2 SWB were in 56th (Sphinx) Independent Brigade who were with 50th div on D-Day then went to 49th Div.
From The Polar Bears by Patrick Delaforce page 126.
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The 2nd Battalion South Wales Borders had served with the Polar Bears in the ill-fated Norwegian Campaign in the spring of 1940.
On D-Day, four years later, they were the only Welsh Battalion to land with the assault troops on the beaches at Asnelles. Their first serious battle was at the Chateau de Sully, and the next was on 8 July at Granville and the Boix de St German,where they sufferd 130 casualties. Early in August they again suffered heavily at Courts Genets and Fourneaux-le-Val. When they joined the Polar Bears they were commanded by Lt-Col Barlow.
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