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633:Deployment of forces on the eve of battle
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340:Lieutenant Colonel R. P. Lidwill (acting)
319:Lieutenant Colonel M. K. Jackson (acting)
270:151st Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company
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757:Routes taken by the D-Day invasion
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450:King's Shropshire Light Infantry
374:Arras counter-attack 21 May 1940
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534:Afrika Korps
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196:British Army
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101:Part of
75:British Army
29:
1355:22nd Guards
1245:4th (Malta)
1235:3rd (Malta)
1220:2nd Malayan
1215:2nd (Malta)
1195:1st Malayan
1190:1st (Malta)
879:43rd Wessex
877:, with the
687:Mareth Line
501:Eighth Army
495:as part of
465:Middle East
144:Wadi Akarit
140:Mareth Line
111:Engagements
2314:Categories
1741:6th London
1736:5th London
1731:4th London
1726:3rd London
1721:2nd London
1716:1st London
1265:6th Guards
1255:5th Guards
961:References
779:Gold Beach
773:Assignment
619:El Alamein
497:XIII Corps
479:, then in
431:Evacuation
349:Brigadier
334:Brigadier
328:Brigadier
313:Brigadier
301:Brigadier
293:Commanders
169:commanders
162:Commanders
132:El Agheila
2264:Hong Kong
1280:7th Motor
1097:, p. 206.
886:Eindhoven
831:Lingèvres
549:Brigadier
43:1939–1946
2289:Southern
2284:Northern
2244:Adriatic
1071:Watson,
1056:Archived
980:Archived
893:Nijmegen
224:Normandy
189:infantry
85:Infantry
2299:Western
2274:Kowloon
2259:Central
1225:2nd SDF
1200:1st SDF
1073:TA 1947
916:Postwar
732:Messina
683:Tunisia
663:Tunisia
613:private
586:X Corps
402:Weygand
242:History
216:Tunisia
204:Belgium
194:of the
192:brigade
187:was an
167:Notable
117:(1940)
95:Brigade
48:Country
2269:Jewish
2227:Other:
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860:Garden
819:Bayeux
813:Action
542:Gazala
538:Allied
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487:, and
477:Cyprus
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208:France
66:Branch
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2016:164th
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941:, at
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743:D-Day
728:Avola
726:, at
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489:Egypt
485:Syria
406:Arras
384:Lille
148:D-Day
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1091:ISBN
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869:The
833:and
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724:Noto
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91:Size
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