Would just like to add, later 4 Div Engineers came under the command of 5 Div, 27th May 1940, namely, 7, 59,and 225 Field Companies, preparing positions along the Lys, with 225 Company on the Comines Bridge, which they held until 12:00 hrs 27th May withdrawing before they were encircled by 61st Inf Div. 7,59 and 225 then along with 6th Bn Black Watch, A, B, and C Sqn's 13th/18th Hussars, took the lead in "The Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal", starting at 19:00 hrs. 3rd Bn Grenadier Guards, 2nd North Staffs and 2nd Sherwood Foresters, followed to their left just after 20:00 hrs.
Very nice thread from 10 years ago. Tracking 1/9th Manchester regiment (III Corps) is killing me. LOL. Their four companies got lent to at least 4 different Brigades during the period May 20 to May 28 5 Div: 13th Brigade 17th Brigade HQ 50 Div: 150th Brigade 151st Brigade You must look at individual diaries for the receiving brigades, for example: 17 Bde 2 Wiltshires (13th Bde)
Don't forget that 1/9th Manchesters were the III Corps specialist Machine Gun Battalion armed with a total of 48 Vickers .303 Medium MG's, not an ordinary infantry battalion, so their individual MG companies/platoons would be "lent out" to individual brigades on an as required basis by Corps HQ to give additional fire support to infantry units. IIIrd Corps, British Expeditionary Force, May 1940 The battalion would not normally be expected itself to fight as a complete unit. Here's the organisation of an MG battalion in 1940: Infantry (Machine Gun) Battalion, May 1940
