TEXT: British 43rd Infantry Division 
          December, 1944 
  129th 
  Infantry 
  Brigade 
  x 12 
  x 1 
  x 2 
  x 12 
  By Greg Moore 
  gregpanzerblitz.com 
  December, 2008 
  204, 260, 553 
  Field 
  Companies 
  Royal 
  Engineers 
  x 9 
  x 10 
  x 1 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 3 
  x 4 
  x 4 
  94th 
  Field 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Artillery 
  x 3 
  x 2 
  x 1 
  x 1 
  130th 
  Infantry 
  Brigade 
  214th 
  Infantry 
  Brigade 
  x 4 
  x 4 
  112th 
  Field 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Artillery 
  x 4 
  x 4 
  179th 
  Field 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Artillery 
  x 12 
  x 1 
  x 2 
  x 12 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  x 2 
  x 1 
  x 1 
  x 12 
  x 1 
  x 2 
  x 12 
  Infantry 
  Battalion 
  x 3 
  x 3 
  x 2 
  x 1 
  x 1 
  Infantry Battalions 
  are 4th Battalion of 
  the Somerset Light 
  Infantry and 4th and 
  5th Battalions of the 
  Wiltshire Regiment. 
  Infantry Battalions 
  are 7th Battalion of 
  the Somerset Light 
  Infantry, the 1st Bat-
  talion of the Worces-
  tershire  Regiment 
  and the 5th Battalion 
  of the Duke of Corn-
  wall’s Light Infantry. 
  Infantry Battalions 
  are 7th Battalion of 
  the Hampshire Regi-
  ment and 4th and 
  5th Battalions of the 
  Dorsetshire Regi-
  ment. 
  
          The 43rd “Wessex” Infantry had been in action since shortly after the landings at Normandy and 
  had played a major role in Market-Garden in September. At the end of the operation,  the 4th “Dorsets” 
  Battalion made a successful crossing of the Rhine to act as a diversion while the remnants of the 1st Air-
  borne were withdrawn.  Unfortunately, when the Wessex Division withdrew, many of the 4th Dorsets 
  were themselves left behind and captured. 
          In the Ardennes Campaign, the 43rd was moved up to the Meuse as a reserve and never saw action 
  as the Germans never got that far. 
  59th 
  Anti-Tank 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Artillery 
  x 6 
  x 9 
  x 3 
  43rd 
  Reconnaissance 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Armoured 
  Corps  
  x 3 
  x 1 
  x 6 
  x 9 
  x 3 
  8th 
  Machine Gun 
  Battalion 
  Middlesex 
  Regiment 
  x 9 
  x 13 
  x 4 
  110th 
  Light 
  Anti-Aircraft 
  Regiment 
  Royal 
  Artillery 
  x 6 
  x 3 
  x 6 
  x 2 
  x 3 
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Panzer Leader & Panzer Blitz/1944 Battle of the Bulge/Brit43InfantryDec44.pdf