59th (Staffordshire) Division trained in Northern Command with X Corps and IX Corps, in Wales with III Corps, and had a spell in Northern Ireland from June 1942 to March 1943. On return to England it trained with XII Corps for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy. By this stage of the war divisional signals comprised about 28 officers and 700 ORs, with one company providing communications for DHQ, a second supplying sections to the divisional artillery units, and the third to the infantry brigade HQs, the reconnaissance regiment, the machine gun battalion and the divisional engineers.