3rd (GB) Infantry Division
Battle order – June 1st, 1944 – Battle of Normandy
Commander: Major General Tom G. Rennie
3rd (Royal Northumberland Fusiliers) Reconnaissance Regiment
8th Infantry Brigade: Brigadier E. E. Cass
1st Battalion Suffolk Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel R. E. Goodwin
A Company : Captain Ryley, killed on June 6th, 1944
B Company: Major Mac Caffrey
C Company: Major Charles Boycott
D Company: Major Philip Papillon, killed on June 28th, 1944
2nd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel G. F. Hutchinson, wounded on June 6th, 1944
A Company: Major C. K. King
D Company: Major Barber, killed on June 6th, 1944
1st Battalion South Lancashire Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel R. P. H. Burbury, killed on June 6th, 1944
A Company: Major Harward, killed on June 6th, 1944, replaced by Lieutenant R. W. Pearce, wounded on June 6th, 1944
B Company: Major Harrison, killed on June 6th, 1944, replaced by Lieutenant B. Walker, killed on June 6th, 1944
C Company: Major Eric Johnson
D Company: Major J. Egglinton, wounded on June 6th, 1944
9th Infantry Brigade: Brigadier J.G. Cunningham, wounded on June 6th, 1944
2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers Regiment
2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel I. C. Harris
185th Infantry Brigade: Brigadier K. P. Smith
2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel H. O. S. Herdon
1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel R. H. Bellamy
A Company
B Company: Major Eric Cooper-Key
C Company
D Company: Major Papillon
2nd Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel F. J. Maurice
Hq Company: Captain C. Brooke-Smith
Support Company: Captain T. H. Read
W Company: Major A. F. Slatter
X Company: Major G. M. Thornycroft
Y Company: Major P. C. Steel, killed on June 6th, 1944
Z Company: Major P. H. Wheelock
Divisional Artillery
7th Field Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel N. P. H. Tapp
33rd Field Regiment
76th Field Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Mervyn Foster
20th Anti-Tank Regiment
92nd Light Anti-Aircraft : Btry 318
Divisional Engineers: Colonel “Tiger” Urquhart
15th Field Park Company: Major H. C. Dykes
17th Field Company: Major Willison
246th Field Company: Major R. M. S. Maude
253rd Field Company: Major J. P. Asher
Divisional R.A.S.C (Royal Army Service Corps)
23rd Company
47th Company
48th Company
172nd Divisional Company
Divisional R.E.M.E. (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)
8th Infantry Brigade Workshop
9th Infantry Brigade Workshop
185th Infantry Brigade Workshop
22nd Dragoons
5th Assault Regiment RE: Lieutenant Colonel A. D. B. Cocks, killed on June 6th, 1944
629th Field Squadron
5th Armoured Inf. Company: Major Freeman
5th Beach Group
5th Battalion King’s Regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Broad, killed on June 6th, 1944, replaced by Major P. C. Wintreton until June 12th, 1944, replaced by Major G. D. Wreford-Browne)
1st Special Service Brigade: Brigadier General Lord Lovat
No.3 Commando: Lieutenant Colonel Peter Young
No.4 Commando: Lieutenant Colonel R. W. P. Dawson
1er Bataillon Fusiliers Marins Commando: Capitaine de Corvette Philippe Kieffer
No.6 Commando: Lieutenant Colonel Derek Mills-Roberts
No.45 Royal Marine Commando: Captain R.M N. C. Ries
4th Special Service Brigade: Brigadier B.W. Leicester
No.41 Royal Marine Commando: Lieutenant Colonel T. M. Gray
No.46 Royal Marine Commando: Lieutenant Colonel Campbell R. Hardy
