40th Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 40th Brigade was a formation of the British Army. It was one of the new army or Kitchener's Army brigades, and assigned to the 13th (Western) Division and served in the Gallipoli and the Mesopotamian campaign during the First World War.

Formation

Not all the infantry battalions served in the brigade at the same time.

• 8th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
• 8th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers
• 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers
• 8th Battalion, Welsh Regiment
• 5th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment
• 40th Machine Gun Company
• 40th Supply & Transport Column Army Service Corps
• 40th Trench Mortar Battery

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