Divisione Corazzata della Guardia Britannica, 1944

Table of Organisation & Equipaggiamento

Carro armato medio Sherman Mk.V della Divisione Corazzata della Guardia. The vehicle has been converted from a Sherman Mk.V Firefly by shortening the gun barrel. The yellow triangle tactical sign indicates that the veicolo is from A Squadron 1^o Battaglione (Corazzato) della Guardia Coldstream, the second reggimento corazzato in the brigade. I reggimenti corazzati e battaglioni di fanteria of the division were cross-attached to form battlegroups like the Irish Guards Group which spearheaded the advance of 30th Corps toward Arnhem, o the Coldstream Guards Battlegroup which captured Lingen on the Ems river in 1945. Vehicles carried numbered e colour-coded Tac Signs on the right fender. The tac signs bicolore shown below were actually arranged con the first colour above the second colour, not adjacent to eachother.

Divisione Corazzata della Guardia 1944

• Major-General Allan H. S. Adair
• Divisional Headquarters (white tactical signs) 40

• Divisional Troops (white tactical signs)
  • 2nd Armoured Reconnaissance Battalion, Welsh Guards, 41
    Similarly organised as the armoured regiments of the 5th Guards Brigade, but con the main difference that the unit was equipped con tre Cromwells ed one A30 Challenger tank per troop. Later in the campaign the Challengers were gradually replaced by Firefly tanks.
• Real Artiglieria
  • Headquarters 40
  • 55th Field Regiment (R.H.A.)
    • 24 towed 25 pdr Field Guns
  • 153rd Field Regiment (R.A.)
    • 24 Priest o Sexton Self-Propelled Guns
  • 21st Anti-Tank Regiment (R.A.) 77
    • 17 pdr Anti-Tank Battery (towed)
    • 17 pdr Anti-Tank Battery (towed)
    • 17 pdr M.10 Anti-Tank Battery (self-propelled)
    • 17 pdr M.10 Anti-Tank Battery (self-propelled)
  • 94th reggimento contraerei leggero (R.A.)
    • Cannoni contraerei Bofors (towed, self-propelled)
• Royal Engineers
  • Headquarters
  • 14th Field Squadron (R.E.)
  • 615th Field Squadron (R.E.)
  • 148th Field Park Squadron (R.E.)
  • 11th Bridging Troop (R.E.)

• Irish Guards Battlegroup
  • Lieutenant-Colonel J. O. E. Vandeleur
  • 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards, 53 (see 5th GAB below)
  • 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards, 62 (see 32nd Guards Brigade)
    The Irish Guards Battlegroup led the advance of the 30th Corps britannico in the 1944 Arnhem campaign.
• 5th Guards Armoured Brigade 50
  • Brigadier N. W. Gwatkin
  • Brigade Headquarters
  • 2nd Armoured Battalion, Grenadier Guards (red tactical signs) 51
  • 1st Armoured Battalion, Coldstream Guards (yellow tactical signs) 52
  • 2nd Armoured Battalion, Irish Guards (blue tactical signs) 53
  • 1st Motor Battalion, Grenadier Guards (green tactical signs) 54
    • Battalion Headquarters
    • Support Company
    • 3 Motor Companies (fanteria portata da semicingolati)
      • Company Headquarters
      • 3 Motor Platoons
      • 1 Scout Platoon (mounted in 13 Bren Carriers)

• 32nd Guards Brigade (fanteria)
  • Brigadier G. F. Johnson
  • Brigade Headquarters 60
  • No. 1 Independent compagnia mitragliatrice,
    Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 64
    • Plotone mitragliatrice
      • 4 mitragliatrici da .303 Vickers
      • 4 Universal Carriers
    • Plotone mitragliatrice (same as above)
    • Plotone mitragliatrice (same as above)
    • Mortar Platoon
      • 4 x 4.2" Mortars
      • 4 Universal Carriers
    • Wasp Flamethrower Platoon (1945)
  • 5th Battalion, Coldstream Guards 61
  • 3rd Battalion, Irish Guards (see Irish Guards Group above) 62
  • 1^o battaglione, Welsh Guards 63
    • Battalion Headquarters
    • Headquarters Company
      • Motor Platoon
      • Carrier Platoon (mounted in 13 Bren Carriers)
      • Anti-tank Platoon
      • Engineer Platoon
    • 4 Rifle Companies
      • Company Headquarters
      • 3 Fanteria Platoons

Troop e vehicle numbers were normally displayed inside the colourcoded squadron tactical sign. Some veicoli carried only the squadron tactical sign, others displayed the troop/vehicle numbers on the rear of the torretta stowage bins. It is important to remember that the Guard Armoured Battalion followed the organisation of an Armoured Regiment.

Francis Liew

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Soldatini Britannici della Seconda Guerra Mondiale

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