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Unit Guards Armoured Division 5th Guards Armoured Brigade 2nd (Tank) Battalion, Grenadier Guards 1st (Armoured) Battalion, Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards 32nd Guards Infantry Brigade 5th Battalion, Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards 7th Armoured Division Arrival 28 June 30 June ? ? ? ? 25 June ? ? ? 6/12 June 6/7 June 7 June 7 June 7 June ? Brigadier G.F. Johnson ? ? ? Major-General G. W. E. J. Erskine Commander Major-General A.H.S. Adair Brigadier N.W. Gwatkin ? ? Killed ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Wounded ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
22nd Armoured Brigade 1st Royal Tank Regiment 5th Royal Tank Regiment 4th County of London Yeomanry (replaced by the 5th Dragoon Guards in July 1944) 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards (replaced the 4th Yeomanry in July 1944) 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 131st Infantry Brigade 1/5th Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1/6th (Bermondsey) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 1/7th (Southwark) Battalion, The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) 11th Armoured Division 29th Armoured Brigade 23rd Hussars 3rd Royal Tank Regiment The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry
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7 June
8 June 8 June
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8 June
8? June
13 June 15 June ? ? ?
Major-General G.P.B. Roberts Brigadier C.B.C. Harvey ? Lieutenant-Colonel D.A.H. Silvertop ? [1]
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8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 159th Infantry Brigade 4th Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 3rd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment 1st Battalion, The Herefordshire Regiment 4th Armoured Brigade 44th Battalion Royal Tank Regiment Royal Scots Greys (The 2nd Dragoons) 3 County of London Yeomanry 2nd Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps 8th Armoured Brigade 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards 24th Lancers Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry) 12th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps 27th Armoured Brigade 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own) East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry The Staffordshire Yeomanry (Queen's Own Royal Regiment) 6th Airborne Division 3rd Parachute Brigade 8th (Midland Counties) Parachute Battalion 9th (Eastern and Home Counties) Parachute Battalion 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion 5th Parachute Brigade 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion
Brigadier J.G. Sandie Lieutenant-Colonel Miles ? ? Brigadier J.C. Currie Lieutenant-Colonel G.C. Hopkinson [1] [2]
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Lieutenant-Colonel A. G. J. Readman
Lieutenant-Colonel John Anderson Lieutenant-Colonel R.B. Littledale, DSO Brigadier Bernard Cracroft Lieutenant-Colonel R.G.G. Byron
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Major-General Richard Gale Brigadier James Hill Lieutenant-Colonel Alastair Pearson Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway
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Lieutenant-Colonel George Bradbrooke Brigadier Nigel Poett Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin Lieutenant-Colonel Johnny Johnson Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Luard Brigadier The Hon. Hugh Kindersley Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Stevens Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Roberts
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12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion 6th Airlanding Brigade 12th Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles British 3rd Infantry Division
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6 June 6 June
Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Carson Major-General T.G. Rennie (WIA 13 June), Major-General L.G. Whistler Brigadier E. E. Cass
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6 June
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Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. Goodwin Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Hutchinson ? ? ? ?
1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment 2nd Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York's Own) 1st Battalion, The South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers)
6 June 6 June
6 June
Lieutenant-Colonel R. P. H. Burbury (KIA 6 June), Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Bolster (KIA 28 July) Brigadier J. O. Cunningham ? ? Lieutenant-Colonel I. C. Harris Brigadier K. P. Smith Lieutenant-Colonel H.O.S. Herdon Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Bellamy Lieutenant-Colonel F. J. Maurice
9th Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers 2nd Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles 185th Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment 2nd Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division 44th Infantry Brigade 8th Battalion, The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 6th (The Border) Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers 6th Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers 46th Infantry Brigade 9th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 2nd Battalion, The Glasgow Highlanders, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 7th (Morayshire) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) 227th Infantry Brigade 10th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) 2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders 2nd Battalion]], The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division 129th Infantry Brigade 4th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 4th Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's) 5th Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh's)
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Brigadier N.D. Leslie ? ? ? Brigadier H. Essame ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
130th Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment 4th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment 5th Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment 214th Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment 5th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division 146th Infantry Brigade 4th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry The Hallamshire Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment 147th Infantry Brigade 6th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) 1st Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment 7th Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) 11th Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers 70th Infantry Brigade (left division in August) 10th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry 11th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry 1st Battalion, The Tyneside Scottish, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 56th Infantry Brigade (joined division in August) 2nd Battalion, The South Wales Borderers 2nd Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment 2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division 69th Infantry Brigade 5th Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment (Duke of York's Own) 6th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) 7th Battalion, The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) 151st Infantry Brigade 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
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Brigadier E. C. Pepper ? ? ? Major General D.A.H. Graham Brigadier F. Y. C. Cox Lieutenant-Colonel White
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6 June
6 June
Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Richardson
6 June 6 June
Brigadier R. H. Senior ?
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? Lieutenant-Colonel H. Woods Brigadier A. G. B. Stanier Bart Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. R. Nevill [4] Lieutenant-Colonel E. Norie Lieutenant-Colonel David Nelson-Smith Major-General D.C. Bullen-Smith (to 26 July), Major-General T.G. Rennie Brigadier D.H. Haugh ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
8th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry 9th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry 231st Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment 1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment 51st (Highland) Infantry Division
152nd Infantry Brigade 2nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) 5th (Caithness and Sutherland) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) 5th Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders 153rd Infantry Brigade 5th (Angus and Dundee) Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders 5th/7th Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders 154th Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 7th (Fife) Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 7th Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division 71st Infantry Brigade
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7 June 6 June
Brigadier H. Murray ?
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27 June 25 June
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1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry 1st Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 158th Infantry Brigade 4th Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers 6th Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers 7th (Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers 160th Infantry Brigade
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1/5th (Glamorganshire) Battalion, The Welch Regiment 4th Battalion, The Welch Regiment 2nd Battalion, The Monmouthshire Regiment 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division 176th Infantry Brigade 7th Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment 7th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment 6th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment 177th Infantry Brigade 5th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment 1/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment 2/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment 197th Infantry Brigade 1/7th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2/5th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers 5th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
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6 June 6 June
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8th (Irish) Battalion, The King's Regiment (Liverpool) 18th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry The Buckinghamshire Battalion 1st Special Service Brigade No. 3 Commando No. 4 Commando
6 June
? ? Brigadier Lord Lovat Lieutenant-Colonel P. (Peter) Young Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. P. (Robert William Palliser) Dawson Lieutenant-Colonel D. (Derek) Mills-Roberts ? Lieutenant-Colonel N. C. (Norman Charles) Ries Brigadier B. W. (Bernard William) Leicester Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. E. (Eric Charles Ernest)Palmer Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. (Campbell Richard) Hardy Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. (Cecil Farndale) Phillips Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. (James Louis) Moulton
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6 June
6 June
Canada
Unit 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division 4th Canadian Armoured Brigade 21st Armoured Regiment (The Governor General's Foot Guards) 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) 28th Armoured Regiment (The British Columbia Regiment) Arrival ? ? 24 July 1944 26 July 1944 28 July 1944 Commander Major General G. Kitching Brigadier Leslie Booth, DSO ? ? Lieutenant-Colonel Don Worthington, KIA 9 August 1944 ?
10th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Lincoln and Welland Regiment 1st Battalion, The Algonquin Regiment 1st Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) 2nd Canadian Infantry Division 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Canada 1st Battalion, The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry 1st Battalion, The Essex Scottish Regiment 5th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada 1st Battalion, Le Rgiment de Maisonneuve 1st Battalion, The Calgary Highlanders 6th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada 1st Battalion, The South Saskatchewan Regiment Canadian 3rd Infantry Division 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Regina Rifle Regiment 1st Battalion, The Royal Winnipeg Rifles 1st Battalion, The Canadian Scottish Regiment 8th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment 1st Battalion, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada 1st Battalion, Le Rgiment de la Chaudire 9th Canadian Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry of Canada 1st Battalion, The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders
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Major General C. Foulkes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Lieutenant Colonel D.G. MacLauchlan ? ? ? ? Major General R.F.L. Keller Brigadier Harry W. Foster Lieutenant-Colonel M. Matheson Lieutenant-Colonel M. Meldram Lieutenant-Colonel F.N. Cabeldu Brigadier Kenneth G. Blackadder Lieutenant-Colonel D.B. Buell Lieutenant-Colonel J.G. Spragge Lieutenant-Colonel J.B. Mathieu Brigadier D.G. Cunningham Lieutenant-Colonel F.M. Griffiths Lieutenant-Colonel F.M. Christiansen
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6 June 6 June 6 June 6 June 6 June Lieutenant-Colonel C. Petch ? Lieutenant-Colonel R.J. Colwell Lieutenant-Colonel R.E.A.Morton Lieutenant-Colonel M.B.K. Gordon
1st Battalion, The North Nova Scotia Highlanders 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade 6th Armoured Regiment (1st Hussars) 10th Armoured Regiment (The Fort Garry Horse) 27th Armoured Regiment (The Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment) Others 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion (attached to the British 6th Airborne Division)
6 June
HNoMS Rose HNoMS Nordkapp The Motorlaunches 128, 213 and 573
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Colonel. T. Majewski Lieutenant-Colonel Aleksander Stefanowicz Lieutenant-Colonel. S. Koszustki Lieutenant-Colonel J. Kaski Lieutenant-Colonel Wadysaw Zgorzelski Colonel Marian Wieroski Lieutenant-Colonel K. Complak Lieutenant-Colonel Aleksander Nowaczyski Lieutenant-Colonel Zygmunt Szydowski
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2nd Polish Armoured Regiment 24th Polish Lancers Regiment 10th Polish Dragoons Regiment (armoured infantry) 3rd Polish Infantry Brigade 1st Polish Highland Battalion 8th Polish Rifle Battalion
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Notes
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Chadwick (1970), The Royal Tank Regiment, p114 Blacklock (1971), The Royal Scots Greys: (The 2nd Dragoons), p100 Essame (1952), The 43rd Wessex Division at War, 1944-1945, p276 Delaforce (2004), Monty's Northern Legion, p67 Berg 1997: 136
References
Orders of Battle Second World War 1939-1945, Lieut-Col. H.F. Joslen, Reprinted by The London Stamp Exchange by permission of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, ISBN 0-948130-03-2. Berg, Ole F. (1997) (in Norwegian). I skjrgrden og p havet Marinens krig 8. april 1940 8. mai 1945. Oslo: Marinens krigsveteranforening. ISBN82-993545-2-8. OdB and history of units having taken part to the Falaise pocket battle at memorial-montormel.org (http:// montormel.evl.pl/?id=56) (en/fr) 6juin1944.com (http://www.6juin1944.com/en_index.html) (French/English) Canadiansoldiers.com (http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/allies/divsbritish.htm) Regiments.org (http://www.regiments.org) U.S. Army official site (http://www.army.mil/d-day/divisions/orderofbattle.html)
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