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In the First World War the British Empire made large use of bicycle infantry, with the founding of two entire divisions based on bicycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Mounted_Division#1st_Cyclist_Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_Mounted_Division#The_Cyclist_Division

In the Second World War, the British Army made smaller use of bicycles, mostly for parachute or glider strikes behind enemy lines, such as D-Day pictured below.





But, what if bicycle infantry is made a much larger focus of the 1930s British and Imperial war doctrine? Would a more mobile British and CW army have had better luck in Malaya, for example? Are there other examples where the added mobility of the bicycle would have helped the British?

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