Component Units
The 79th was raised as a conventional armoured division, with one Armoured Brigade and one Infantry Brigade. On 14 August 1942 its structure was:
27th Armoured Brigade - Attached to the 79th Armoured Division from 8 September 1942 until 20 October 1943.
- 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards
- 13th/18th Royal Hussars (Queen Mary's Own).
- East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry
185 Infantry Brigade - Transferred out to 3rd Infantry Division on 9 April 1943.
- 2nd Bn Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- 1st Bn Royal Norfolk Regiment
- 2nd Bn King's Shropshire Light Infantry
- 1943
30th Armoured Brigade - Transferred in to the division on 17 October 1943.
- 141st Regiment Royal Armoured Corps - operated Crocodile in Normandy
- 22nd Dragoons
- 2nd County of London Yeomanry
- 1st Lothian and Border Horse
'1st Assault Brigade and Assault Park Squadron RE - Formed on 1 November 1943
- 5th Assault Regiment RE
- 6th Assault Regiment RE
- 42nd Assault Regiment RE
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