This page documents where the Armoured Regiments of 4th Armoured Brigade were located in the UK prior to embarking for the Normandy Landings

4th Armoured Brigade

Notes:

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[3] Now Victoria Grand Nursing Home, 22 Mill Road, Worthing, BN11 4LF (As per the address given in the War Diaries of 14th Lt Fld Amb., February 1944). Main part of Signals section with Brigade HQ

[4] As mentioned in the units War Dairies. No specific location know at present.

[5] Tank Park for 3rd Country of London Yeomanry was in Navarino Road, Worthing, so Regiment probably billeted in adjacent streets.

[6] Billeted in same general area as 3rd Country of London Yeomanry in East Worthing, probably to the west of the former, but no specific location known at present.

[7] Now Old Hall Convent, East Bergholt, Suffolk.

[8] Now a block of flats as hotel was destroyed by fire in the 1990's.

[9] Became part of the Brigade as of 25th June 1944, assigned from 5th Army Group Royal Artillery.