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The 1st and 2nd Battalions were serving in the 7th Guards Brigade, which also included the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, and were part of the 3rd Infantry Division, led by Major General Bernard Montgomery. The 3rd Battalion was in the 1st Guards Brigade attached to the 1st Infantry Division, commanded by Major General Harold Alexander. [23]
At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, the 7th Infantry Brigade (Guards) [g] was, once again, assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, commanded at the time by Major-General Bernard Montgomery, in Southern Command. It was stationed at Pirbright Camp with the following units under command: 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) 1st Battalion, Queen Victoria's Rifles (7th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps) (Motorcycle Battalion) [nb 8] 20th Guards Brigade Group [nb 9] 2nd Battalion, Irish Guards 2nd Battalion, Welsh Guards 20th Guards Brigade Anti-Tank Company 1st Support Group
1st Guards Brigade 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards; 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards; 1st Battalion, Scots Fusilier Guards; 97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot (had joined by January 1855) Divisional Artillery: A Field Battery (2nd Company, 8th Battalion) H Field Battery (5th Company, 11th Battalion)
7th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel D.E.B. Talbot; 214th Infantry Brigade Brigadier Hubert Essame. 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel R.E. Osborne-Smith; 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel George Taylor; 7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, Lieutenant Colonel R.E ...
1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion, ... 1/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment: 1/1st Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Lt. Inf.
The Grenadier battlegroup consisted of the tanks of the 2nd Battalion and the motor infantry of the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards. This required some rearranging of the division: although occasionally altered, the Grenadier and Irish groups formed the 5th Brigade, and the Coldstream and Welsh groups made the 32nd Brigade.
1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders 5/7th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders 154th Infantry Brigade 1st Battalion, Black Watch 7th Battalion, Black Watch 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 126th, 127th, and 128th Field Regiments, Royal Artillery 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry 61st Antitank Regiment, Royal Artillery 40th Light AA Regiment, Royal ...