19th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

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19th Light Brigade
Insignia of 19th Light Brigade
Active	1892-1901 1914-1919 1938-1939 *1950-Present Day
Country	Great Britain
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Light Infantry
Part of	3rd Mechanised Division
Commanders
Notable commanders	Horace Smith-Dorrien

1 History
2 Current Formation
3 External links

[edit] History

[edit] World War I

The 19th Infantry Brigade crossed to France as an independent brigade before being attached to the 6th Division as a fourth brigade. However it was moved to the 27th Division on May 31, 1915 and was not replaced, reducing the 6th Division to the standard three infantry brigades.

[edit] World War II

The Brigade was a regular British Army formation at the beginning of World War II. It had been raised in 1938 for Internal Security in Palestine.

On 3 September 1939 it was converted to HQ Jerusalem Area to avoid confusion with an Indian Army brigade with the same number.

[edit] Post 1945

In the 1980s the Brigade was part of Eastern District and headquartered at Colchester as part of 3rd Armoured Division. The third part of the division, it would have had to cross the Channel to join the rest of the division, stationed with the British Army of the Rhine in Germany. Following the disbandment of the 3rd Armoured Division following the end of the Cold War, the brigade joined the new 3rd Mechanised Division, and moved to Catterick Garrison in Yorkshire. As part of the Delivering Security in a Changing World review in 2003 it was announced that the brigade was to become a 'Light' formation. The brigade became 19th Light Brigade as of 1 January 2005, and it is planned to move to Northern Ireland following the 'normalisation' of British military operations in the province.