Second Division - British Army - York, Great Britain.
N 53° 57.734 W 001° 04.995
30U E 625748 N 5981020
Second Division - An Infantry and Combined Arms division of the British Army. Formed in 1809, disbanded on 1st April 2012.
The memorial was created in 1987 using the remains of the Bishop of York's medieval Palace, York, UK.
York, Great Britain.
Waymark Code: WMKA9X
Location: North East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/08/2014
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The Second division is associated with York. The divisional insignia, the Crossed Keys of Saint Peter, are part of the coat of arms of the Diocese of York, and York Minster.
"The 2nd Division was a regular division of the British army, with a long history. Its existence as a permanently embodied formation dated from 1809, when it was established by Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley (later to become the Duke of Wellington), as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, for service in the Peninsular War. (Prior to this, it was common for formations with the same number to be temporarily established for a single campaign and disbanded immediately afterwards; divisions remained a permanent part of the British Army's structure only after the Napoleonic Wars)." Text Source: (
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