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III Corps
4th Indian Infantry Division
-HQ and 7th Indian Infantry Brigade (Salonika)
-5th Indian Infantry Brigade (In Italy)
-11th Indian Infantry Brigade (Arriving at Patras)
23rd Aroured Brigade
- 40 RTR
- 46 RTR*
- 50 RTR*
- 11 King's Royal Rifle Corps*
- 463 Battery, 104 Royal Horse Artillery (till 15.2.45)*
- 1238 Field Company, Royal Engineers*
2nd Parachute Brigade Group (Salonika)
-4th, 5th* and 6th Parachute Battalions (presumed the 5th was in Salonika)
- 330 Airlanding Anti-tank Battery, Royal Artillery*
- 64 Field Battery, Royal Artillery (till 3.12.44)*
- 'A' Airlanding Light Battery, Royal Artillery (from 4.12.1944)*
- 2nd Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers*
- 2nd Independant Glider Pilot Squadron*
- 23rd Independant Parachute Platoon*
2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry (Patras)
40th Royal Marine Commando (Corfu)
9th Commando (Salonika)
Special Boat Squadron and Long Range Desert Group, L.F.A (Athens)
Source:
*General Sir William Jackson, The Mediterransean and Middle East Volume VI, Victory in the Mediterraneas Part III - November 1944 to May 1945, pp.18, 22 (footnote)
2nd Para Brigade left Greece on 28.1.1945 going to Italy, then onto the UK and was attached to the 6th Airborne Division (Joslen, p. 410)
4th Infantry Division arrived in Greece on 13.12.1944 and was attached to 3 Corps. (Joslen, pp. 45, 46)
- 10 Infantry Brigade
- 12 Infantry Brigade
- 28 Infantry Brigade
- 4 Recce Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
- 22, 30, 77th Field Regiments, Royal Artillery
- 14 Anti Tank Regiment
- 7, 9, 225 Field Companies, Royal Engineers
- 3 Bridging Platoon, Royal Engineers
- 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
46th Infantry Division arrived in Greece on 14.1.45, it left on 7.4.45 going back to Italy. (Joslen, pp. 75, 76)
- 128th Infantry Brigade
- 138th Infantry Brigade
- 139 Infantry Brigade
- 46 Recce Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
- 270. 271, 272 Field Park Companies, Royal Engineers
- 201 Bridging Platoon, Royal Engineers
- 70, 71, 172 Field Regiments, Royal Artillery
- 58 Anti-tank Regiment, Royal Artillery
- 9 Battalion, The Manchester Regiment