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HQ South District
1st Sub Area (Cherbourg)
2nd Sub Area (Le Mans)
Rennes Sub area
Rouen Sub Area
1st Medical Base Sub area (Dieppe)
2nd Base Sub Area (Nantes)
3rd Base Sub Area (Havre)
4th Base Sub Area (Boulogne)
5th Base Sub Area (Marseilles)
In April 1940 the following Divisions were sent to France as labour troops on the L of C. 18,347 Officers and men in 12th, 23rd and 46th Divisions.
In May 1940 these three untrained Divisions were thrown in against the advancing German Army to help extricate Lord Gort's first-line Divisions.
In the process these three despised Divisions, without their AA and artillery, delayed the Panzers but were destroyed in the process.
The vast majority were killed, wounded or captured. Lord Gort's 1st line Divisions for the most part escaped, the 12th, 23rd and 46th for the most part did not.
A good book about these three Divisions is
The Day of Reckoning by Donald Edgar ISBN 0 906549 35 3
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MalcolmII
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