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The 6th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army, created on 12 September 1940 during World War II. The unit was initially supplied with Matilda and Valentine Tanks, which were replaced by Crusader tanks and then finally with the M4 Sherman Tank. It participated in the Operation Torch assault landings in Algeria and Morocco in November 1942, and saw its first action as part of V Corps of the British First Army in the Tunisia Campaign.

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rdfs:comment	The 6th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army, created on 12 September 1940 during World War II. The unit was initially supplied with Matilda and Valentine Tanks, which were replaced by Crusader tanks and then finally with the M4 Sherman Tank. It participated in the Operation Torch assault landings in Algeria and Morocco in November 1942, and saw its first action as part of V Corps of the British First Army in the Tunisia Campaign.
foaf:name	6th Armoured Division
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active years end year	1945-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
active years start year	1940-01-01(xsd:dateTime)
battle	Italian Campaign North African Campaign
command structure	First Army Eighth Army
country	United Kingdom
military unit size	343 tanksref\|63 light tanks, 205 medium tanks, 24 close support tanks, 25 anti-aircraft tanks, and 8 artillery observation tanks.\|group=nbref\|These two figures are the war establishment, the on-paper strength, of the division for 1944/1945; for information on how the division size changed over the war please see British Army during the Second World War and British Armoured formations of World War II.\|group=nb 14,964 men Second World War
notable commander	Herbert Lumsden Crocker, John Tredinnick Keightley, Charles
thumbnail	http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/6th_Armoured_Division_flash.svg?width=300
type	dbpedia:Armoured_warfare
is command structure of	6th Support Group 'M' Brigade

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