What were the different parts in a British airborne division such as company battalion squad etc?

Answer 1

A start can be found here: wingsofliberation.nl listing, amongst others, the units making up the 1st British Airbone division at the time of Arnhem. regiments.org Will give an overview of British names and terms. I think that the British Army generally base their formations on the # 3. There would be, 3 squads to a section. 3 sections to a platoon. 3 platoons to a company. 3 companies to a battalion. 3 batt. to a regiment. 3 regt. to a brigade. 3 brigd. to a divison. 3 div. to a corps. 3 corps to an army group. 3 groups to an Army. There is always in addition to each formation within a regt. a support unit,and from company level up, H.Q. Unit plus specialties like "motar platoon", "reconnaissance platoon" etc. There is also in the Div. a Field Ambulance, M.T., Artillery, signals, engineers, intel, supply(stores), etc. This can be adjusted to suit the requirement with additional batts. added to a regt.such as the Parachute Regt. having 18 batts during W.W.2 plus a Brigd. of Gurkha and Indian para's in the Indian Army,and 6th Airborne Div included 1st Canadian Para Batt. The British Divisions in W.W.2 also included 1 Brigd. of Glider-borne Troops consisting of 4 batts. Everyone involved were classed as Airborne because they all arrived on the battlefield "borne on the air", and all fought side by side surrounded by the enemy. Hope this helps as a general guide. Re-reading my previous response, I need to add a correction - should read 3- armies to an army group. (Got it the wrong way around, my apologies !! Fred.