25th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 25th Infantry Brigade was a war-formed infantry brigade of the British Army during the First and Second World Wars. The brigade was created in 1914 from various Regular Army battalions serving around the British Empire as the 25th Brigade and saw action on the Western Front of the Great War, serving with the 8th Division at First Ypres, the Neuve Chapelle, the Somme and Third Ypres.

Recreated in the Second World War as the 25th Infantry Brigade on 1 November 1939, it saw action during the battles of France and Belgium in May 1940. After this it was based in the United Kingdom where it remained until 1944 as a training brigade within the 47th Infantry (Reserve) Division when it was disbanded on 31 August.

Component units in World War I

• 2nd Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment
• 2nd Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
• 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles
• 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
• 2nd Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment
• 1/8th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
• 13th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment
• 1/1st (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment

Component units in World War II

• 4th Battalion, Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment)
• 4th Battalion, Border Regiment
• 1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
• 1/7th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)
• 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers
• 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment
• 9th Battalion, Royal Norfolk Regiment
• 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Commanders

• Brig. Reginald Byng Stephens (1915 – 1916)
• Brig. Clifford Coffin (1917)
• Brig. William Havelock Ramsden (1939 – 1940)
• Brig. Alexander Blest (1940 – 1941, 26 March 1941 – 30 August 1944)
• Brig. E.T.L Gurdon (1941)

External links

• 25 Infantry Brigade at Orders of Battle.com