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See British 12th (Eastern) Division for the division's First World War history. HISTORY The 12th Infantry Division was organised as a second line Territorial Army formation, a duplicate of the British 44th Infantry Division , and as such it contained mostly half trained units, some of whom had not even fired their rifles. In April 1940 the 12th Infantry, along with the 23rd Infantry and 46th Infantry Divisions , were sent as Pioneer units to France . They were all under equiped and did not have their signal, Royal Artillery or administrative units with them. When the German attacks began on May 10th 1940 only every third battalion had done a week's training. As a result the 12th Infantry suffered heavy casulties during the Battle Of France and the subsequent retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk . As a result of its high proportion of casulties (the 36th Infantry Brigade having been over run and destroyed on May 20th 1940 ) the 12th Infantry Division was disbanded on July 11th 1940 . STRUCTURE (In France 1940) 35th Infantry Brigade
36th Infantry Brigade
37th Infantry Brigade
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