Battle of Villers-Bocage order of battle

The 22nd Armoured Brigade group, was made up of Corps and Divisional troops from XXX Corps and the 7th Armoured Division as well as elements of the divisional 22nd Armoured Brigade and 131st (Queens) Infantry Brigade.

The Brigade group was placed under the command of the 22nd Armoured Brigade commanding officer, Brigadier W. R. N. "Looney" Hinde.

• XXX Corps - Lieutenant-General G. C. Bucknall
  • 7th Armoured Division - Major-General G. W. E. J. Erskine
    • 22nd Armoured Brigade group (Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde)
      • 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade
        • A Company (minus Scout platoon), C and I Companies
        • Support Company, one AT Section attached to each rifle company
      • 1/5th Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
        • A, B, C and D Companies
      • 1/7th Battalion Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
        • A, B, C and D Companies
      • 4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) (Cromwell, Sherman Firefly and M5 Stuart tanks)
        • Headquarters Troop
        • Reconnaissance Troop
        • A, B and C Squadrons
      • 5th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery (Sexton self-propelled gun)
        • C, G and K Batteries
      • 5th Royal Tank Regiment (Cromwell, Firefly and M5 Stuarts)
        • A, B and C Squadrons
      • 8th (King's Royal Irish) Hussars (Cromwell)
        • Headquarters Troop
        • A and B Squadrons
      • 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own) (Daimler Armoured Car)
        • Headquarters Troop
        • C Squadron
      • 65th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment, Royal Artillery^[1]
        • 260th Anti Tank Battery (M10 3in SP Gun )

• I SS Panzer Corps - SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer (General) Josef Dietrich
  • Panzer-Lehr-Division - Generalleutnant (Major-general) Fritz Bayerlein
    • Panzer Lehr Regiment 130 (Panzer IV)
  • SS Heavy Panzer Battalion 101 (Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101) (SS-Obersturmbannführer Heinz von Westernhagen)
    • 1st Panzerkompanie^{[note 1]} (Tiger I) Rolf Möbius
    • 2nd Panzerkompanie (Tiger I) Michael Wittmann
    • 4th Escort Company
• XLVII Panzer Corps - General der Panzertruppen (lieutenant-general) Hans Freiherr von Funck
  • 2nd Panzer Division (elements) - Major-General Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz