HC Deb 06 February 1945 vol 407 cc1921-6W
Sir R. Glyn

asked the Secretary of State for War if he will give the lists of units of the British Army serving in the respective theatres of war that have been released for publication, giving in each case the date of such release.

Sir J. Grigg

The following units have at various times been announced as serving in the theatres of war mentioned. I regret that it is not now possible to state the date on which each individual release was made.

North West Europe.

  • Household Cavalry Regiment.
  • 5th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery.
  • 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guard.
  • 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards.
  • 1st The Royal Dragoons.
  • The Royal Scots Greys.
  • 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.
  • 11th Hussars.
  • 13/18th Royal Hussars.
  • 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars.
  • 22nd Dragoons.
  • 23rd Hussars.
  • 1st Bn., Royal Tank Regiment.
  • 3rd Bn., Royal Tank Regiment.
  • 5th Bn., Royal Tank Regiment.
  • The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry.
  • The Staffordshire Yeomanry.
  • Derbyshire Yeomanry.
  • Lothians and Border Yeomanry.
  • Fife and Forfar Yeomanry.
  • 2nd County of London Yeomanry.
  • 4th County of London Yeomanry.
  • Northamptonshire Yeomanry.
  • 1st East Riding Yeomanry.
  • 10th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 141st Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps.
  • 25th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 33rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 83rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 90th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (City of London).
  • 112th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (West Somerset Yeomanry).
  • 131st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 150th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 153rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Leicestershire Yeomanry).
  • 181st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 185th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 65th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (Norfolk Yeomanry).
  • 102nd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 64th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 165th Heavy A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 15th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 89th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 123rd Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 151st Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • Grenadier Guards.
  • Coldstream Guards.
  • Scots Guards.
  • Irish Guards.
  • Welsh Guards.
  • The Royal Scots.
  • The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  • The King's Own Royal Regiment.
  • The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  • The Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
  • The King's Regiment.
  • The Royal Norfolk Regiment (with 3rd Division).
  • The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  • The Devonshire Regiment.
  • The Suffolk Regiment.
  • The Somerset Light Infantry.
  • The West Yorkshire Regiment.
  • The East Yorkshire Regiment.
  • The Green Howards.
  • The Lancashire Fusiliers.
    • 1923
  • The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • The Cheshire Regiment.
  • The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
  • The South Wales Borderers.
  • The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  • The Cameronians.
  • The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • The Worcestershire Regiment.
  • The East Lancashire Regiment.
  • The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
  • The Border Regiment.
  • The Hampshire Regiment.
  • The South Staffordshire Regiment.
  • The Dorsetshire Regiment.
  • The South Lancashire Regiment.
  • The Welch Regiment.
  • The Black Watch.
  • The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
  • The Essex Regiment.
  • The Royal Berkshire Regiment.
  • The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
  • The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  • The Middlesex Regiment.
  • The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  • The Wiltshire Regiment.
  • The Manchester Regiment.
  • The Durham Light Infantry.
  • The Highland Light Infantry.
  • The Seaforth Highlanders (with 1st Canadian Army).
  • The Gordon Highlanders.
  • The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders.
  • The Royal Ulster Rifles.
  • The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.
  • The Rifle Brigade.
  • 8th (Irish) Bn., The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • The Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • The Monmouthshire Regiment.
  • 1st Bn., Tyneside Scottish, The Black Watch.
  • Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment.
  • The Herefordshire Regiment.
  • Hallamshire Bn., The York and Lancaster Regiment.

Italy.

  • 2nd Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery.
  • 12th (H.A.C.) Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery.
  • Lovat Scouts.
  • 1st King's Dragoon Guards.
  • 3rd The King's Own Hussars.
  • 4th Queen's Own Hussars.
  • 9th Queen's Royal Lancers.
  • 10th Royal Hussars.
  • 12th Royal Lancers.
  • 16th/5th Lancers.
  • 17th/21st Lancers.
  • 27th Lancers.
  • 46th Battalion (Liverpool Welsh) Royal Tank Regiment.
  • Derbyshire Yeomanry.
  • Lothians and Border Yeomanry.
  • North Irish Horse.
  • 1st Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps.
  • 4th Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps.
  • 44th Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps.
  • 56th Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps.
  • 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 17th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 19th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 24th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 30th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
    • 1924
  • 53rd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 57th Field Regiment, Royal Artilery.
  • 62nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 67th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 68th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 70th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 71st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 78th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 92nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 97th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Kent Yeomanry).
  • 98th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Surrey and Sussex Yeomanry).
  • 113th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 138th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 142nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 152nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Ayrshire Yeomanry).
  • 154th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Leicestershire Yeomanry).
  • 156th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lanarkshire Yeomanry).
  • 165th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 172nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 368th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 13th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 14th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 54th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery (Queen's Own Glasgow Yeomanry).
  • 58th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 77th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 81st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 66th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Lowland).
  • 75th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Shropshire Yeomanry).
  • 78th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry).
  • 80th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery (Scottish Horse).
  • 5th Survey Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 18th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 26th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 49th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 51st (Devon) Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 57th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 81st Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 90th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 91st Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 99th Light A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • 23rd Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 42nd Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 150th Railway Construction Company.
  • 577th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 238th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 242nd Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 245th (Welsh) Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 248th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 252nd Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 254th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 271st Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 272nd Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 281st Field Park Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 18th Field Park Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 558th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
  • 625th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers.
  • 627th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers.
  • 8th Field Squadron, Royal Engineers.
  • Grenadier Guards.
  • Coldstream Guards.
  • Scots Guards.
    • 1925
  • Irish Guards.
  • Welsh Guards.
  • The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  • The King's Own Royal Regiment.
  • The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.
  • The Royal Fusiliers.
  • The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  • The Somerset Light Infantry.
  • The Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • The Leicestershire Regiment.
  • The Green Howards.
  • The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  • The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • The Cheshire Regiment.
  • The Cameronians.
  • The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
  • The East Surrey Regiment.
  • The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
  • The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • The Hampshire Regiment.
  • The Black Watch.
  • The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Airborne).
  • The Essex Regiment.
  • The Sherwood Foresters.
  • The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire).
  • The Northamptonshire Regiment.
  • The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
  • The King's Shropshire Light Infantry.
  • The Middlesex Regiment.
  • The King's Royal Rifle Corps.
  • The Wiltshire Regiment.
  • The Manchester Regiment.
  • The North Staffordshire Regiment.
  • The York and Lancaster Regiment.
  • The Durham Light Infantry.
  • The Seaforth Highlanders.
  • The Gordon Highlanders.
  • The Royal Irish Fusiliers.
  • The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
  • The Rifle Brigade.
  • The Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • 9th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (Yorkshire Dragoons).
  • Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment.
  • London Scottish.
  • London Irish Rifles.
  • 40th Company, R.A.S.C. (Infantry Brigade).
  • 42nd Company, R.A.S.C. (Divisional Troops).
  • 550th Company, R.A.S.C. (Infantry Brigade).
  • 537th Company, R.A.S.C. (Tank Transporter).
  • 1553rd Artillery Platoon, R.A.S.C.
  • 2nd Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 3rd Field Ambulance R.A.M.C.
  • 137th (Northern Midland) Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 152nd Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 184th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 185th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 217th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 226th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C.
  • 22nd Field Surgical Unit.
  • 104th General Hospital.

Far East.

  • 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards).
  • 25th Dragoons.
    • 1926
  • 8th Heavy A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery.
  • The Royal Scots.
  • The Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
  • The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster).
  • The King's Regiment (Liverpool).
  • The Royal Norfolk Regiment.
  • The Lincolnshire Regiment.
  • The Devonshire Regiment.
  • The Suffolk Regiment.
  • The Somerset Light Infantry.
  • The West Yorkshire Regiment.
  • The East Yorkshire Regiment.
  • The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment.
  • The Leicestershire Regiment.
  • The Green Howards.
  • The Lancashire Fusiliers.
  • The Royal Scots Fusiliers.
  • The Royal Welch Fusiliers.
  • The South Wales Borderers.
  • The King's Own Scottish Borderers.
  • The Cameronians.
  • The Gloucestershire Regiment.
  • The Worcestershire Regiment.
  • The East Lancashire Regiment.
  • The Duke of Wellington's Regiment.
  • The Border Regiment.
  • The Royal Sussex Regiment.
  • The South Staffordshire Regiment.
  • The Dorsetshire Regiment.
  • The South Lancashire Regiment.
  • The Black Watch.
  • The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
  • The Essex Regiment.
  • The Northamptonshire Regiment.
  • The Royal Berkshire Regiment.
  • The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  • The Wiltshire Regiment.
  • The Manchester Regiment.
  • The York and Lancaster Regiment.
  • The Durham Light Infantry.
  • The Seaforth Highlanders.
  • The Cameron Highlanders.
  • The Nigeria Regiment.