1st POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION

1st POLISH ARMOURED DIVISION

Formed:
February 1942

Service Record:
Great Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany

Operations and Campaigns:
Normandy Campaign
Operation Totalize
Operation Tractable

Unit Structure 1942 to 1945:

Divisional Staff:

Commander:
General Stanislaw Maczek (February 1942)

Brigades:

10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade:
Commander:
Colonel T. Majewski
Units:
1st Polish Armoured Regiment
2nd Polish Armoured Regiment
24th Polish Lancers Regiment (Armoured)
10th Polish Dragoons Regiment

3rd Polish Infantry Brigade:
Commander:
Colonel M. Wieroński
Units:
1st Polish Highland Battalion
8th Polish Rifle Battalion
9th Polish Rifle Battalion
1st Polish Independent Heavy Machine Gun Squadron

Divisional Artillery:
Commander:
Colonel B. Noel
Units:
1st Polish Motorized Artillery Regiment
2nd Polish Motorized Artillery Regiment
1st Polish Anti-Tank Regiment
1st Polish Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

Divisional Troops:

Armoured Divisional Signals:
1st Divisional Armoured signals
Armoured Engineers:
1st Divisional Armoured Engineers

Reconnaissance:
10th Polish Mounted Rifle Regiment