5 Infantry Division (UK) withdraw from France

5 Infantry Division (UK)

15th Brigade joined the Norwegian Campaign and did not rejoin the Division until July 1940.[11] The 5th Infantry Division saw action in the Battle of France and Belgium in 1940 including the Battle of Arras on 21 May 1940 and the Ypres-Comines Canal from 26 to 28 May 1940, and then was withdrawn, along with the rest of the British Expeditionary Force, from Dunkirk.[11] After this it served and travelled in so many regions of the world that they became known as the Globe Trotters.