The 1st (United Kingdom) Division is an active infantry division of the British Army. It has been formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and the present. In its original incarnation, as the 1st Division, it took part in the Peninsular War (part of the Coalition Wars of the Napoleonic Wars) before being disbanded in 1814, only to be re-formed the following year for service in the War of the Seventh Coalition and fought at the Battle of Waterloo. It remained active, as part of the British occuaption of France, until it was disbanded in 1818 when the British military withdrew. It was then raised as needed and served in the Crimean War, the Anglo-Zulu War, and the Second Boer War. In 1902, the British Army formed several permanent divisions, which included the 1st Division. It went on to fight in the First World War, made various deployments during the interwar period, and then took part in the Second World War (by then known as the 1st Infantry Division). In the post-war period, the division was deployed to Mandatory Palestine on internal security operations during the Jewish insurgency. In 1948, when all British troops left, the division transferred to Tripoli, Libya, which was then under occupation by Anglo-French forces following the conclusion of the Second World War. With rising tension in Egypt, the division was moved there to defend the Suez Canal. It remained until 1955 when it was withdrawn to the UK, as Britain removed its military from the area. The stay in the UK was short as there was little need for an additional divisional headquarters, and the division was disbanded on 30 June 1960. The following day, it was reformed as the 1st Division (by the renaming of the 5th Division) in Germany and served as part of the British Army of the Rhine and helped pioneer new tactics. On 1 April 1978, the name was again changed, and the division became the 1st Armoured Division. The 1st Armoured Division went on to fight in the Gulf War before returning to Germany. With the end of the Cold War, the British government released the Options for Change plan, which ultimately saw the division disbanded by the end of 1992. The division was revived the next year, as the 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division, when the 4th Armoured Division was redesignated. The division took part in the peacekeeping