Operation Perch order of battle explained

This is the order of battle for the Operation Perch, a World War II operation between British and German forces in Normandy, France between June 6 and June 19, 1944.

British Order of Battle

21st Army Group

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: General Sir Bernard Montgomery^[1]
Chief of the General Staff: Freddie de Guingand

Second Army

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey^[1]

I Corps

Lieutenant-General John Crocker

• 51st (Highland) Infantry Division - Major-General Bullen-Smith
• 4th Armoured Brigade

XXX Corps

Lieutenant-General Gerard Bucknall

• 7th Armoured Division - Major-General George Erskine
• 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division - Major-General Evelyn Barker
• 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division - Major-General Douglas Graham
• 8th Armoured Brigade

German order of battle

I SS Panzer Corps

SS-Obergruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

• Panzer-Lehr-Division
• 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend
• 21st Panzer Division
• Heavy SS Panzer Battalion 101

XLVII Panzer Corps

• 2nd Panzer Division

LXXXIV Korps

• 352nd Infantry Division
• 716th Static Infantry Division

See also

• List of orders of battle

Notes

Footnotes

Citations

References

• Book: Major L.F.. Ellis. Lionel Ellis. Captain G. R. G.. Allen R.N.. Lieutenant-Colonel A.E.. Warhurst. Air Chief-Marshal Sir James. Robb. Butler. J.R.M. James Ramsay Montagu Butler. History of the Second World War United Kingdom Military Series. Victory in the West, Volume I: The Battle of Normandy. Naval & Military Press Ltd. 2004. 1st. pub. HMSO 1962 . 1-84574-058-0. amp.
• Book: Forty, George. Battle Zone Normandy. Villers Bocage. Sutton Publishing. 2004. 0-7509-3012-8.
• Book: Taylor, Daniel. Villers-Bocage Through the Lens. After the Battle. 1999. 1-870067-07-X.
• Book: Wilmot, Chester. Christopher Daniel McDevitt. The Struggle For Europe. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. 1997. 1952. 1-85326-677-9.

Notes and References

1. Wilmot, p. 732