20th (Light) Division

20th (Light) Division
20th (Light) Division sign, used on notice boards and signs.
ActiveSeptember 1914 – May 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
EngagementsWorld War I
Battle of Loos
Battle of Mont Sorrel
Battle of the Somme (1916)
Battle of Guillemont
Battle of Flers-Courcelette
Battle of Morval
Battle of Le Transloy
Third Battle of Ypres
Battle of Langemarck (1917)
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
First Battle of the Somme (1918)

The 20th (Light) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, part of Kitchener's Army, raised in the First World War. The division was formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division landed in France July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front. The division was disbanded after the end of the war in early 1919.