 As invasion neared in mid @-@ 1944 , the two battalions moved from their camps to ports in southern England and embarked aboard troopships and landing ship tanks . Much of the Liverpool Irish embarked aboard the Ulster Monarch , a passenger ship that had served on the Belfast @-@ Liverpool line before the war . Having been delayed , the invasion fleet proceeded to Normandy on 5 June . Both King 's battalions landed on D @-@ Day , the 5th at Sword with the 3rd British Infantry Division and the Liverpool Irish at Juno with the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division . 
