42nd Armoured Division

42nd Armoured Division
42nd ARMOURED DIVISION

Formed:
1st November 1941
Disbanded 17th October 1943

Lineage:
42nd Infantry Division

Service Record:
Great Britain

Operations and Campaigns:
None

Unit Structure 1941 to 1943:

Divisional Staff:

Commanding Officers:
Major General M. Dempsey (1st November 1941 to 1st December 1942)
Major General J.A. Aizlewood (1st December 1942 to 17th October 1943)

Brigades:

10th Armoured Brigade (1st November 1941 to 13th May 1943)
Commander: Brigadier P.E. Bowden-Smith (1st November 1942)
Units:
108th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Lancashire Fusiliers)
109th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Lancashire Fusiliers)
143rd Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Lancashire Fusiliers)
13th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

11th Armoured Brigade (1st November 1941 to 13th May 1943)
Commanders:
Brigadier H.L. Birks (1st November 1941 to 25th July 1942)
Colonel R.A. France (26th October to 2nd November 1942)
Brigadier H.C.L. Yeo (2nd November 1942 to 1st June 1943)
Brigadier J.G.R. Runciman (1st June to 1943 to 17th October 1943)
Units:
107th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (King's Own)
110th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Border Regiment)
111th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Manchester Regiment)
1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry

42nd Support Group (1st November 1941 to 31st May 1942)
Commander: Brigadier C. Nicholson (1st November 1941)
Units:
1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
147th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Essex Yeomanry)
53rd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry)
93rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery

Divisional Troops:

Armoured Division Signals: (Royal Corps of Signals)
42nd Armoured Division Signal Regiment, RCS (1st November 1941 to 17th October 1943)

Royal Engineers:
Headquarters 42nd Engineers
16th Field Squadron, RE (3rd November 1941 to 17th September 1943)
17th Field Squadron, RE (3rd November 1941 to 1st March 1943)
617th Field Squadron, RE (1st March to 17th September 1943)
149th Field Park Squadron, RE (3rd November 1941 to 17th September 1943)

Reconnaissance:
112th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (Foresters) (17th November 1941 to 24th February 1943)
1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry (18th April to 16th October 1943)