Order of Battle
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have been completed
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1940
British Expeditionary Force
Royal Air Force Advanced Air Striking Force (AASF)
48th Infantry Division
53 (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment
50th (Northumbrian) Motor Infantry Division
(Comprising of 150 Infantry Brigade, 151 Infantry Brigade, 25 Infantry Brigade and Divisional Troops)
Commanding Officer: Major-General Giffard Le Quesne Martel
150 Infantry Brigade
151 Infantry Brigade
25 Infantry Brigade
Divisional Troops
Headquarters Line of Communications British Expeditionary Force
51 Highland Division
D-Day, Tuesday 6th June 1944
21st Army Group
(comprising of General Headquarters and Army Troops, First American Army and Second British Army)
General Headquarters (GHQ) and Army Troops
79th Armoured Division (in support of Second Army)
30 Armoured Brigade
1 Assault Brigade, Royal Engineers
- 77 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 79 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 80 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 26 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
6 Assault Regiment (no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
- 81 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 82 Assault Squdron, Royal Engineers, Commanding - Major Harold George Elphinstone
- 82 Assault Squdron, Royal Engineers
- 87 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 284 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
42 Assault Regiment(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
- 16 Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
- 617 Squadron, Royal Engineers
- 222 Assault Squdron, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
- 557 Assault Squdron, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
Independant Brigades
4 Armoured Brigade
Royal Scots Greys
ARMIES, CORPS and Divisions
First United States Army
(comprising of VII United StatesCorps and V United States Corps)
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-General Omar Nelson Bradley
VII Uited States Corps
Commanding Officer: Major-General Joseph 'Lightning Joe' Lawton Collins
V United States Corps
Commanding Officer: Major-General Leonard Townsend Gerow
British Second Army
(comprising of British I Corps and British XXX Corps)
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Dempsey
I British Corps, Headquarters
(undertaking adminstration planning for land an sea operations comprising of 6th Airborne Division [seaborne contingent], 3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division and Corps Troops)
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-General John Tredinnick Crocker
I British Airborne Corps, Headquarters
(undertaking administrative planning for airborne operations for 6th Airborne Division, including Glider Pilot Regiment)
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning
6th Airborne Division, Army Air Corps
(Comprising of Glider Pilot Regiment, 3 Parachute Brigade, 5 Parachute Brigade,
6 Airlanding Brigade and Divisional Troops)
Commanding Officer: Major-General Richard Nelson 'Windy' Gale
(In June 1944 1 Special Service Brigade and 4 Special Service Brigade; and in August 1944,
the Piron Brigade (1st Belgian Brigade) and Princess Irene Brigade (Royal Netherlands),
would come under the command of the 6th Airbone Division)
3 Parachute Brigade
5 Parachute Brigade
6 Airlanding Brigade
6 Airlanding Brigade Headquarters and Defence Platoon(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
Divisional Troops
6 Airborne Division Postal Unit, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
(1 fatal casualty attached to 7 Parachute Battalion, 1 fatal casualty attached to 13 Parachute Battalion - 1 fatal casualty to add, died of wounds in UK)
9 Airlanding Light Aid Detachment, Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
(1 fatal casualty attached to 6 Airborne Division Headquarters)
317 Airborne Field Security Section, Intelligence Corps(no recorded fatal casualties in Normandy)
1 Special Service Brigade
4 Special Service Brigade
Piron Brigade (1st Belgian Brigade)
Princess Irene Brigade (Royal Netherlands)
Princess Irene Brigade (Royal Netherlands)(no identified fatal casualties in Normandy)
3rd Infantry Division (SWORD Beach)
(Comprising of 8 Infantry Brigade, 9 Infantry Brigade and 185 Infantry Brigade,
Divisional Troops with 27 Armoured Brigade and 1 Special Service Brigade under its command)
8 Infantry Brigade
1 Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
1 Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
9 Infantry Brigade
2 Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles
185 Infantry Brigade
2 Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1 Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
2 Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry
27 Armoured Brigade
Divisional Troops
51st (Highland) Division (SWORD Beach)
(Comprising of 152 Infantry Brigade, 153 Infantry Brigade and 154 Infantry Brigade and Divisional Troops)
152 Infantry Brigade
2 Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
5 Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
5 Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
153 Infantry Brigade
5 Battalion, Black Watch
1 Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
5/7 Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
154 Infantry Brigade
1 Battalion, Black Watch
7 Battalion Black Watch
7 Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Divisional Troops
1/7 Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
2 Derbyshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps, (divisional reconnaissance regiment)
3rd Canadian Infantry Division (JUNO Beach)
(Comprising of 7 Canadian Infantry Brigade, 9 Canadian Infantry Brigade, 9 Canadian Infantry Brigade,
Divisional Troops and with 2 Canadian Armoured Brigade and 4 Special Service Brigade under its command)
Commanding Officer: Major-General R. F. L. Keller (to 8th August 1944)
Major-General D.C.Spry (from 18th August 1944)
7 Canadian Infantry Brigade
8 Canadian Infantry Brigade
9 Canadain Infantry Brigade
2 Canadian Armoured Brigade
4 Special Service Brigade
Divisional Troops
3 Canadian Divisional Signals
Corps Troops
Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
- Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, Headquarters Squadron
- Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, B Squadron
- Inns of Court Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, C Squadron
62 Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
102 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
9 Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery
I Corps Troops Engineers, Royal Engineers(no identified fatal Casualties in Normandy)
I Corps Troop Workshop, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
I Corps Signals, Royal Signals
XXX British Corps
(Comprising of 50 [Northumbrian] Infantry Division, with 8 Armoured Brigade
and 56 Infantry Brigade under its command, and Corps Troops)
7th Armoured Division and 49th West Riding Division would land after 6th June 1944
Commanding Officer: Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall
50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division (GOLD Beach)
(Comprising of 69 Infantry Brigade, 151 Infantry Brigade, 231 Infantry Brigade and Divisional Troops)
Commanding Officer: Major-General D a H Graham (to 16th October 1944)
69 Infantry Brigade
151 Infantry Brigade
231 Infantry Brigade
8 Armoured Brigade
56 Infantry Brigade
Divisional Troops
Corps Troops
First Canadian Army
General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar
First Canadian Army Headquarters became operational on the 23rd July 1944
