Wiki Wandering: Military Trivia

So I "bumped" the AR15.com Washington Hometown Veteran's thread back to the top, something one of us does every three or four weeks, since the previous vets' thread died and wound up in the archives, searchable by Team Members, but not postable.

Last time I did this, I posted a graphic of the Second Infantry Division patch, to keep the post from being a complete waste; this time, I used the Seventh Division patch. I linked to the 7th ID patch from the Wikipedia article on the Bayonet Division.

Typing in "Seventh Division" as a search term got me links to many different Seventh Divisions; reading the various links, I learned:

• Elements of the Australian Seventh Division were part of the defense of Tobruk, while the rest spearheaded the invasion of Syria, where they fought Vichy French forces; Moshe Dayan was attached to the Seventh Australian as an interpreter, where he lost his eye to sniper fire.
• The Seventh Canadian Division was composed largely of conscripts; under Canadian law, conscripts could not be sent overseas, so the Seventh could only be used for Home Defense.
• Early in WWII, the British decided that it would be confusing to have both a Seventh Infantry Division, and a Seventh Armored (excuse me, "Armoured") Division, so the Seventh Infantry Division was re-designated the Sixth Infantry. (Personally, I always wondered why the US Army thought having a First Infantry Division, a First Armored Division, and a First Cavalry Division, was a good idea. Maybe it's psyops...)
• The Seventh Indian Infantry Division was trained for desert warfare and sent to Burma. (Paralleling the experience of the Seventh US Infantry Division, trained for North Africa and sent to the Aleutians.) It is now part of the Pakistani Army.