Brigades indépendantes britanniques le Jour J
Ordre de bataille – 6 juin 1944 – Bataille de Normandie
11th Armoured Vehicles Regiment
73rd Anti-Tank Regiment
27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
4th Cartography RA Regiment
30th Engineering Corps
30th Transmission Corps
– 56th Infantry Brigade : Brigadier E. C. Pepper
2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers Regiment : Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Craddock
2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment : Lieutenant-Colonel D. W. Biddle
2nd Battalion Essex Regiment : Lieutenant-Colonel J. F. Higson, remplacé par le Major Elliott le 12 juin 1944
A Company
B Company : Captain Eric Watson, blessé le 11 juin 1944
C Company
C Company
– 8th Armoured Brigade : Brigadier Bernard Cracroft
4th/7th Dragoon Guards : Lieutenant-Colonel Rodney Byron
Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry : Lieutenant-Colonel John Anderson
24th Lancers : Lieutenant-Colonel W. A. C. Anderson
8th Armoured Brigade Workshops R.E.M.E (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) : Major R.A. Arbuckle
12th Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
147th Field Regiment (Essex Yeomanry) Royal Artillery
168 (City of London) Light Field Ambulance
552 Company Royal Army Service Corps
265 Forward Delivery Squadron
– 27th Armoured Brigade : Brigadier G. E. Prior-Palmer
13th/18th Royal Hussars : Lieutenant-Colonel Harrap
– A Squadron
– B Squadron
– C Squadron
1st East Riding Yeomanry
The Staffordshire Yeomanry : Lieutenant-Colonel J. A. Eadie
– A Squadron : Major M. A. Spencer-Nairn
– B Squadron : Major G. J. W. Turner
– C Squadron : Major P. B. Griffin
3rd Recce Regiment (Northumberland Fusiliers)
2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment
