Editing Sword Beach (section)

==Order of battle==
===3rd Division group===
[[File:Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944. BU1181.jpg|thumb|Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword, 6 June 1944.]]
[[File:British 3rd Infantry Division2.svg|20px]] '''[[3rd Division (United Kingdom)|3rd Division]]'''<ref name = Joslen>Joslen, pp. 584–585.</ref> –  Major-General T. G. Rennie

'''[[8th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|8th Brigade]]''' (assault brigade)
* 1st Battalion [[Suffolk Regiment]]
* 2nd Battalion [[East Yorkshire Regiment]]
* 1st Battalion [[South Lancashire Regiment]]
'''[[9th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|9th Brigade]]'''
* 2nd Battalion [[Lincolnshire Regiment]]
* 1st Battalion [[King's Own Scottish Borderers]]
* 2nd Battalion [[Royal Ulster Rifles]]
'''[[185th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)|185th Brigade]]'''
* 2nd Battalion [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment]]
* 1st Battalion [[Royal Norfolk Regiment]]
* 2nd Battalion [[King's Own Shropshire Light Infantry]]
'''Divisional Troops'''
* 3rd Reconnaissance Regiment [[Royal Armoured Corps]]
* HQ [[Royal Artillery]] (RA) 3rd Division
** 33rd and 76th Field Regiments, RA (self-propelled guns)
** 7th Field Regiment, RA
** 20th Anti-Tank Regiment, RA
** [[92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery|92nd (Loyals) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment]], RA
* 3rd Divisional [[Royal Engineers]] (RE)<ref name = Joslen/><ref name = Pakenham>Pakenham-Walsh, pp. 335–336.</ref> – CRE: Lieutenant Colonel R.W. Urquhart
** 17th Field Company, RE
** 245th Field Company, RE
** 253rd Field Company, RE
** 15th Field Park Company, RE
* 3rd Divisional Signals, [[Royal Corps of Signals]]
* 2nd Battalion [[Middlesex Regiment]] (machine guns)

'''Attached units and formations'''<ref name = Joslen/>

'''[[27th Armoured Brigade]]''' 
* [[13th/18th Royal Hussars]] ([[DD tank]]s)
* 1st [[East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry|East Riding Yeomanry]]
* [[Staffordshire Yeomanry, Royal Armoured Corps|Staffordshire Yeomanry]]
5th Assault Regiment, RE<ref>Watson & Rinaldi, p. 124.</ref>
* 77 & 79 Assault Squadrons, RE ([[Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers|AVREs]])
* 629 Field Squadron, RE
* 71 Field Company, RE
* [[263rd (Sussex) Field Company, Royal Engineers|263rd (Sussex) Field Company, RE]] (attached from [[XII Corps Troops, Royal Engineers]] as beach obstacle clearance parties)<ref>Morling, p.  221.</ref>
[[File:British Commandos Patch.svg|20px]] '''[[1st Special Service Brigade]]''' (landed on eastern extremity of Sword) – Brigadier Lord Lovat
* [[No. 3 Commando]] – Lieutenant Colonel [[Peter Young (historian)|Peter Young]]
* [[No. 4 Commando]] – Lieutenant Colonel Robert Dawson
** A force of 176 French Marine Commandos from [[No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando]], commanded by Commandant [[Philippe Kieffer]] landed with No. 4 Commando
* [[No. 6 Commando]] – Lieutenant Colonel Derek Mills-Roberts
* [[No. 45 (Royal Marine) Commando]] – Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ries
[[File:British Commandos Patch.svg|20px]] '''[[4th Special Service Brigade]]''' (landed between Juno and Sword)

'''101 Beach Sub-area'''<ref name = Joslen/><ref>Rogers p. 20</ref>
* [[Beach groups#No.5 Beach Group|No. 5 Beach Group]] (Queen sector)
**[[5th Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool)|5th Battalion]] [[King's Regiment (Liverpool)]]
* 'M' AA Assault Group (from [[80th Anti-Aircraft Brigade (United Kingdom)|80th Anti-Aircraft Brigade]])<ref name = OO80>80 AA Bde Operation Order No 1, 20 May 1944, in 80 AA Bde War Diary 1944, [[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives (TNA), Kew]], file WO 171/1085.</ref><ref name = Routledge>Routledge, pp. 305–307.</ref><ref name = RA39>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050307140427/http://www.ra39-45.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/nweuro/page2.html 3 Division at Royal Artillery 1939–45.]</ref>
** RHQ [[73rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery|73rd Light AA Rgt]], RA – Lieutenant-Colonel J.A. Armstrong
*** 218 LAA Bty and 296 LAA Bty less 2 Troops
** G & H Troops 322 LAA Bty, [[93rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery|93rd LAA Rgt]], RA
** 322 HAA Bty and C Troop 323 HAA Bty, 103rd Heavy AA Rgt, RA
** B Troop [[474th Searchlight Battery, Royal Artillery|474 Independent Searchlight Bty]], RA
** 16 Fire Control Post, RA
** 76 & 103 Coast Observation Detachments, RA
** One Platoon 112 Company [[Royal Pioneer Corps|Pioneer Corps]] (smoke generators)
** 73 LAA Rgt Workshop, [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] (REME)
* 'N' AA Assault Group (from 80th AA Bde)<ref name = OO80/><ref name = Routledge/>
** RHQ [[103rd Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery|103rd HAA Rgt]], RA – Lieutenant-Colonel H.E. Johnston (AA Defence Commander, 101 BSA)
*** D Troop 323 HAA Bty and 324 HAA Bty
** 220 LAA Bty, 73rd LAA Rgt, RA
**  I Troop 322 LAA Bty, 93rd LAA Rgt, RA
** C Troop 474 S/L Bty, RA
** 160 AA Operations Room, RA
** One Platoon 112 Company, Pioneer Corps
** 103 HAA Rgt Workshop, REME
* 18th GHQ Troops Engineers<ref name = Joslen/><ref name = Pakenham/> – CRE: Lieutenant-Colonel J.H. Boyd
** 84th Field Company, RE
** 91st Field Company, RE
** 8th & 9th Stores Sections, RE
** 50th Mechanical Equipment Section, RE
** 205th Works Section, RE
** 654th & 722nd Artisan Works Companies, RE
** Two Advanced Park Sections of 176th Workshop and Park Company, RE
** 49th Bomb Disposal Section, RE
** 999th & 1028th Port Operating Companies, RE
** 940 Inland Water Transport Company, RE
** Five Companies, Pioneer Corps
* [[Beach groups#No.6 Beach Group|No. 6 Beach Group]] (in reserve)
** 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]