Talk:1st Armoured Division (United Kingdom)

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There may be some merit in combining this article with that entitled 1st Infantry Division (United Kingdom). The MoD [1] and regiments.org [2] both seem to see this division as a single division which had continuous existence from 1809 through WW1 (as an Infantry Division) and WW2 (as an Armoured Division). That way you get all the material together in one place in chronological order. Also it is consistent with articles about other Divisions. Please indicate your views. Dormskirk (talk) 21:52, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, 1st Infantry Division existed during World War II also, fighting in France in 1940, Tunisia in 1943 and Italy in 1944-45. 1st Armoured Division also fought in France in 1940, then in the Western Desert in 1942-43 and also in Italy in 1944. Trying to merge the two articles would be to conflate two formations with an entirely separate existence. The two web sites listed both confuse the issue by using the linkages from 1st Infantry Division from its conversion in the 1960's. HLGallon (talk) 18:22, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

thanks for this additional information - if the two formations had a separate but simultaneous existance then I agree we should not conflate them Dormskirk (talk) 18:49, 30 December 2007 (UTC)