ODB - Grande Bretagne - 1st Airborne

Création : novembre 1941

Divisionnal units
- 1st Airlanding Reconnaissance Squadron (Royal Armoured Corps)
- 21st Independant Parachute Company (Pathfinders)
- 1st Airborne Division Signals Element

1st Parachute Brigade (Brigadier G.W. Lathbury)
- 1st Bn. Parachute Regiment
- 2nd Bn. Parachute Regiment
- 3rd Bn. Parachute Regiment

4th Parachute Brigade (Brigadier J.W. Hackett/Lt-Colonel I.A. Murray)
- 10th Bn. Parachute Regiment
- 11th Bn. Parachute Regiment
- 156th Bn. Parachute Regiment

1st Airlanding Brigade (Brigadier P.H.W. Hicks)
- 7th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers)
- 1st Bn. Border Regiment
- 2nd Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment

Artillery
- 1st Airlanding Light Regiment
- 1st/2nd Airlanding Anti-Tank Batteries
- 1st Airlanding Light Anti-Aircraft Battery

Airborne Royal Engineer
- 1st Parachute Squadron
- 4th Parachute Squadron
- 9th Airborne Field Company
- 261st Airborne Field Park Company

Source : J. Bouchery, Le Tommy de la LIbération, T 2, L'organisation, l'armement, les véhicules, Histoire et Collections, 2004, p 24

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