British Independent Brigades on D-Day
Battle order – June 6, 1944 – Battle of Normandy
11th Armored Vehicles Regiment
73rd Anti-Tank Regiment
27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
4th Cartography RA Regiment
30th Engineering Corps
30 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, remplacd by Major Elliott on June 12th, 1944
A Company
B Company : Captain Eric Watson, wounded on June 11th, 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
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
