Order of Battle
- Commanders
- Brigadier Edwin Flavell
- Brigadier Nigel Poett
- Brigadier Kenneth Darling
- Units – Europe
- 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion
- 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion
- 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion
- 'D' Company, 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- 225th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
- 4th Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery
- 591st (Antrim) Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers
- Units – Far East
- 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion
- 12th (Yorkshire) Parachute Battalion
- 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion
- 225th Parachute Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
- 4th Airlanding Anti-Tank Battery, Royal Artillery
- 22nd Independent Parachute Company, Army Air Corps
- 591st (Antrim) Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers
- Parachute Platoon, Light Composite Company, Royal Army Service Corps
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