48th Infantry Division

Forty-eighth Infantry Division
Nickname The Black Watch Division[1]
Affiliation Star League
Parent Command LXVIII Corps

The Forty-eighth Infantry Division was a part of the Star League Defense Force Regular Army.

History[edit]

In 2764, the unit was assigned, as a part of the LXVIII Corps, Eighteenth Army, of the Periphery Military Region, but was moved to an undisclosed area of the Periphery to take part in the Periphery Uprising by 2765.[2] The Forty-eighth suffered heavy losses in the Hegemony Campaign, and was disbanded in 2784.[2]

Officers[edit]

Rank Name Command
Commanding Officers of the Forty-eighth Infantry Division
Major General Kiarra Pavesi 2764[1]

Tactics[edit]

Unknown.

Composition History[edit]

As an SLDF Infantry division the Forty-eighth would have been formed from two brigades of grunt infantry and a brigade of light BattleMech regiments.[3]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Field Manual: SLDF, p. 217
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Star League, p. 156: "Eighteenth"
  3. The Star League, p. 133

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