Component Units
(all brigades stripped away from the division prior to the Second Battle of El Alamein)
- 23rd Armoured Brigade
- 40th Royal Tank Regiment
- 46th Royal Tank Regiment
- 50th Royal Tank Regiment
- 7th The Rifle Brigade
- 24th Armoured Brigade
- 41st (Oldham) Royal Tank Regiment
- 45th Royal Tank Regiment
- 47th Royal Tank Regiment
- 11th The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 133rd Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Bn, The Royal Sussex Regiment
- 4th Bn, The Royal Sussex Regiment
- 5th Bn, The Royal Sussex Regiment
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