2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (until 1 June 1941, rejoined 10 September 1941 until 25 November 1942, rejoined 18 February 1943, left finally 22 February 1943)
1st Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (disbanded 31 December 1940)
1st Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Company, Royal Army Service Corps
Cold War
After the War, the brigade, having lost its 'Guards' title, was transferred to Palestine for internal security duties and then to Egypt for a few months before going back to Palestine in April 1946. Two years later, as the British mandate over Palestine ended, the brigade and division returned to Egypt. In October 1951, British forces pulled out of Egypt outside of the Suez Canal Zone, and later the brigade returned to the United Kingdom, though it was in Cyprus during the EOKA insurgency for a period in 1957–8.[3] In 1968 the dispatch of the entire 3rd Infantry Division began to be planned, as part of the United Kingdom Mobile Force, to reinforce Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT).[6] By the mid-1980s the British Army force earmarked as part of the UKMF to reinforce LANDJUT had shrunk to the 1st Infantry Brigade, as it had become.
In 1991 just before the end of the Cold War, the brigade's structure was as follows.
Under Army 2020, it was renamed as 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade and remained at Tidworth Camp, forming part of the Reaction Force as part of the 3rd (UK) Division.[10][11][12] Under the programme the Brigade consisted of the following units:
1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison.[12]
4th Battalion, The Rifles, at Aldershot (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)
Army 2020 Refine
Under the Army 2020 Refine programme, the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade was due to form up as the first of two Strike Brigades by 2021.[16][17][18] The Brigade then consisted of the following units:[19]
1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison (to become 1st Strike Brigade in 2021).[20]
Strike Experimentation Group, at Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster Garrison (a developmental command, overseen by HQ 1st AI Bde)[21][22][23][24][25][26]
Jane's reported that the brigade was disbanded in early July 2022. The Household Cavalry and Royal Lances were transferred to the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade, and three of the brigade's infantry battalions and the small support subunits were reassigned "to other brigades."[41]
Brigade commanders
The following officers have commanded the brigade:[5][42][43]
^ a b"Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 26 June 2022.
^"Naval & Military intelligence – The 1st Army Corps". The Times. No. 36892. London. 7 October 1902. p. 8.
^ a b c d e"History of 1st Mechanized Brigade" (PDF). British Army. 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^Baker, Chris. "The British 1st Division in 1914–1918". 1914-1918.net. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ a b cJoslen, p. 225
^CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE, UNITED KINGDOM MOBILE FORCE DEPLOYMENT TO NORTHERN EUROPEAN COMMAND (JUTLAND/SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN) PART 1 OF JOINT THEATRE PLAN (JTP) NATO 70 - OPERATION GRACIE, 27 December 1972.
^British Army Master Order of Battle, 1991.
^"1 Armoured Infantry Brigade". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^"Commander praises UK troops as final major Afghan deployment begins". BBC. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
^"Regular Army Basing Plan" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^"Army 2020 report" (PDF). British Army. July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^ a b"Transforming the British Army - An Update" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
^ a b"Household Cavalry parade marks departure for Bulford. • the Military Times". 18 May 2019. Archived from the original on 5 December 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
^ a b"Household Cavalry". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
^ a b"Army/Sec/21/04/FOI2017/02130/78471" (PDF). www.gov.uk. UK Army Secretariat. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
^"Strike Experimentation Group:Written question - 117878". British Army. 6 December 2017. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
^King, Hannah (28 July 2020). "Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise" (PDF). Parliament Publishing Services. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise" (PDF). Parliament Publishing Services. 10 March 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"1 Armoured Infantry Brigade". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
^Hannah King (28 July 2020). "Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"Presentation by the Master of Signals" (PDF). royalsignals.org. 21 September 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
^Charlotte Cross (25 November 2015). "How Will The Army's New 'Strike Brigades' Work?". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^Charlotte Cross (23 November 2015). "#SDSR2015: 5,000-Strong 'Strike Brigades' To Be Created By 2025". Forces Network. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"Strike Experimentation Group" (PDF). whatdotheyknow.com. whatdotheyknow. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020. I can advise that no units have been or will be assigned to the Strike Experimentation Group
^"Strike Experimentation Group". questions-statements.parliament.uk. UK Hansard. 11 December 2017. Archived from the original on 19 October 2020. Retrieved 19 October 2020. The Strike Experimentation Group (SEG) was established in Warminster in April 2017 and is part of the headquarters of 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade
^ a b"Order of Battle is and basing arrangements are for 12th Mechanized Brigade". questions-statements.parliament.uk. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
^"9th/12th Charitable Association Website". Delhispearman.org.uk. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
^"Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise" (PDF). Parliament Publishing Services. 10 March 2017. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 June 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
^"The Royal Lancers have shown their ability to adapt to any task and operate at reach #strikeethos". Twitter. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^"Written Question for the Ministry of Defence regarding Army basing and personnel". UK Parliament. 22 November 2018. Archived from the original on 15 September 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
^"The Garrison: Aldershot Garrison, Home of the British Army". Winter 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2021.
^ a bFallon, Michael (15 December 2016). "Strategic Defence and Security Review – Army: Written statement – HCWS367". Hansard. Retrieved 16 December 2016.
^Regular Army basing matrix by formation and unit (PDF), Army Families Federation, archived from the original (PDF) on 14 August 2016
^"pages 21 22". Archived from the original on 5 January 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
^The Red Hackle November 2012 Archived 7 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine
^Hannah King, 4 SCOTS Return to Work in Catterick after Afghanistan Deployment 3 December 2020. Forces News. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^@3_rifles (18 February 2021). "We've been developing the mounted mindset in B Company this week, training with the MASTIFF vehicle in the rural and urban terrain" (Tweet). Retrieved 20 February 2021 – via Twitter.
^The Rifles and The Royal Gloucestershire,Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Newsletter 2013 Archived July 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^"3 RIFLES". www.army.mod.uk. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
^Ripley, Tim (2 August 2022). "UK disbands armoured infantry brigade". Janes (in Arabic, English, and Japanese). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
^Mackie, Colin (June 2015). "III: Senior Army Appointments: 1860–" (PDF). gulabin.com. p. 223. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
^Becke, Major A. F. (1935). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions. London: HMSO. p. 34. ISBN 1-871167-09-4.
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