Order of Battle
In August, 1944, the 1st Belgian Brigade consisted of:
- Staff
- British Liaison
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd Motorised companies - each with rifle platoons reinforced by mortar, machine gun, anti-tank and anti-aircraft platoons.
- Armoured Car Squadron - 4 squadrons equipped with a mixture of Daimler Armoured Cars, Staghound armoured cars (some armed with anti-aircraft weapons) and Daimler "Dingo" Scout Cars and a supply and recovery squadron
- Artillery Battery - 12 25 pounder gun-howitzers, organised into 3 troops, one of which was Luxembourgeois.
- Engineers Company
- Transport Company
- Repair Detachment
- Medical Unit
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