59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division

59th Infantry Division

Battle order – July 1944 – Battle of Normandy

Commander: Major General Lewis Lyne

59th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps

176th Infantry Brigade
– 6th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment
– 7th Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment
– 7th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment

177th Infantry Brigade
– 5th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
– 1st/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
– 2nd/6th Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment

197th Infantry Brigade
– 5th Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
– 2nd/5th Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
– 1st/7th Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment: lieutenant-colonel Edward Jerram
A Company: Major James White
B Company: Major Herbert Hancock
C Company: Major Thomas Blythe, killed on July 8th, 1944 at Saint-Contest
D Company: Major K. C. Banks

Divisional Troops
– 7th Battalion, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Divisional Artillery
– 61st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
– 110th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
– 116th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
– 68th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery

Divisional Engineers
– 257th Field Company, Royal Engineers
– 509th Field Company, Royal Engineers
– 510th Field Company, Royal Engineers