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56th Infantry Brigade 8th May 1944 Recce 9th May 1944 Conference 3rd Jun 1944 Preparations 5th Jun 1944 On the Move 5th Jun 1944 Orders 6th Jun 1944 Almost to Plan 6th Jun 1944 Heavy Swell 6th Jun 1944 Under Fire 6th Jun 1944 Mortar Fire 6th Jun 1944 Heavy Sea 6th Jun 1944 Into Position 6th Jun 1944 Landing 6th Jun 1944 Ashore 6th Jun 1944 Mortar Fire 6th Jun 1944 Behind Schedule 7th Jun 1944 Town Taken 7th Jun 1944 Advance 7th Jun 1944 Advance 7th Jun 1944 Enemy Position 7th Jun 1944 Moves 7th Jun 1944 In Support 8th Jun 1944 Prisoners 8th Jun 1944 Consolidation 8th Jun 1944 In Action 9th Jun 1944 Reliefs 10th Jun 1944 Bocage 12th Jun 1944 Patrols 13th Jun 1944 In Action 27th Jun 1944 On the Move 8th Jul 1944 In Action 8th Jul 1944 Attack Made 9th Jul 1944 In Action 9th Jul 1944 Counter Attack 10th Jul 1944 In Action 10th Jul 1944 Mortar Fire 1st Aug 1944 Orders 1st Aug 1944 Reliefs 2nd Aug 1944 Orders 7th Sep 1944 Planning 8th Sep 1944 Planning 9th Sep 1944 Bad Weather 10th Sep 1944 Attack Made 11th Sep 1944 Attack Made 12th Sep 1944 Attack Made 1st Oct 1944 Orders 1st Oct 1944 In Action 2nd Oct 1944 Orders 3rd Oct 1944 Orders 3rd Oct 1944 Support 1st Nov 1944 Contact 2nd Nov 1944 Conference 3rd Nov 1944 Attack Made 20th Jan 1945 Counter Attack 25th Jan 1945 Reliefs Completed 9th March 1945 Water Falling 9th March 1945 Shelling 10th March 1945 Artillery Active 11th March 1945 Reliefs 11th March 1945 Reliefs 15th March 1945 Reorganisation 20th March 1945 Training 22nd March 1945 Training 22nd March 1945 Training 25th March 1945 Orders 1st May 1945 Restricted Firing 2nd May 1945 Food Convoys 3rd May 1945 Truce 4th May 1945 Annoucement 5th May 1945 Cease Fire 6th May 1945 Orders 7th May 1945 Document 8th May 1945 Patrols 9th May 1945 Quiet 10th May 1945 Disarming 11th May 1945 Disarming 12th May 1945 Visits 13th May 1945 Service of Thanksgiving 14th May 1945 Equipment 15th May 1945 Conference 16th May 1945 Reliefs If you can provide any additional information, especially on actions and locations at specific dates, please add it here. Those known to have served with 56th Infantry Brigade during the Second World War 1939-1945. This page is new, as yet no names have been submitted. The names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. Announcements The Wartime Memories Project has been running for 24 years. If you would like to support us, a donation, no matter how small, would be much appreciated, annually we need to raise enough funds to pay for our web hosting and admin or this site will vanish from the web. 9th May 2024 - Please note we currently have a huge backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site. 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There are:79 items tagged 56th Infantry Brigade available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Second World War.