28TH INFANTRY BRIGADE (UNITED KINGDOM)

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The '28th Infantry Brigade' was a British Army formation which served during the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War.

Contents

History

Korea

Structure

Commanders

External links

History

The Brigade was part of 9th (Scottish) Division during World War I.
Initially the brigade belonged to the 9th (Highland) Infantry Division from 1939 to 1940. After the destruction of the 51st Highland Division during the Battle of France in 1940, the 9th Division was redesignated the 51st Highland Division and the 28th Brigade was reformed as the 154th Infantry Brigade.
The 28th Brigade came into being again when the 2nd Gibraltar Brigade was redesignated as the 28th Brigade at Gibraltar on 1 December 1943. It served with the 4th Infantry Division in the Italian Campaign and in Greece.

Korea

The Brigade arrived in Hong Kong from the UK in 1949, to join the 40th Infantry Division. It arrived in April 1951 in Korea , took the title '28 Commonwealth Brigade' and joined the 1st Commonwealth Division, and served right through the war until leaving in 1954.

Structure

'Under 9th Highland Division'

★ 7th Battalion, Black Watch

★ 10th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

★ 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
'24 December 1943'

★ 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry

★ 2nd Battalion, King's Regiment (Liverpool)

★ 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - (From 5th Dec.1944)

★ 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment - (From 24 March 1944)
Mid 1949

★ 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers

★ 1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment

★ 1st Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Korea

★ 1st Battalion, The King's Own Scottish Borderers, July 1951-August 1952

★ 1st Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry, July 1951-September 1952

★ 1st Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, August 1952-July 1953

★ 1st Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, September 1952-July 1953

★ 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), September 1950-July 1953

★ 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR), June 1952-March 1953

★ 2nd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (2 RAR), April 1953-July 1953

Commanders

★ Brig. B.A. Campbell (CO of original brigade)

★ Brig. A.C.L. Stanley Clarke (CO of original brigade)

★ Brig. A.J.L. Purves

★ Brig. C.A.M.D. Scott

External links

★ Order of Battle

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