The 6th Airborne Division order of battle lists only those units assigned to the division; units attached only for short periods of time are not included.
The emblem of the Second World War British Airborne Forces, Bellerophon riding the flying horse Pegasus.
In the immediate post war period the 1st Airborne Division was disbanded leaving the 6th as the only airborne division in the British Army.[3] Near the end of 1945, the division was named the Imperial Strategic Reserve and posted to the Middle East and deployed in an internal security role, during unrest in the British mandate of Palestine. By 1948, the British Army numbers had returned to peace time levels and the division was disbanded leaving the independent 2nd Parachute Brigade as the only regular army airborne formation.[4]
6th Airborne Division Air Photographic Interpretation Section
2nd Mobile Photographic Enlargement Section
1947
By January 1947, the 6th Airlanding Brigade, the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, the 21st Independent Parachute Company had been disbanded and the 286th Airborne Park Squadron were renumbered the 249th.[8]
63rd Composite Company (Airborne), Royal Army Service Corps
398th Composite Company (Airborne), Royal Army Service Corps
716th Company (Airborne Light), Royal Army Service Corps
127th (Parachute) Field Ambulance
224th (Parachute) Field Ambulance
195th (Airlanding) Field Ambulance
74th Field Hygiene section
6th Airborne Division Ordnance, Field Park Royal Army Ordnance Corps
6th Airborne Division Workshops. Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
6th Airborne Division Battle School
6th Airborne Division Training School
6th Airborne Division Provost Company
317th Field Security Section
16th Field Cash Office (Light)
6th Airborne Division Air Photographic Interpretation Section
2nd Mobile Photographic Enlargement Section
1948
The division had been reduced to two parachute brigades and supporting troops, the majority of which served in Palestine, while the 2nd Parachute Brigade was based in England.[9]
