British Berlin brigade

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The Berlin Brigade of the British Army consisted of some 3,000 men in three infantry battalions, an armoured squadron, and a number of support units. It may have initially not been part of the British Army of the Rhine despite being based in Germany. However, it is recorded, at the very least, by the mid-1980s, that the brigade was indeed part of BAOR, being its second major component after I (BR) Corps.^[1]

The actual units assigned to Berlin were rotated regularly; the single armoured squadron was detached from an armoured regiment assigned to I (BR) Corps. A single Flight of the Army Air Corps, based at RAF Gatow, provided aviation support.