Oranization - Armoured Recce Regts.

[Bill Alexander]

The IV PLDG's were the armoured recce battalion for 1st Div until the summer of 1944. At that time they were converted to an infantry battalion and served with the 11th Infantry Brigade until February 1945. The unit was then converted back to armoured recce. During the period that the Plugs were an infantry battalion, they kept the naming of squadrons for the infantry companies. This often leads to confusion about the role of the Plugs. They were heavily engaged as an infantry battalion in the fall of 1944 and until Operation Goldflake in the late winter of 1945.