over temporary command of II Corps to Maj-Gen Bernard Montgomery of 3rd Division. Under Montgomery, II Corps was evacuated from Dunkirk in June 1940. Order of battle Order of Battle at Dunkirk GOC: Lieutenant-General Alan Brooke (until 30 May 1940)Maj-General Bernard Montgomery (acting from 30 May 1940) 3rd Infantry Division 4th Infantry Division 5th Infantry Division (in GHQ Reserve on 10 May) 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division Royal Artillery 60th (North Midland) Army Field Regiment 88th (2nd West Lancashire) Army Field Regiment (attached to 1st Division 28 May) 53rd (London) Medium Regiment, 59th (4th West Lancashire) Medium Regiment 53rd (King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment 2nd Survey Regiment II Corps Troops, Royal Engineers 222nd, 234th, 240th Army Field Companies 108th Corps Field Park Company 14th Corps Field Survey Company 2nd (London) Corps Signals, Royal Corps of Signals Infantry—Machine Guns 2nd Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 2nd and 1st/7th Battalions, Middlesex Regiment Deception plans After commanding forces in the United Kingdom, from Lower Hare Park near Newmarket within Eastern Command, II Corps was being disbanded in early 1944 when selected to be one of the two corps comprising the notional British Fourth Army, which under the deception plan Fortitude North was supposed to attack Norway. For this operation II Corps was supposedly headquartered at Stirling in Scotland, and notionally consisted of the genuine 3rd Infantry Division (shortly replaced by the notional 58th Infantry Division), the genuine 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division in Northern Ireland, and the genuine 113th Independent Infantry Brigade in Orkney. Under Fortitude North II Corps was supposedly to attack Stavanger, with the 3rd Division (later the 58th) and supporting commandos and paratroops seizing the airfields, the 55th (West Lancashire) Division joining as followup; the genuine U.S. XV Corps from Northern Ireland would augment the force, which would advance on Oslo. The corps was transferred to First United States Army Group (FUSAG) in early June 1944 and moved to Lincolnshire; restored to Fourth Army when that formation joined FUSAG for Fortitude South II, headquarters now at Tunbridge Wells in Kent, with under command the British 55th and 58th divisions and the British 35th Armoured Brigade. It was notionally transferred to France in late September, consisting of the essentially notional 55th Division, the genuine 79th Armoured Division, and the notional 76th Infantry Division; also apparently at times the genuine 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division, disbanded but notionally kept alive. It was