For 2027 Monty’s Men are returning to the UK.
We will be portraying troops of the 52nd Lowland Division during the fighting of Operation Blackcock in 1945.
Operation Blackcock was an operation to clear German troops from the Roer Triangle, formed by the towns of Roermond and Sittard in the Netherlands and Heinsberg in Germany during the fighting on the Western Front in the Second World War.
It was conducted by the British Second Army between 13 and 26 January 1945. The objective was to drive the German 15th Army back across the rivers Roer and Wurm and move the frontline further into Germany. The operation was carried out by Lieutenant-General Neil Ritchie’s XII Corps by three divisions: the 7th Armoured Division (Major-General Lewis Lyne), the 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division (Major-General Ivor Thomas) and the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith).
The 52nd Lowland were formed as a mountain division and were equipped and trained for mountain warfare. As this requirement was deemed less important the division was re-roled as an air portable division. Eventually the division was deployed as a standard infantry division.
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