First Canadian Army - Order of Battle

Order of Battle

Second World War 1939-1945

• Army Troops
  • Headquarters
    • First Canadian Army Defence Battalion (The Royal Montreal Regiment)
    • No. 1 Army Headquarters Car Company, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps (RCASC)
  • Royal Canadian Artillery
    • No. 1 Army Group, R.C.A.
      • 11th Army Field Regiment
      • 1st Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
      • 2nd Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
      • 5th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
    • No. 2 Army Group, R.C.A.
      • 19th Army Field Regiment
      • 3rd Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
      • 4th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
      • 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
      • 2nd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment (Mobile)
      • 1st Rocket Battery
      • 1st Radar Battery
  • "F" Squadron, 25th Armoured Delivery Regiment (The Elgin Regiment), Canadian Armoured Corps (CAC)
  • 1st Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment, CAC
  • No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC)
  • Nos. 4, 5, 6 & 7 Field Transfusion Units, RCAMC
  • Nos. 9, 10 & 11 Field Dressing Stations, RCAMC
  • No. 14 Field Hygiene Section, RCAMC
  • units of the Canadian Dental Corps (CDC)
  • Nos. 81 & 82 Artillery Companies, RCASC
  • Nos. 35 & 36 Army Troops Composite Companies, RCASC
  • Nos. 41, 45, 47, 63 & 64 Army Transport Companies, RCASC
  • Nos. 1 & 2 Motor Ambulance Convoys, RCASC
  • Royal Canadian Engineers
    • 1st Canadian Army Troops Engineers
      • 10th Field Park Company
      • 5th, 20th & 23rd Field Companies
    • 2nd Canadian Army Troops Engineers
      • 11th Field Park Company
      • 32nd, 33rd & 34th Field Companies
    • No. 1 Workshop and Park Company
    • 1st Field (Air) Survey Company
    • 2nd Field Survey Company
    • 3rd Field (Reproduction) Company
  • First Army Signals, Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS)
  • 1st Air Support Signals Unit
  • Nos. 1, 2 & 3 Special Wireless Sections
  • First Army Troops Workshop, Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
  • No. 11 Provost Company, Canadian Provost Corps
  • No. 1 Canadian Forestry Group, Canadian Forestry Corps
  • No. 1 Army Base Post Office, Canadian Postal Corps
• I Canadian Corps (April 1942 to November 1943; February 1945 to July 1945)
  • (attached to the British Eighth Army in Italy from November 1943 to February 1945)
  • 1st Canadian Infantry Division (in Italy from July 1943 to February 1945)
  • 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division
  • 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade
  • 1st Canadian Corps Defence Company (Lorne Scots)
  • Other Corps Troops
• II Canadian Corps (January 15, 1943 to June 25, 1945)
  • 2nd Canadian Infantry Division
  • 3rd Canadian Infantry Division
  • 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division
  • Polish 1st Armoured Division
  • 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade
  • 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (January to March, 1945)
  • 2nd Canadian Corps Defence Company (Lorne Scots)
  • Other Corps Troops
• I (British) Corps (August 1, 1944 to April 1, 1945)
  • 6th Airborne Division (to 3 September 1944)
    • 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade (August 10, 1944 to September 10, 1944)
  • 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
  • 51st (Highland) Infantry Division (to 19 December 1944)
  • 33rd Armoured Brigade (to September 1944)
  • U.S. 104th "Timberwolf" Infantry Division (mid October to early November, 1944)
• XXX (British) Corps (January to March, 1945 for Operation Veritable)
  • Guards Armoured Division
  • 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division
  • 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division
  • 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division
  • 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division
  • elements of 79th Armoured Division
  • 4th Armoured Brigade
  • 6th Guards Armoured Brigade
  • 8th Armoured Brigade
  • 34th Armoured Brigade