arnhem and Apeldoorn, with forward brigades establishing deep bridgeheads over the River Ijssel at Deventer and Zutphen. The Dutch Prinses Irene Brigade was attached to the 43rd and were to be given the honour of liberating Apeldoorn and the Royal Palace at Het Loo. The 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division would deploy east of Arnhem with a bridgehead over the River Ijssel at Doesburg. The 1st Airborne Division perimeter was to include an eastern sector occupied by the Polish Parachute Brigade after dropping south of the Arnhem highway bridge, and their front included the River Ijssel road and rail bridges at Westervoort. I have a transcript of the 2nd Army orders which should make this clear, quote --- SUMMARY OF SECOND BRITISH ARMY PLAN, OPERATION "MARKET GARDEN" - 3 - GENERAL 2. The object of Second Army, (with airborne forces under command after landing), was to position itself astride the rivers MAAS, WAAL, and NEDER RIJN in the general area GRAVE 6253 - NIJMEGEN 7062 - ARNHEM E 7575 and to dominate the country to the northas far as the ZUIDER ZEE, thereby cutting off communications between GERMANY and the LOW COUNTRIES. - 7 - TASKS OF FORMATIONS 8. (a) Guards Armoured Division Guards Armoured Division with advance at 'Z' hour at maximum speed to area ARNHEM and, by-passing APELDOORN Z 7803, will dominate the area inclusive NUNSPEET Z 6721 to exclusive APELDOORN. (e) 43 Division will:- (i) Advance, when ordered, at maximum speed and secure area from inclusive APELDOORN E 7803 due SOUTH along high ground to a point of junction with 1 British Airborne Division in the area NORTH of ARNHEM. (ii) Send detachments to secure crossings over R IJSSEL at DEVENTER Z 9107 and ZUTPHEN E 9494. (f) 50 (N) Division (i) Send detachments to secure a crossing over R IJSSEL at DOESBURG E 9081. --- end quote --- There's a map on the Vrienden Airborne Museum site that illustrates the locations (under Bibliotheek tab, page down to maps, link to 'Het operatie plan Market Garden - kaart uit Battlefield tour Royal Engineers 1945') There was no blunder regarding the Scheldt estuary. The logic of going for a Rhine crossing as soon as possible, while the Germans were still recovering from their defeat in Normandy and hastily establishing their river and canal defence lines in the Netherlands, was because it would be harder to do so later when they had time to establish those defences and reinforce them. Eisenhower was in agreement, and that was why after Cornelius Ryan's misleading book was published in 1974 he had to publicly state for the record “I not only approved Market-Garden, I insisted upon it. We needed a bridgehead over the Rhine. If that could be accomplished I was quite willing to wait on all other operations.” (Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life, Carlo D'Este, 2015) Montgomery's mistake, which he admitted after the war in The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery (1958) - Chapter 16: The Battle of Arnhem - "And here I must admit a bad mistake on my part - I underestimated the difficulties of opening up the approaches to Antwerp so that we could get the free use of that port. I reckoned that the Canadian Army could do it while we were going for the Ruhr. I was wrong." He is clearly not saying that he should have cleared the Scheldt first, he's saying he underestimated the difficulty of the task and the ability of the Canadian 1st Army to carry it out alone while British 2nd Army was heading for Germany - Montgomery and Eisenhower were planning a Ruhr encirclement with British 2nd and US 1st Armies, once both had established their respective Rhine crossings. During MARKET GARDEN, the Canadians were repositioning themselves east of Antwerp in order to prepare for an advance north to cut off the Zuid-Beveland peninsula. It was anticipated MARKET GARDEN would last only a few days, and once 2nd Army were established on the River Ijssel, the Canadian operation to clear the Scheldt could then logistically begin. The statements are not contradictory if you understand how it was supposed to all fit together. It was the failure of MARKET GARDEN that threw everything out of kilter.

[@gerhardris]

@@davemac1197 well, thanks, you prove my two major points exactly based on further primary sources. The orders blatently incorrectly also as a serious blunder by Monty state Zuider sea instead of IJssel lake. Of course any disposition of forces having crossed the Rhine would show this for the further thrust into Germany with of course one of the main objectives the Ruhr. This proves the critique based on primary sources of US leaders of letting the 15th army off the hook were correct. For even if Market Garden would have succeeded the 15th army would have escaped via Groningen not having to cross the IJssel river. The afsluit dike's existance eluded both Monty and Eisenhower. Bad generalship not getting the topography in order before battle. 80000 mostly combat hardened troops slipped away. Making a reserve to attack lateron towards, indeed,..........Antwerp. Then Antwerp as you show and I stated Monty admitted after the war that he thought the Canadians could wrap it up grasping the South bank. Had Monty simply even asked the Royal Navy then he would and should have known he needed to get the North bank aswell. Ike and Monty knew both that opening up Antwerp was paramount. Secondly both knew that bagging these 80000 men was second. And, that getting over the Rhine was third. And what as a third blunder of both of which Monty was primarilly responsible in order to bloch V1 and V2 rockets hitting Brittain Holland needed to be cut off. Getting to the Zuider sea would have done that, was it not for the fact that V1 and V2 rockets via the afsluit dike in the north of the Netharands (larger than the rich two provencise in the west) from which V1 and V2 could still be fired on Brittain could still be supplied. Those both Monty and Ike missed this escaperoute for 80000 men and missed the same route as supply route for V1 and V2 rockets knowing this was an important mission. Only by crossing the IJssel river and striking north to Delftzijl in Groningen would that route have been cut off. Which was way, way too ambishious had it been considered. Thus indeed the Canadians should have bagged the 80000 by keeping them on the South bank and the Brits should have first struck at Walcheren. With help of Naval and Airpower Mknty should have forseen to probably need in 1943 already as any good general would have planed for. Marget Garden might have then succeeded as well, if logistics promitted it. Having the US divisions land inbetween Arnhem and Nijmegan. The Dutch could have told them this wasn't a problem. They weren't asked by arrogant Monty. Given airpower and open soggy terrain the panzers ccould have been neutralized. Proof: Market Garden even exceptionally ill planed nearly succeeded in spite of that. Had these three main objectives been met the war indeed might have been over in 1944.

[@Homeschoolsw6]

Disaster.

[@jimhemphill9683]

monte's worst op by far

[@JeffMathias]

Ike made bad call to green light.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Monty couldn't plan it. He had no jurisdiction over the air forces. It was taken over by the air commanders and planned largely by Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst. Montgomery argued for double missions flown on day one. Brereton and Williams refused. Even the Germans concluded that was the biggest mistake made by the allies.

[@bigwoody4704]

they were all bad - he was a propped up fraud. He only moved after given overwhelming advantages in men an materiel. AWith exception of the drunk churchill anyone could have won as Auchinlech and O'Connor already did.This debacle is what happens when fat,drunk winston fired one good general and interferred with the other

[@flashgordon6670]

Why didn’t Monty pull rank on them?

[@flashgordon6670]

Too many cooks....

[@TheYeti308]

Was someone home . ?

[@waynelittle646]

Monty came up with the daring plan, but it was a disaster. British landing zones were too far from Arnhem. Radio's failed, and the allied intelligence got reports that two well-equipped German SS Panzer (tank) divisions were in the area around Arnhem. But commanders of the operation, including Lt. Gen. Frederick “Boy” Browning decided the operation should go ahead anyway-a risk that turned into a disaster for Allied troops at Arnhem. If the weather hadn't cleared, the magnificent Germans would have slaughtered them

[@lyndoncmp5751]

1. Montgomery only came up with the broad outline. It was planned by the air commanders, predominately Brereton, Williams and Hollinghurst. Montgomery argued for double missions flown on day one. Brereton refused 2. Browning was not in charge of First Allied Airborne Army. Brereton was. Browning had little say in major decisions. Browning thought there should be double missions flown on day one. His boss Brereton said no. Brereton gave it the go ahead. As did Eisenhower. 3. The two Waffen SS panzer divisions were not ignored. British 1st Airborne took along around 50 anti tank guns. Far more than the Germans had tanks. The two Waffen SS panzer divisions (9th and 10th SS) were only around a third of their usual strength and didn't have a single tank available to throw against the paras on the first day. In reality the German armour that played a role in Market Garden mostly came in from Germany in the days that followed. Kompanie Mielke, Kompanie Hummel, Brigade 280, Brigade 107, Abteilung 506 etc. These were all deep inside Germany when the paras dropped. Intelligence didn't know about them because they were nowhere near the Netherlands. Dont believe the movie A Bridge Too Far.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

"" If the weather hadn't cleared, the magnificent Germans would have slaughtered them"" The 'magnificent' Germans lost 100km of ground, including Eindhoven and Nijmegen and couldn't overcome Frost's paras at the Arnhem bridge until they ran out of ammo, despite outnumbering them by a wide margin.

[@bigwoody4704]

Ah Lyndon Library spouting nonsense,why don't you try your other account? Oh that's right you deleted it. Monty like Lyndon was no where around after demanding and getting his single thrust. He didn't have decency to show up to command this debacle. Like an actual Field Marshall Walter Model

[@johndawes9337]

@@bigwoody4704 still spewing your drivel boy

[@bigwoody4704]

This one's barking - like you Bernard didn't show up in Arnhem for Monty Garden - have your teacher reread that chapter to you

[@rodillsoongobacktoprintedi5605]

A certain amount of ego was behind this.....

[@thevillaaston7811]

How so?

[@bigwoody4704]

History says so

[@Daculaboy]

It was all ego

[@victoriabraham3692]

my dad was in this

[@bobbynoname2538]

Volume so low can not hear even with a external speaker. Thumb down for that reason.

[@flashgordon6670]

Operation Major Cockup.

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

All because of the US 82nd Airborne Div at Nijmegen.

[@flashgordon6670]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Why?

[@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684]

@@flashgordon6670 The plan of operation "Market Garden" was in essence quite simple. The 3 allied airborne divisions were to drop and capture key bridges over 3 major waterways (this being the "Market" part of the operation), simultaneously British XXX corps was to advance and join up the 3 sets of captured bridges (This was "Garden" part of the operation).... job done. But what actually happened was: The US 101st Airborne captured the bridges it had been assigned to capture without much fuss. The British 1st Airborne inspite of being confronted by two refitting SS panzer divisions managed to block their access to the vital Arnhem road Bridge. Meanwhile... The US 82nd Airborne divison captured one of the bridges it had been assigned, but then made NO attempt to capture the second bridge that had been assigned to them because their divisional commander was an idiot. The bridge they ignored was undefended when they landed... by the time XXX corps had reached it, a powerful German defence perimeter had been set up around it which then proceeded to hold up the ENTIRE allied advance for 2 days and caused the collapse of the whole plan.

[@flashgordon6670]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Well it was a British plan, so you should’ve used more British troops and not relied on the Americans to do the work for you.

[@bigwoody4704]

@@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684 Ah another of Monty's apologists pokes his head out of Monty's backside to explain why Monty was not responsible for the failure of Monty's plan. Montgomery failed to heed the allied reconnaissance information during the planning was the biggest flaw. The ability of the Germans to respond and take a mishmash of broken, depleted troops, hastily assembled from miscellaneous units with a wild assortment of backgrounds then organize them to fight was a big factor in the outcome. An actual Field Marshall Walter Model was there and directing operations during hostilities unlike Bernard - that proved Monty's new attempts at slithering about weren't any more successful than his previous ones *There were cock ups all the way back to the Belgian Border and it didn't involve Gavin or the 82nd 55 miles down the road. 34,400 go in and 17,000 come out.But in Britain they call you a Field Marshall for that tripe - MONTY GARDEN* 🔸 *The XXX Corp Armored column made it a whole 7 miles the 1st day as Panzerfaust teams taking out 9 Shermans 3 miles from the start .Bringing the whole column to a halt .This of course wasn't their fault but a prime example of the clownish incompetence of Monty's command* 🔸 *Why did Horrocks,Dempsey,Vandeleur sit on their arses in their tanks at the Belgian border town of Neerpelt, until the Troop & Supply transports flew over at **2:35** in the Afternoon the 1st day? Did they think they would catch up? If they were charging hard like Horrocks had promised they could have made the bridge at Son before it got blown* 🔸 *And why did Horrocks,Dempsey,Vandeleur leave the bridging equipment in the rear when the Germans blew the bridge over Wilhelmina Canal the 1st day?* *That might have come in handy don't you think?* While approaching an objective with 17 bridges over 12-13 rivers/canals? All 3 Senior British officers and NOT ONE thought of this glaring over site?* 🔸 Monty neither captured the V-2 launch sites, Arnhem or Antwerp during Market Garden. And the reprisals brought on the Honger Winter in which 20-22,000 Dutch Citizens froze and or starved 🔸 Why were Field Marshall Walter Model & Fallschirmjager General Kurt Student able to ferry tanks and troops over, rivers and canals under the ever watchful RAF at Pannerden, and Horrocks/Montgomery could NOT do the same? Not in September, not in October and not in November.

[@clovissilva7273]

Sem legenda 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@Hew.Jarsol]

Yanks 😂

[@jonathanallard2128]

You can immediately tell the narrator has no idea what he's talking about when he reads the MG42's rpm as "revolutions per minute." Yo that isn't a car engine. Try rounds per minute. And the perpetuating of Wittman's legend is yet more red flags of a poorly researched and executed documentary I'm sorry to say.

[@Daculaboy]

The British f'd this up and then the "yanks" had to rescue the trapped British and polish paras. So all you British who want to rewrite history and blame the yanks should just say thank you for saving you again.

[@davemac1197]

Hollywood is not "history" and the "Yanks" had nothing to do with "rescue the trapped British and Polish paras". If the "Yanks" had secured the Nijmegen bridge on the first day while it was undefended, the British units could have got to Arnhem before the bridge there was lost.

[@thevillaaston7811]

If you mean Arnhem, then unlike the Hollywood version of that event, the operation to bring British troops back from there involved the Royal Engineers, the Royal Canadian Engineers, the Dutch Underground, and the Belgian SAS, as well as US troops.

[@davemac1197]

The trapped British airborne troops organised their own escape, evasion and evacuation with the help of the Dutch resistance and Colonel Dobie swimming the Rijn to make arrangements on the Allied side. Easy/506th PIR only provided a platoon for security during the evacuation, since the chosen crossing point on the Rijn was in the E/506th sector near Randwijk. Assault boats were provided by the Royal Engineers of 43rd (Weesex) Infantry Division, or from the two Royal Canadian Engineers companies attached to the division, and crewed by Royal Engineers.

[@Elonmuskasseater69]

Interesting I never thought