32nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

32nd Infantry Brigade
32nd Guards Brigade
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
Role Infantry
Size brigade
Part of 11th (Northern) Division
Guards Armoured Division
Engagements First World War
Second World War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
John Ormsby Evelyn Vandeleur

The 32nd Infantry Brigade was a British Army formation from World War I to after World War II.

World War I

The Brigade was raised originally as the 32nd Infantry Brigade, part of the 11th (Northern) Division, a New Army formation which served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front during World War I.[1]

Component Units during World War I

World War II

The Brigade was reformed as 32nd Guards Brigade on 1 October 1941, joining the Guards Armoured Division, but did not see active service until it arrived in Normandy on 25 June 1944. It fought throughout the campaign in North West Europe.

Component Units during World War II

Commanders

Its commanding officers in World War II included:

Postwar

The Brigade was reraised in the early 1950s and joined the 3rd Infantry Division. The Brigade was moved from Cyprus to reinforce the British forces in the Canal Zone in February 1952, but was later disbanded by being redesignated 29th Infantry Brigade.

External links

References

  1. F. G. Spring, 'Appendix III: 11th (Northern) Division', The History of the 6th (Service) Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Poacher Books, 2008), 108.
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