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1st Airborne Division
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Headquarters (HQ)

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General Officer Commanding (GOC)
04.11.1941 Maj.Gen. F.A.M. Browning
06.05.1943 Maj.Gen. G.F. Hopkinson (died of wounds 12.09.1943)
11.09.1943 Maj.Gen. E.E. Down
10.12.1943 Maj.Gen. R.E. Urquhart

Divisional troops

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Royal Armoured Corps (RAC)
Airborne Light Tank Squadron 17.08.1942 - 11.04.1943
1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron 01.01.1944 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Engineers (RE)
9th Field Company RE 19.06.1942 - 25.03.1945
261st Field Park Company RE 15.12.1941 - 25.03.1945
1st Parachute Squadron RE 19.06.1942 - 23.09.1942 & 07.05.1943 - 25.03.1945
2nd Parachute Squadron RE 11.11.1942 - 16.11.1943
3rd Parachute Squadron RE 19.01.1943 - 11.04.1943
4th Parachute Squadron RE 09.06.1943 - 30.10.1944
1st Airborne Squadron RE 26.03.1945 - 31.08.1945
9th Airborne Squadron RE 26.03.1945 - 30.05.1945
591st Airborne Squadron RE 01.06.1945 - 31.08.1945
261st Airborne Park Squadron RE 26.03.1945 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Signals (Sigs)
1st Airborne Divisional Signals  22.02.1942 - 31.08.1945
 
Royal Artillery (RA)
1st Airlanding Light Battery RA 28.09.1942 - 05.02.1943
1st Airlanding Light Regiment RA 06.02.1943 - 03.10.1943 & 11.02.1944 - 31.08.1945
204th Independent Anti-Tank Battery RA 05.08.1942 - 22.10.1942
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA 28.09.1942 - 24.03.1945
2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA 23.10.1942 - 24.03.1945
5th Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery RA 20.02.1945 - 24.03.1945
1st Airlanding Anti-Tank Regiment RA 25.03.1945 - 31.08.1945
283rd Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA 02.07.1942 - 03.12.1942
1st Airlanding Light Anti-Aircraft Battery RA 04.12.1942 - 21.02.1944
 
Infantry

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Reconnaissance
1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron 01.12.1942 - 31.12.1943
 
Army Air Corps
21st Independent Parachute Company 00.07.1942 - 31.08.1945
 
Brigades
1st Airlanding Brigade Group 10.12.1941 - 09.03.1943
1st Airlanding Brigade 10.03.1943 - 31.08.1945
   
1st Parachute Brigade 10.12.1941 - 22.09.1942
3rd Parachute Brigade 13.11.1942 - 11.04.1943
1st Parachute Brigade 07.05.1943 - 05.05.1945 & 25.08.1945 - 31.08.1945
   
2nd Parachute Brigade 30.07.1942 - 16.11.1943
   
4th Parachute Brigade 10.06.1943 - 09.12.1944
 
Literature
[Hilary St. George Saunders] By air to battle : the official account of the British First and Sixth Airborne Divisions London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, [1945]
144 p.































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