Order of battle for 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) supporting arms to division control, with an increase in all types of artillery. The 7th Armoured Division initially had two Armoured Brigades, of different organizations. Organization VII introduced little change, the attachment of a machine gun company to the infantry brigade, and the replacement of armoured cars with tanks in the reconnaissance regiment. Organization VIII, consolidated the continuing changes in formations, increasing the reconnaissance regiment strength, moving the machine gun company to division troops and adding a bridging troop of engineers. These other brigades served with the Division. Order of battle for 7th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) This article supplements
7th Infantry Division (Syria) 7th Infantry Division (Syria) The 7th Mechanized Division is a division of the Syrian Arab Army, currently engaged in the Syrian Civil War. The division, formed as 7th Infantry Division, was a key component of the Syrian attack force in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, involved in some of the heaviest fighting in the Golan Heights, especially in the aptly named 'Valley of Tears'. The division, with its attached armoured brigade, lost a great number of tanks when trying on many accounts to rush the Israeli defenses. Omar Abrash was serving as the division commander. Although Syrian division had a