From the Beaches to the Baltic: 'G' Company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade

G Company, as a mobile infantry company, fought with a strength of 175 officers and men, and consisted of one scout (reconnaissance) platoon (in Bren Carriers) and three mobile infantry platoons (using White half-tracks). Each platoon consisted of anything between 29 to 43 men and was itself divided again into three sections. Company histories are rare, as usually such histories were only produced at battalion or divisional level. Written so shortly after the cessation of hostilities this account has an immediacy that modern histories lack.