ORDER OF BATTLE
17-09-1944
Operation Market Garden
Order of Battle Operation Garden
17-09-1944
Operation Market Garden
Order of Battle Operation Garden
General Officer Commanding:
5-08-1944
Lieutenant-General Brian Horrocks
Chief-of-Staff:
1-1944
Brigadier Peter Pyman
Chief Liaison Officer:
1944
Lieutenant-Colonel J.R.Bowring
Corps Commander Royal Artillery:
8-1944
Brigadier Stuart Blundell Rawlins
Chief Engineer:
1944
Brigadier B.C. Davey
Chief Signals Officer:
1944
Brigadier Harry Bartlett
Deputy Adjutant & Quartermaster-General:
1944
Brigadier George C. Webb
R.A.F. Liaison Officer:
9-1944
RAF Captain Donald Love
Aide-de-Camp to GOC:
3-08-1944
Captain Harold Young
1944
Lieutenant Lord Rupert Nevill
R.A.F. Liaison Officer:
RAF Captain Donald Love
Corps Troops:
XXX Corps Royal Signals
XXX Corps Royal Engineers
XXX Corps Royal Artillery
11th Hussars RAC
73rd Anti-Tank Regiment RA
27th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment RA
5th Army Group Royal Artillery
General Officer Commanding:
12-09-1942
Brigadier Sir Allan Adair
21-09-1944
Major-General Sir Allan Adair
G.S.O. 1:
Lieutenant-Colonel J.D. Hornung
Guards Division Artillery
Brigadier H.C. Phips
- 55 th Field Regiment RA
- 153 rd Field Regiment RA
- 21 st AT Regiment RA
- 94 th LAA Regiment
- 2nd Household Cavalry Regiment
- 2nd (Armoured Recce) Bn,Welsh Guards
5th Guards Armoured Brigade
Brigadier Norman Gwatkin
- 2nd Armoured Bn,Grenadier Guards
- 1st Armoured Bn,Coldstream Guards
- 2nd Armoured Bn,Irish Guards
- 1st Motor Bn, Grenadier Guards
Irish Guards Battle Group
Lieutenant-Colonel Joe Vandeleur
- 2 nd Armoured Battallion Irish Guards
- 3 rd Batallion Irish Guards
Grenadier Guards Battle Group
Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Coulburn
- 2 nd Armoured Battalion Grenadier Guards
DivArty
Brigadier H.C. Phips
Brigadier J.C.O. Marriott
- 5th Bn, Coldstream Guards
- 3rd Bn, Irish Guards
- 1st Bn, Welsh Guard
Brigadier George Johnson
- 1 st Armoured Battalion Coldstream Guards
- 5 th Battalion Coldstream Guards
General Officer Commanding:
Major-General Ivor Thomas
- 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment
129th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier G.H.L. Mole
- 4th Bn, Somerset Light Infantry Regiment
- 4th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment
- 5th Bn, Wiltshire Regiment
- 130th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier J.C.O. Marriott
- 5th Bn, Coldstream Guards
- 3rd Bn, Irish Guards
- 1st Bn, Welsh Guard
- 4th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment
- 5th Bn, Dorsetshire Regiment
- 214th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier H. Essame
- 7th Bn, Somerset Light Infantry Regiment
- 1st Bn, Worcestershire Regiment
- 5th Bn, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Regiment
Lieutenant-Colonel H.F. Meynell
- 43 rd Reconnaissance Regiment RAC
Lieutenant-Colonel Lane Fox
- Wessex Division Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Heath
- 129 th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier G.H.L. Mole
- 4 th Bn Somerset Light Infantry
- 4 th Bn Wiltshire Regiment
- 5 th Bn Wiltshire Regiment
- 130 th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier Ben Walton
- 7 th Bn Hampshire Regiment
- 4 th Bn Dorsetshire Regiment
- 5 th Bn Dorsetshire Regiment
- 214 th Infantry Brigade
Brigadier Hubert Essame
- 7 th Bn Somerset Light Infantry
- 1 st Bn Worcestershire Regiment
- 5 th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
Brigade was gekoppeld aan de 43rd Wessex Infantry Division
van 17-09-1944 t/m 26-09-1944.
Commanding Officer:
Colonel Steve de Ruyter van Steveninck
Second-in-Command:
Major Charles Pahud de Mortanges
Chief of Staff:
Major Jonkheer Jan Beelaerts van Blokland
Deze brigade was vanaf 20n t/m 26-09-1944-gekoppeld aan Wessex Division.
Commanding Officer:
Brigadier George Prior-Palmer
- 4th/7th Dragoon Guards Regiment
- 13th/18th Hussars Regiment
- Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Regiment Sherwood Rangers
- 12th Bn,Queen's
- Westminsters, King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 147th Field Regiment Royal Artillery Essex Yeomanry