Louise Dragoon Guards) 1st Infantry Division Support Battalion (The Saskatoon Light Infantry) (Machine Gun Battalion) 1st Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery 2nd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 3rd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 1st Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 1st Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery 1st Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers 3rd Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers 4th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers 2nd Field Park Company, Royal Canadian Engineers British 231st Infantry Brigade Group (Brigadier Roy Urquhart) 2nd Battalion Devonshire Regiment 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment 165th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 295th Field Company, Royal Engineers Corps artillery 6th Army Group, Royal Artillery 2nd Anti-Aircraft Brigade Corps troops 1st Special Reconnaissance Squadron No. 3 Commando No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando Also supporting XIII Corps 5th Army Group, Royal Artillery XXX Corps Artillery Operation Slapstick – 9 September Landings at Taranto British Eighth Army General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery British 1st Airborne Division Major-General George F. Hopkinson; killed in action 9 September replaced by Major-General Ernest Down 1st Parachute Brigade (Brigadier G.W. Lathbury) 1st Parachute Battalion 2nd Parachute Battalion 3rd Parachute Battalion 16th (Parachute) Field Ambulance 2nd Parachute Brigade (Brigadier Ernest Down) 4th Parachute Battalion 5th Parachute Battalion 6th Parachute Battalion 127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance 4th Parachute Brigade (Brigadier J.W. Hackett) 10th Parachute Battalion 11th Parachute Battalion 156th Parachute Battalion 133rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance 1st Airlanding Brigade (Brigadier Pip Hicks) 1st Battalion Border Regiment 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment 181st (Airlanding) Field Ambulance Glider Pilot Regiment Operation Avalanche – 9 September Landings at Salerno U.S. Fifth Army Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark British X Corps Northern landing beaches Lieutenant-General Richard L. McCreery 46th Infantry Division (Major-General John Hawkesworth) 128th (Hampshire) Infantry Brigade (Brigadier M.A. James) 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 5th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 138th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier G.P. Harding) 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment 2/4th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment 139th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier R.E.H. Stott) 2/5th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment 5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters 16th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry Divisional Troops 2nd Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (Machine Gun Battalion) 46th Reconnaissance Regiment, Reconnaissance Corps 70th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 71st Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 172nd Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 58th Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery 5th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery 115th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 270th Field Company, Royal Engineers 271st Field Company, Royal Engineers