Order of Battle
- Commanders
- Brigadier Hugh Kindersley (1943 - 1944)
- Brigadier Edwin Flavell (1944 - 1945)
- Brigadier Hugh Bellamy (1945)
- Brigadier Roger Bower (1945 - 1946)
- Units assigned
- 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- 1st Battalion, Royal Ulster Rifles
- 12th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
- 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 53rd (Worcestershire Yeomanry) Airlanding Light Regiment – Royal Artillery
- 249th (Airborne) Field Company – Royal Engineers
- 195th (Airlanding) Field Ambulance – Royal Army Medical Corps
- Units attached
- 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade
- Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade
- 6th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
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