In military terms, 4th Division may refer to:
Infantry divisions
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4th (Quetta) Division
The 4th (Quetta) Division was an infantry division of the British Indian Army. It was formed by Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, General Kitchener while he was Commander-in-chief of British Raj, India. During World War I the division rema ...
, British Indian Army
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4th Alpine Division Cuneense, Italy
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4th Blackshirt Division (3 January), Italy
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4th Canadian Division
The 4th Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army. It is currently responsible for Canadian Army operations in the Canadian province of Ontario and is headquartered at Denison Armoury in Toronto. The division was first created as ...
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4th Division (Australia)
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4th Division (Estonia)
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4th Division (German Empire)
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4th Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
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4th Division (Iraq)
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4th Division (Japan)
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4th Division (New Zealand)
The 4th Division was one of three home defence divisions of the New Zealand Military Forces formed during World War II. The unit was established on 1 November 1941 and was responsible for protecting the southern part of New Zealand's North Island f ...
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4th Division (North Korea)
The 4th Infantry Division was a military formation of the Korean People's Army during the 20th Century.
History
Activated in late 1948, the 4th Infantry Division in the summer of 1950 consisted of the 5th Infantry Regiment (North Korea), 5th, 16 ...
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4th Division (Norway), participated in the
Norwegian Campaign
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4th Division (Reichswehr)
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4th Guards Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Guards Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Infantry Division (Belgium)
The 4th Infantry Division ''(4de Infanterie Divisie)'' was an infantry division of the Belgian Army that existed until the Battle of Belgium during the Second World War.
History
World War I
Before mobilization for the First World War in 191 ...
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Belgian Army order of battle (1914)
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4th Infantry Division (Greece)
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4th Infantry Division (India)
The 4th Infantry Division, also known as the Red Eagle Division, is an infantry division (military), division of the Indian Army. This division of the British Indian Army was formed in Egypt in 1939 during the Second World War. During the Secon ...
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4th Infantry Division (Philippines)
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4th Infantry Division (Poland)
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4th Infantry Division (Romania)
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4th Infantry Division (Russian Empire)
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4th Infantry Division (Thailand)
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4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 4th Infantry Division was a Regular army, regular infantry Division (military), division of the British Army with a very long history, seeing active service in the Peninsular War and Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo Campaign, the Crimean War, Cr ...
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4th Infantry Division (United States)
The 4th Infantry Division is a Division (military), division of the United States Army based at Fort Carson, Colorado. It is composed of a division headquarters battalion, three brigade combat teams (two Stryker and one armor), a combat avia ...
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4th Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)
The 4th Infantry Division, designated ''4.Infanterie-Division'' in German was one of the first divisions raised and served during part of World War II. In 1940 it was reorganized as 14th Panzer Division.
History
The 4th Infantry Division wa ...
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4th Infantry Division Littorio
The Italian 4th Division "Littorio" (Lictor) a regular Infantry Division which was fully motorized. It was formed as one of four divisions for the Corpo Truppe Volontarie during the Spanish Civil War by the Regio Esercito. On its return to Italy ...
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4th Infantry Division Livorno
Fourth or the fourth may refer to:
* the ordinal form of the number 4
* ''Fourth'' (album), by Soft Machine, 1971
* Fourth (angle), an ancient astronomical subdivision
* Fourth (music), a musical interval
* ''The Fourth'', a 1972 Soviet drama
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4th Luftwaffe Field Division (Germany)
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4th Marine Division (United States)
The 4th Marine Division is a United States Marine Corps Reserve, reserve division (military), division in the United States Marine Corps. It was raised in 1943 for service during World War II, and subsequently fought in the Pacific against the J ...
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4th Motor Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Motorized Infantry Division (People's Republic of China)
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4th Mountain Division (Wehrmacht)
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4th Panzergrenadier Division (Bundeswehr)
The 4th Panzergrenadier Division (''4. Panzergrenadierdivision'') was a West Germany, West German mechanized infantry formation (military), formation. It was part of the II Corps (Bundeswehr), II Corps of the Bundeswehr, which also incorporated in ...
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4th Rifle Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Royal Bavarian Division
The 4th Royal Bavarian Division was a unit of the Royal Bavarian Army which served alongside the Prussian Army as part of the Imperial German Army. The division was formed on November 27, 1815, as an Infantry Division of the Würzburg General Com ...
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4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division
The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division) or SS Division Polizei was one of the thirty-eight divisions fielded as part of the Waffen-SS during World War II.
Formation
The division was formed in October ...
, Germany
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Finnish 4th Division (Winter War)
Cavalry divisions
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4th Light Cavalry Division (France)
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4th Cavalry Division (German Empire)
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9th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht), originally the 4th Light Division
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1st Indian Cavalry Division, designated 4th Cavalry Division from November 1916 to March 1918 in France in World War I
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4th Cavalry Division (India), British Indian Army
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4th Cavalry Division (Russian Empire)
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4th Mounted Division, United Kingdom
Armoured divisions
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4th Canadian Division
The 4th Canadian Division is a formation of the Canadian Army. It is currently responsible for Canadian Army operations in the Canadian province of Ontario and is headquartered at Denison Armoury in Toronto. The division was first created as ...
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4th Armoured Division (Egypt)
The 4th Armoured Division is a military formation of the Egyptian Army. Its most notable service was in the Arab wars with the Israelis in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1967 Six-Day War, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The 4th Armoured Division w ...
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4th Armoured Division (France, 1964)
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4th Armored Division (France, 1940)
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4th Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)
The 4th Panzer Division () was an Armored warfare, armored division (military unit), division in the German Army (1935–1945), Army of Nazi Germany.
In World War II, it participated in the Polish September Campaign, 1939 invasion of Poland, ...
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4th Tank Division (Imperial Japanese Army)
The , was one of four armored divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II.
History
The 4th Tank Division was raised on July 6, 1944 in Chiba, near Tokyo. It lacked both infantry and self-propelled gun regiments. Similar to the Nazi G ...
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4th Guards Tank Division, Russia
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4th Armoured Division (Syria)
The 4th Armoured Division () was an elite formation (military), formation of the Syrian Arab Army whose primary purpose was to defend Ba'athist Syria from internal and external threats. The division was considered one of the most combat-ready for ...
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4th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)
The 4th Infantry Division was a Regular army, regular infantry Division (military), division of the British Army with a very long history, seeing active service in the Peninsular War and Battle of Waterloo, Waterloo Campaign, the Crimean War, Cr ...
- an armoured division in the 1980s
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4th Armored Division (United States)
The 4th Armored Division was an armored division of the United States Army that earned distinction while spearheading General Patton's Third Army in the European theater of World War II.
The 4th Armored Division, unlike most other U.S. arm ...
Aviation divisions
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4th Fighter Aviation Division (People's Liberation Army Air Force), China
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4th Air Division (Germany)
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4th Fighter Division (Germany)
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4th Air Division, United States
Other divisions
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4th Parachute Division (Germany)
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4th Guards Airborne Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (Soviet Union)
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4th Army Division, Sweden
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4th Airborne Division, United Kingdom deception formation
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4th Anti-Aircraft Division (United Kingdom)
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