Initially the groupe comprised a group of French fighter pilots sent to aid Soviet forces on the Eastern Front at the suggestion of Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French Forces, who felt it important that French servicemen serve on all fronts in the war.

Initially the family comprised ten fonts, but a condensed version was added in 2004.

Initially, the Far Eastern Republic comprised only the area around Verkhne-Udinsk, but during the Summer of 1920, the Soviet government of the Amur territory agreed to join.

Initially the Eritrean Ascaris comprised only infantry battalions, although Eritrean cavalry squadrons ( Penne di Falco ) and mountain artillery batteries were subsequently raised.

Initially it comprised four colleges: Theology, Medicine, Philosophy and Law, later also natural sciences.

Initially KOP comprised 6 brigades and 5 regiments, each guarding part of the borders with the Soviet Union.

Initially it comprised only Tatars and Bashkirs in the former Kazan and Ufa governorates, although other, non-Muslim and non-Turkic, nations of the area joined in a few months later: the Komi peoples, Mari, and Udmurts, who speak Uralic languages and practice either Orthodox Christianity or shamanism.

Initially, the land was sold for farming and comprised the land around Cabbage Tree Creek, bordered by what is now Zillmere Road, Roghan Road, Bridgeman Road and the northerly continuation of Kirby Road, covering mostly what is now Aspley, Carseldine and Fitzgibbon.

Initially the Academy comprised three departments: liberal arts, law, and medicine, and had seven faculty positions for professors.

Initially it comprised the former Piedmontese provinces of Alessandria, Casale, Tortona, Voghera and Bobbio.

Initially, Northern Ireland comprised the north-east six counties of Ulster, while the remaining twenty-six formed the Free State: on receiving the report of the Boundary Commission, the Heads of Government declined to make any change to this arrangement.

Initially, the London business comprised the accounts and goodwill transferred to it from an old family friend, Nathaniel Paice, a London merchant who was retiring, but also much business came from John and Charles Baring & Co. and other Exeter merchants who required a London agent.

Initially, the members of the Regiment comprised Johnson's refugee retainers from his estates in the Mohawk Valley, but the steady stream of loyalist refugees fleeing to Montreal provided a ready source of recruits for the King's Royal Yorkers.

Initially, he served in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry before joining the Parachute Regiment and being assigned to the 7th ( Light Infantry ) Parachute Battalion as part of the British 6th Airborne Division.

Initially based at Tidworth, the battalion moved to Bad Fallingbostel, Germany in August 2009, where it is now permanently based as part of 7th Armoured Brigade ( The Desert Rats ).

Initially, after the first Muslim conquests in the 7th century, kharaj usually denoted a lump-sum duty levied upon the conquered provinces and collected by the officials of the former Byzantine and Sassanid empires or, more broadly, any kind of tax levied by Muslim conquerors on their non-Muslim subjects, dhimmis.

Initially, the United States Army Air Corps 7th Ferrying Group, Ferrying Command ( later Air Transport Command ) at Great Falls Army Airfield was ordered to organize and develop an air route to send assistance to Russia though northwestern Canada, across Alaska and the Bering Sea to Siberia, and eventually over to the Eastern Front.

Initially employed piecemeal, the entire division was committed as a unit on 24 August 1950, relieving the 24th Infantry Division at the Naktong River Line.

Initially posted to 77th Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion in Manhattan Beach, California, Hackworth was eventually assigned to Germany, initially in staff roles but returning to infantry in the early 1960s as an Infantry company commander under Colonel Glover S. Johns, and learned a great deal of the skills that were needed to be an effective officer from this veteran.

Initially the KAR deployed as the 1st East African Infantry Brigade and the 2nd East African Infantry Brigade.

Initially known as Tank, Infantry Mark III *** It used some Canadian and American mechanical parts and a GMC diesel engine.

Initially, this had only three divisions: 1st Parachute Division facing the Poles, 71st Infantry Division ( 71.

Initially, the KAR deployed as the 1st East African Infantry Brigade and the 2nd East African Infantry Brigade.

Initially the KAR deployed as the 1st East African Infantry Brigade and the 2nd East African Infantry Brigade.

Initially as the 2nd London Division, but was redesignated in November 1940 as the 47th ( London ) Infantry Division.

Initially five infantry divisions were active, including the newly renamed Infantry Division Friuli.

Initially, this was known as the Extra Goorkha Regiment, before being numbered as the 19th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry.

Initially located in the salient were the 10th Panzer Division, Waffen-SS Division Das Reich, 268th Infantry Division, and the 202nd Assault Gun Battalion among others ;

Initially only limited Australian forces were available to oppose them, and after making rapid progress the Japanese South Seas Force under Major General Tomitaro Horii clashed with under strength Australian forces from the Papuan Infantry Battalion and the Australian 39th Battalion on 23 July at Awala, forcing them back to Kokoda.

Initially he served in the 106th Infantry Regiment, completing NCO training in Saratov.

Initially a Coastal Division and a Northern Frontier District Division were planned.

Initially in reserve to the main breakout from Anzac by units of the New Zealand and Australian Division, the 38th and 39th Brigades were sent in as reinforcements as the attack stalled.

Initially the 49th Air Division functioned as the intermediate-level command authority for USAFE's wings in the UK, no operational combat groups were attached.

Initially, each brigade of the Guards Division had a machine gun company attached.

Initially Hope was shown the regular reports created by the Intelligence Division about German ship whereabouts so that he might correct them.

Initially, the BAA teams were aligned into two divisions, the Eastern Division and the Western Division.

Initially Awadhesh Pratap Singh became the Chief Minister of the Baghelkhand Division and Kamta Prasad Saxena became the Chief Minister of the Bundelkhand Division but soon Awadhesh Pratap Singh became the Chief Minister of the whole state.

Initially the brigades were arranged by combining the two extra infantry brigades into the " New Zealand Division " and the mounted brigades into the " Mounted Division " but this was deemed unsatisfactory.

Initially, a Coastal Division and a Northern Frontier District Division were planned.

Initially a new experimental unit was formed at Fort Benning, Georgia, the 11th Air Assault Division on 11 February 1963, combining light infantry with integral helicopter transport and air support.

Initially in private practice, he soon was appointed the Assistant Attorney General of the State of Washington, in the Civil Rights Division and served in that capacity from 1957-1962.

Initially a Coastal Division and a Northern Frontier District Division were planned.