Operation Perch order of battle

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

Chief of the General Staff: Freddie de Guingand

Second Army

General Officer Commanding-in-Chief: Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey

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

XLVII Panzer Corps

2nd Panzer Division

LXXXIV Korps