United Kingdom

United Kingdom

of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Land units

Infantry Battalion of the Queen's Regiment

2nd Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry

Special forces

Raiding Support Regiment

Long Range Desert Group (LRDG)

Special Boat Squadron

Commando

2nd Special Service Brigade

No. 2 Commando

No. 9 Commando

No. 10 Commando - Yugoslav Troop

No. 40 (Royal Marine) Commando

No. 43 (Royal Marine) Commando

Royal Artillery

No.111 Field Regiment (3 batteries each with 8 x 25pdr gun-howitzers), colonel J.S. Elliott

No.31 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

No.64 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment

No.567 Searchlight Battery

No. 151 Light Field Ambulance Detachment Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Navy

Landing Craft, Infantry - LCI

LCI 260

LCI 281

LCI 308

Motor Gun Boats - MGB

No.663, sunk by mine off Maestra Point, 10 October 10 1944

Motor Torpedo Boats - MTB

No.287, grounded on Levron (ZeÄa/Levrera?) Island, 24 November 1944

No.371, grounded on Levron Island, 24 November 1944

No.372, sunk by surface craft gunfire when patrolling off Cape Loviste, 23/24 July 1944

No.655, sunk by mine, Kvarner Gulf near Arsa (?), 7 killed, 21 March 1945

No.697 (102t, 7/43), sunk by mine off Krk Island, 17 April 1945

No.705, sunk by mine, Maknare Channel, 2 missing, 23 March 1945

No.710, sunk by mine near Zadar, 10 April 1945

Motor Launches - ML

No.558, mined, N Adriatic, 5 May 1945

No.1163, sunk by torpedo, probably surface craft, Molat Island, 5 January 1945

Royal Air Force

No. 334 Special Duties Wing, Brindisi Group Comdr. W. E. Rank1n

624 Squadron

Polish Flight

122nd Liaison Squadron (B-25)

Battles and Campaigns

Major operations

Operation DETAINED - Allied raid on Å olta island

Operation ENDOWMENT -Allied raid on Hvar island

Operation FARRIER - Allied raid on Mljet island

Operation FLOUNCED - Allied raid on BraÄ island

Operation GRADIENT - Allied raid on LoÅ¡inj and Cres islands

Operation EXTERMINATE - Hunt for German corvettes

Operation RATWEEK - Joint air and land attack on German communications to Greece

Operation ANTAGONIZE III - mine clearance in southern Adriatic.

ANISEED

GRANDFATHER 1 - Artillery raid on 2nd Battalion of 750 Jager Regiment by F Troop. 476 Battery

DECOMPOSED TWO - Artillery raid on OrebiÄ‡ nad KorÄula

GELIGNITE - canceled landing in Istria by British 8th Army for planed joint offensive with Partisans towards Vienna

Covert operations

Disclaim - British aid mission to partisans near Sarajevo.

Typical - Parachuting of military attaches to Titos forces in Yugoslavia during German anti-partisan operation SCHWARZ

Penitent - Special forces operations mounted in the Dalmatian Islands, 22 Dec 43.

Bunghole - operation involving using gliders to carry a Russian military mission to meet up with Tito.

Bearskin - Release of certain information to Tito to co-ordinate a peak of Partisan activities against German LoC running North through Slovenia.

Clowder

Operation SPLENDID - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation LAMP - SIS operation on Hvar and BraÄ islands

Operation RENOWN - SOE operation on Istrian coast

Operation MERMAID - SIS operation on Dugi

Operation CLARET - ISLD operation in Istria

Operation SPAM - SIS operation in northern Yugoslavia

Operation ENGRAVE I - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation LEMON - SIS operation on Istrian coast

Operation HARVEST - SIS operation near Umag, Istria

Operation TURF - SIS operation near Umag, Istria

Operation TRIBUTE - SIS operation near Rovinj, Istria

Operation SHOOT I-IX - SBS operations on Mljet, KorÄula and BraÄ islands

Operation VIRGINIAN - AFHQ operation in Kunje bay

Operation FOOTHOUND - SBS operation on Mljet island

Operation HALTER II - LRDG operation in Istria

Operation STRANGE - SIS operation in Istria

Operation ADDICT I-IXX - LRDG operation in Istria

Biographies

Links

Australian War Memorial online - 200+photos of WW2 in Yugoslavia

S.O.E. in Yugoslavia and the Balkans

Books

Britain and the War for Yugoslavia, 1940-1943 by Mark C. Wheeler

Britain, Mihailovic and the Chetniks, 1941-42 by Simon C. Trew