NAM.2007-12-6-377

One of 58 photographs of groups of officers belonging to the 3rd Division, including various divisional commanders such as FM Viscount B L Montgomery, FM Lord Carver, Gen L G Whistler, Maj Gen Michael Walsh, Maj Gen Richard Worsley and Lt Gen T D H McMeekin. Also includes visits by the then CIGS FM Sir Francis Festing and General Robert Bray. From a collection of photographs assembled for use in Col Robin McNish’s ‘Iron Division - The History of the 3rd Division’, depicting the 3rd Division, 1918-1977. After the Suez Crisis of 1956 showed the need for more rapid mobilisation, the 3rd Division pioneered the concept of air portability in the late 1950s and 1960s.