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Divisional Troops


2nd Battalion, Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment
(from 7 June 1943, joined as divisional support battalion, became machine gun battalion 28 February 1944)

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49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps
(formed 5 September 1942, became 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps 1 January 1944)

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Royal Artillery

69th (West Riding) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
70th (West Riding) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (until 6 August 1940)
71st (West Riding) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (until 6 August 1940)
74th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 30 November 1944)
79th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 8 until 23 June 1940)
80th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 8 until 23 June 1940)
143rd (Kent Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 26 April 1942)
178th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 15 May 1942)
185th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 24 December 1942, disbanded 29 November 1944)

55th (Suffolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 26 July 1943)
58th (Duke of Wellington's) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (until 23 June 1940)
88th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 17 June 1942 until 24 July 1943)


118th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 5 July until 8 December 1942)
89th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery (from 29 December 1942)

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5.5-inch gun and AEC Matador artillery tractor of 121st Medium Regiment during operations to cross the River Seine at Vernon, 25 August 1944 (IWM BU55) The 121st Field Regiment was sent to Iraq in 1941, fought with the British Eighth Army in the North African Campaign and the American Fifth Army in the Italian Campaign before returning to the United Kingdom to take part in the Normandy invasion as a Medium Regiment with 5.5-inch Gun-Howitzers.
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Royal Engineers

228th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers (until 30 September 1939)
229th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers (until 4 April 1940)
230th (West Riding) Field Company, Royal Engineers (until 4 April 1940)
294th Field Company, Royal Engineers (from 26 April 1942)
756th Field Company, Royal Engineers (from 26 April 1942)
757th Field Company, Royal Engineers (from 26 April 1942)
231st (West Riding) Field Park Company, Royal Engineers (until 4 April 1940)
289th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers (from 26 April 1942)
23rd Bridging Platoon, Royal Engineers (from 1 November 1943)

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Men of the 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers, 49th Division, constructing a Bailey bridge over the Antwerp-Turnhout Canal, 9 October 1944.
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49th (West Riding) Divisional Signals Regiment, Royal Corps of Signals
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Royal Army Ordnance Corps

49 divisional Ordnance Field Park
49 Mobile Bath and Laundry Unit
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Royal Army Service Corps

118th Company
460th Company
482th Company
483th Company
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Royal Army Medical Corps

146th Field Ambulance
160th Field Ambulance
187th Field Ambulance
16th Field Dressing Station
17th Field Dressing Station
35th Field Dressing Station
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Corps Military Police
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