17th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

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The 17th Infantry Brigade was a British Army formation that was composed, largely, of Regular Army battalions in both the First and Second World War.

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The Brigade was originally part of the 6th Infantry Division during the First World War, but transferred to the 24th Division in October 1915..

The brigade served with the 5th Infantry Division through most of the Second World War. On 5 May 1942 it was part of Force 121 in the invasion of Madagascar. After this the 17th Infantry Brigade served in the Italian Campaign.

After the war the Brigade occupied the southern brigade district in the Suez Canal Zone for a period in the late 1940s before being disbanded.