59th Jump Infantry Division

59th Jump Infantry Division
Nickname The King's Own Jump Troops[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command XXXVI Corps

The Fifty-ninth Jump Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army. Bearing the nickname "The King's Own Jump Troops", most of the 59th's units were drawn from the old British army. By convention, any member of the Duke of England's family that enlisted in the SLDF was assigned to the 59th Jump.[1]

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the XXXVI Corps, Sixteenth Army, to District 3 of the Draconis Combine Military Region but was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery in 2765 as part of the redeployment effort to fight the Periphery Uprising.[2] The 59th survived the war and the Hegemony Campaign, and followed General Aleksandr Kerensky on the Exodus in 2784.[2]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the 59th Jump Infantry Division
Major General Neville Ponsonby 2764[1]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Jump Infantry division the 59th would have been formed from two brigades of Jump Troops, one brigade of 'Mech regiments and two Ground Aero Wings.[3]

2764[edit]

Among the regiments assigned to the 59th were a number of units descended the old Terran kingdom of Britain:

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 193
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Star League, p. 149, "Sixteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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