The 38th Division was raised as the 43rd Division of Herbert Kitchener’s New Army in 1914. It was originally intended to form part of a 50,000-strong Welsh Army Corps that had been championed by David Lloyd George. In 1918, during the German Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied Hundred Days Offensive, the division attacked several fortified German positions. In 1939, following the reemergence of Germany and its occupation of Czechoslovakia, the British army increased the number of divisions within the Territorial Army. The division was never deployed overseas as a division, having been restricted to home defence duties around the United Kingdom. In 1944, it was disbanded and its units were either deployed or broken up to reinforce the 21st Army Group in
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The 38th Division was raised as the 43rd Division of Herbert Kitchener’s New Army in 1914. It was originally intended to form part of a 50,000-strong Welsh Army Corps that had been championed by David Lloyd George. The assignment of Welsh recruits to other formations meant that this concept was never realised. In 1918, during the German Spring Offensive and the subsequent Allied Hundred Days Offensive, the division attacked several fortified German positions. It crossed the Ancre River, broke through the Hindenburg Line and German positions on the River Selle, and ended the war on the Belgian frontier. In 1939, following the reemergence of Germany and its occupation of Czechoslovakia, the British army increased the number of divisions within the Territorial Army by duplicating existing units. The division was never deployed overseas as a division, having been restricted to home defence duties around the United Kingdom. In 1944, it was disbanded and its units were either deployed or broken up to reinforce the 21st Army Group in Normandy during Operation Overlord. The 38th Infantry Division was recreated on 1 September 1944 as a training formation that took over the role previously occupied by the 80th Infantry Division. It ceased to exist by March 1919 and was stood down at the end of the Second World War. It has been used as the basis for a number of military documentaries, including The Battle of the Somme and The Second Battle of Ypres.
It is also used as a source of inspiration for the film The Hobbit: The Desolation of the Planet of the Apes, starring Tom Hanks and the late Sir Tom Courtenay. The film is based on a play by David Walliams, who was a member of the New Army and served in the First World War with Kitchener. The play was based on the novel by the same name, with a different cast and a different stage of the war. The book is published by Simon & Schuster and is available in hardback and softback. The first edition of the book was published in October 2013. The second edition was released in October 2014. The third and fourth editions were published in November 2014 and January 2015. The fourth and fifth editions were released in May 2015 and March 2015 respectively. The fifth and sixth volumes of the first volume of the second volume of The Second Book of The New Army, published by the University of London Press, are available in instalments of £1.99 each. The sixth and seventh volumes of The First New Army are published in September 2015 and October 2016. The seventh and eighth volumes are released in November 2015. They are the second and third volumes of The Second New Army of the First Book of the First War of 1914-1918, and the fourth and the seventh of The Second War of 1918-1919. The eighth and final volume of The Second Book of the First World War of 1918 is published in March and November 1919, and is entitled The Battle of Pilckem Ridge.
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