文档介绍：50 th Tyne & Tees
69 Brigade 151 Brigade 231 Brigade
5th Battalion, East 6th Battalion 2nd Battalion,
Yorkshire Regt Durham Devonshire Regiment
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) Light Infantry As ‘5th Bn, East Yorkshire Regt’
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) As ‘5th Bn, East Yorkshire Regt’
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT)
st
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) 1 Battalion,
pany (6x 3” mortars, 6x 6 pdr guns, 8th Battalion Hampshire Regiment
13x Universal carriers)
Durham As ‘6th Bn, Green Howards’
Light Infantry
th
6 Battalion, As ‘6th Bn, Green Howards’ 1st Battalion,
Green Howards Dorsetshire
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) th
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) 9 Battalion Regiment
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) Durham As ‘7th Bn, Green Howards’
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT)
pany (6x 3” mortars, 6x 6 pdr guns, Light Infantry
13x Universal carriers) As ‘7th Bn, Green Howards’
7th battalion,
Green Howards
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT)
2nd Battalion, st ecce egiment
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) 61 R R
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) The Cheshire Royal Armoured
pany (3x 2” mortars, 9x MG, 3x PIAT) Regiment (Machine-gun) Corps
pany (6x 3” mortars, 6x 6 pdr guns,
(36x MMG, 12x ” Mortars) (27x Humber IV, 21x Humber III LRC
13x Universal carriers) armoured cars, 54x Universal carriers,
12x M5 half-tracks, 8x 6 pdr guns,
6x 3” mortars)
1939-40 Brigade (an independent unit formed from regular troops
th stationed on Malta) were permanently attached, and the
In 1939 the 50 Division anised as a Motor Division 56 Brigade was temporarily attached for the initial beach
and served in France in 1940, taking part in the evacuation assault. Later the 56 Brigade was transferred to the 49th
at Dunkirk. After escaping, it was anised as a Infantry ‘West Riding’ Division.
Division in Britain. It was sent on 22 April 1941 to North
Africa and was reinf