1st Armoured Infantry Brigade

Inactive British Army formation 1st (Guards) Brigade a similarly designated formation 1st Guards Brigade (United Kingdom) other uses 1st Brigade (disambiguation)1st Brigade 1st (Guards) Brigade1st Brigade1st Infantry Brigade (Guards)1st Infantry Brigade1st Mechanized Brigade1st Armoured Infantry Brigade 1st Mechanized.svg Insignia of the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade. 1899–2022 United Kingdom United Kingdom Armoured Infantry, Mechanized Infantry, Light Infantry Brigade 3rd (United Kingdom) Division Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Camp First World WarBattle of MonsFirst Battle of the MarneFirst Battle of the AisneFirst Battle of YpresBattle of Aubers RidgeBattle of LoosBattle of the Somme (1916)Battle of PozièresThird Battle of YpresBattle of ÉpehySecond World WarBattle of FranceFondoukEl KourziaTunisBattle of Monte CassinoLiri Valley NATO Map Symbol 1st (Guards) Brigade 1899 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion, Scots Guards 1st (Guards) Brigade 1914 1st Division 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards 1st Battalion, Scots Guards 1st Battalion, Black Watch 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers 1st Brigade 1918 1st Division 1st Battalion, Black Watch 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders 1st Trench Mortar Battery 1st Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1st (Guards) Brigade 1939 1st Infantry Division 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion Hampshire Regiment 1st Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company 1st (Guards) Brigade 1945 1st Infantry Division 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards 3rd Battalion, Welsh Guards 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade 2020 3rd (United Kingdom) Division Household Cavalry Regiment Royal Tank Regiment Royal Lancers Royal Dragoon Guards 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment 1st Battalion, Scots Guards 3rd Battalion, The Rifles The 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army with a long history including service during both the First and the Second World Wars. It was based at Tidworth Camp. Previously, it has been designated 1st (Guards) Brigade, 1st Infantry Brigade, 1st Mechanised Brigade (from the 1990s) and, under the initial Army 2020 reforms, assumed the title of 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade. Under the Future Soldier programme, the brigade was merged with the 1st Artillery Brigade to form the 1st Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team.Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team https://www.army.mod.uk/future-army/unit-details/3-uk-division/1-deep-recce-strike-brigade-combat-team/ 2022-06-26 www.army.mod.uk en-GB History Following the end of the Second Boer War in 1902, the army was restructured and the 1st Guards Brigade was established permanently as part of the 1st Division in the 1st Army Corps, stationed at Aldershot Garrison.Naval & Military intelligence – The 1st Army Corps 7 October 1902 8 36892 First World War Initially designated as the 1st (Guards) Brigade, the brigade was part of 1st Division during the First World War. Upon creation of the Guards Division in August 1915, the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards and 1st Battalion, Scots Guards moved to 2nd Guards Brigade, and the brigade was redesignated as the 1st Brigade. It was with the 1st Division on the Western Front throughout the war. It saw action at the Battle of Mons and subsequent Great Retreat, the First Battle of the Marne, the First Battle of the Aisne, the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Loos, the Battle of Aubers Ridge, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of Pozières and the Battle of Épehy, part of the final Hundred Days Offensive, which broke the back of the German Army, leading to an Armistice.http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/History_1Mech_Bde.pdf History of 1st Mechanized Brigade British Army 2015 26 July 2015 Order of battle The brigade was composed as follows during the war:http://www.1914-1918.net/1div.htm The British 1st Division in 1914–1918 Chris Baker 1914-1918.net 26 July 2015 11 March 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130311222819/http://www.1914-1918.net/1div.htm dead 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards (until August 1915) 1st Battalion, Scots Guards (until August 1915) 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (until August 1914) 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (from September 1914) 1/14th Battalion, London Regiment (from November 1914, left February 1916) 10th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (from August 1915, disbanded February 1918) 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (from August 1915, left February 1918) 1st Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 26 January 1916, moved to 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 28 February 1918) 1st Trench Mortar Battery (formed 27 November 1915) 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (from February 1918) Second World War Remaining active during the interwar period as the 1st (Guards) Brigade, the brigade, still part of the 1st Infantry Division, was sent to France in September 1939 during the Second World War as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and it later took part in the Battle of France in May–June 1940 and the subsequent Battle of Dunkirk and were evacuated to England, spending the next few years on home defence anticipating a German invasion of England. thumb|right|HM The King reviews the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards at Bachy, France, December 1939. On 11 April 1942, the brigade was redesignated and reorganised as 1st Independent Brigade Group (Guards), with its own support units, until August when it was transferred to the 78th Infantry Division. In late 1942, it took part in the North African Campaign in Operation Torch: the Allied landings in French North Africa, arriving in Algiers in November 1942. The brigade participated in the Run for Tunis and was transferred to the 6th Armoured Division in early 1943 and saw action in the Tunisia Campaign at the Battle of Fondouk, Battle of El Kourzia and Battle of Tunis in April and May 1943. Subsequently, the 1st (Guards) Brigade served on the Italian Front for the rest of the war under command of various divisions, seeing action in the Battle of Monte Cassino (where the brigade played a holding "hinge" role during Operation Diadem) and the Battle of Liri Valley in May 1944. The brigade then fought on the Gothic Line and in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy. Order of battle The 1st (Guards) Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:Joslen, p. 225 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (until 1 June 1941, rejoined 10 September 1941 until 25 November 1942, rejoined 18 February 1943, left finally 22 February 1943) 1st Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (disbanded 31 December 1940) 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (from 25 December 1942 until 16 February 1943) 3rd Battalion, Welsh Guards (from 1 March 1943) 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment (from 9 March 1945 until 29 June 1945) Between 11 April 1942 and 7 August 1942, the following units formed the 1st Independent Brigade Group (Guards): 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1st Independent Brigade Group Machine Gun Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1st Independent Brigade Group Reconnaissance Company, Reconnaissance Corps 17th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery 204th (Oban) Anti-tank Battery, Royal Artillery (from 11 April to 7 August 1942) 136th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery 214th Field Company, Royal Engineers 1st Independent Brigade Group Company, Royal Army Service Corps 152nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps 1st Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Company, Royal Army Ordnance Corps Cold War After the War, the brigade, having lost its 'Guards' title, was transferred to Palestine for internal security duties and then to Egypt for a few months before going back to Palestine in April 1946. Two years later, as the British mandate over Palestine ended, the brigade and division returned to Egypt. In October 1951, British forces pulled out of Egypt outside of the Suez Canal Zone, and later the brigade returned to the United Kingdom, though it was in Cyprus during the EOKA insurgency for a period in 1957–8. In 1968, the dispatch of the entire 3rd Infantry Division began to be planned, as part of the United Kingdom Mobile Force, to reinforce Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT).CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE, UNITED KINGDOM MOBILE FORCE DEPLOYMENT TO NORTHERN EUROPEAN COMMAND (JUTLAND/SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN) PART 1 OF JOINT THEATRE PLAN (JTP) NATO 70 - OPERATION GRACIE, 27 December 1972. By the mid-1980s, the British Army force earmarked as part of the UKMF to reinforce LANDJUT had shrunk to the 1st Infantry Brigade, as it had become. In 1991, just before the end of the Cold War, the brigade's structure was as follows. 1st (United Kingdom Mobile Force) Infantry Brigade, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth CampBritish Army Master Order of Battle, 1991. Headquarters 1st Infantry Brigade and 215 Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth Camp United Kingdom Mobile Force Battle Casualty Replacements Group 601 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control) 602 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control) 610 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control) — RAF personnel 13th/18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars, at Assaye Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Armoured Reconnaissance, 1 Sqn detached to AMF (L)) C Squadron, Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), at Bhurtpore Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Armoured) 1st Battalion, Queen's Regiment, at Mooltan Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Mechanised) 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, at Kiwi Barracks, Bulford (Mechanised) 1st Battalion, The Light Infantry, at Lucknow Barracks, Tidworth (Mechanised) 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island (Field Artillery) 22nd Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, at Swinton Barracks, Perham Down 66 Transport Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth 158 Provost Company, Royal Military Police, at Bulford Camp No. 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps, at AAC Netheravon End of the Cold War After the end of the Cold War, the brigade was reassigned to the new 3rd (UK) Division and subsequently became a Mechanised Brigade. In 1996, it was deployed to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, with Multi-National Division (South-West); in 2000, it was deployed to Sierra Leone and, in 2002, to Kosovo. The brigade was deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Herrick XVIII.http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/29028.aspx 1 Armoured Infantry Brigade Ministry of Defence 26 July 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20170327151841/http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/29028.aspx 27 March 2017 dead dmy-all It was deployed again in 2014, commanded by Brigadier Rupert Jones.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24470368 Commander praises UK troops as final major Afghan deployment begins BBC 10 October 2013 15 August 2015 Army 2020 Under Army 2020, it was renamed the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade and remained at Tidworth Camp, forming part of the Reaction Force as part of the 3rd (UK) Division.https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/136406/regular_army_basing_plan.pdf Regular Army Basing Plan Ministry of Defence 5 March 2013 26 July 2015http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report_v2.pdf Army 2020 report British Army July 2013 26 July 2015Transforming the British Army - An Update http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140610215557/http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report.pdf 2014-06-10 2022-08-02 Under the programme, the Brigade consisted of the following units: 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison. Household Cavalry Regiment, at Ward Barracks, Bulford Garrison (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicles) The Royal Tank Regiment, at Tidworth Garrison 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Infantry, equipped with Warrior IFV) 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Infantry, equipped with Warrior IFV) 4th Battalion, The Rifles, at Aldershot (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles) Army 2020 Refine Under the Army 2020 Refine programme, the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade was due to form up as the first of two Strike Brigades by 2021.https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-06/117878/ Strike Experimentation Group:Written question - 117878 British Army 6 December 2017 12 November 2018Hannah King 28 July 2020 Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops https://www.forces.net/news/catterick-study-assess-how-army-base-can-welcome-3500-extra-troops 2020-07-29 Forces Network en10 March 2017 Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf 29 July 2020 Parliament Publishing Services The Brigade then consisted of the following units:10 March 2017 Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf 29 July 2020 Parliament Publishing Services 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison (to become 1st Strike Brigade in 2021).1 Armoured Infantry Brigade https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brigades/3rd-united-kingdom-division/1-armoured-infantry-brigade/ 2020-10-25 www.army.mod.uk en-GB Strike Experimentation Group, at Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster Garrison (a developmental command, overseen by HQ 1st AI Bde)Hannah King 28 July 2020 Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops https://www.forces.net/news/catterick-study-assess-how-army-base-can-welcome-3500-extra-troops 2020-07-29 Forces Network en21 September 2017 Presentation by the Master of Signals https://royalsignals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20170921-Master-of-Signals-Presentation.pdf dead https://web.archive.org/web/20200519111435/https://royalsignals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20170921-Master-of-Signals-Presentation.pdf 19 May 2020 8 July 2020 royalsignals.orgCharlotte Cross 25 November 2015 How Will The Army's New 'Strike Brigades' Work? https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/how-will-armys-new-strike-brigades-work 2020-07-29 Forces Network enCharlotte Cross 23 November 2015 #SDSR2015: 5,000-Strong 'Strike Brigades' To Be Created By 2025 https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/sdsr2015-5000-strong-strike-brigades-be-created-2025 2020-07-29 Forces Network en 14 October 2020 Strike Experimentation Group https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/691835/response/1657084/attach/3/20201014%20FOI10459%20Arbeely%20Response%20Letter%20ArmySec.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 15 October 2020 whatdotheyknow.com whatdotheyknow I can advise that no units have been or will be assigned to the Strike Experimentation Group 11 December 2017 Strike Experimentation Group https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-12-06/117878 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20201019144743/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-12-06/117878 19 October 2020 19 October 2020 questions-statements.parliament.uk UK Hansard The Strike Experimentation Group (SEG) was established in Warminster in April 2017 and is part of the headquarters of 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade Household Cavalry Regiment (HCR), at Ward Barracks, Bulford Garrison2019-05-18 Household Cavalry parade marks departure for Bulford. • the Military Times https://www.themilitarytimes.co.uk/news/household-cavalry-parade-marks-departure-for-bulford/ 21 March 2021 5 December 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201205101120/https://www.themilitarytimes.co.uk/news/household-cavalry-parade-marks-departure-for-bulford/ deadHousehold Cavalry https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/royal-armoured-corps/household-cavalry/ 2020-10-25 www.army.mod.uk en-GB (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicles)Army/Sec/21/04/FOI2017/02130/78471 https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615377/2017-02130.pdf 21 June 2017 www.gov.uk UK Army Secretariat Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) (RL), at Cambrai Barracks, Catterick GarrisonOrder of Battle is and basing arrangements are for 12th Mechanized Brigade https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-04-24/71816 live https://web.archive.org/web/20211125160616/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-04-24/71816 25 November 2021 2020-12-24 questions-statements.parliament.uk en (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles)10 March 2017 Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf live 29 July 2020 Parliament Publishing Services https://web.archive.org/web/20180615140804/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf 15 June 2018 The Royal Lancers have shown their ability to adapt to any task and operate at reach #strikeethos https://twitter.com/1armdinf/status/1332081440138407939 live https://web.archive.org/web/20201126215932/https://twitter.com/1ArmdInf/status/1332081440138407939 26 November 2020 2020-12-03 Twitter en 1st Battalion, Scots Guards (1 SG), at Mons Barracks, Aldershot Garrison22 November 2018 Written Question for the Ministry of Defence regarding Army basing and personnel https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-11-22/194616 live 18 February 2021 UK Parliament https://web.archive.org/web/20200915161827/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-11-22/194616 15 September 2020 Winter 2020 The Garrison: Aldershot Garrison, Home of the British Army Issue #7: Winter 2020 https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=7606b2b7-60ea-41a9-9272-f39eb9dccc2d 18 March 2021 (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)Fallon Michael 15 December 2016 Strategic Defence and Security Review – Army: Written statement – HCWS367 http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-12-15/HCWS367/ 16 December 2016 Hansardhttp://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf Regular Army basing matrix by formation and unit Army Families Federation https://web.archive.org/web/20160814181412/http://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf 2016-08-14pages 21 22 http://www.forcespublishing.co.uk/flipbooks/Royal%20Welsh/index.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20160105022811/http://forcespublishing.co.uk/flipbooks/Royal%20Welsh/index.html 2016-01-05 2016-02-03 The Highlanders, 4th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), at Bourlon Barracks, CatterickThe Red Hackle November 2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20140507012143/http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/index/cms-filesystem-action/rh/trh_35_nov_2012.pdf 7 May 2014 (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)Hannah King, 4 SCOTS Return to Work in Catterick after Afghanistan Deployment 3 December 2020. Forces News. Retrieved 3 December 2020. 3rd Battalion, The Rifles (3 RIFLES),3_rifles 1362435836755730433 18 February 2021 We've been developing the mounted mindset in B Company this week, training with the MASTIFF vehicle in the rural and urban terrain 20 February 2021 at Dreghorn Barracks, EdinburghThe Rifles and The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Newsletter 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20130727183131/http://www.rgbw-association.org.uk/newsletter2013.pdf July 27, 2013 (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)3 RIFLES https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/infantry/rifles/3-rifles/ 2020-12-03 www.army.mod.uk en-GB Future Soldier On 1 July, under the Future Soldier programme, the brigade merged with 1st Artillery Brigade to form 1st Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team. Jane's reported that the brigade was disbanded in early July 2022. The Household Cavalry and Royal Lancers were transferred to the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade, and three of the brigade's infantry battalions and the small support subunits were reassigned "to other brigades".UK disbands armoured infantry brigade 2 August 2022 https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/uk-disbands-armoured-infantry-brigade Tim Ripley ar, en, ja 4 March 2023 Janes Brigade commanders The following officers have commanded the brigade:http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf III: Senior Army Appointments: 1860– Colin Mackie 223 gulabin.com June 2015 26 July 2015 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf 5 July 2015 Becke Major A. F. 1st Pub. 1935 1988 Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions HMSO London 1-871167-09-4 34 First World War Brigadier-General F. I. Maxse (At mobilization) Brigadier-General C. Fitzclarence (26 September 1914) Colonel D. L. MacEwen (12 November 1914 - acting) Brigadier-General H. C. Lowther (23 November 1914) Brigadier-General A. J. Reddie (23 August 1915) Brigadier-General J. R. M. Minshull-Ford (18 October 1917) Brigadier-General C. J. C. Grant (21 October 1917) Lieutenant-Colonel Sir T. W. H. J. Erskine, Bt. (29 March 1918 - acting) Brigadier-General W. B. Thornton (3 April 1918) Brigadier-General L. L. Wheatley (22 September 1918) Second World War Brigadier Merton Beckwith-Smith (until 31 May 1940, again from 3 June 1940 until 14 July 1940) Lieutenant Colonel L. Bootle-Wilbraham (acting, from 31 May 1940 until 3 June 1940) Brigadier F.A.V. Copland-Griffiths (from 14 July 1940 until 14 April 1943) Brigadier S.A. Forster (from 14 April 1943 until 24 July 1943) Brigadier Philip Gregson-Ellis (from 24 July 1943 until 18 January 1944) Lieutenant Colonel A.G.W. Heber-Percy (acting, from 18 January 1944 until 3 February 1944) Brigadier J.C. Haydon (from 3 February 1944 until 29 July 1944) Brigadier C.A.M.D. Scott (from 29 July 1944 until 21 January 1945, again from 13 February 1945 until 11 March 1945) Lieutenant Colonel E.J.B. Nelson (acting, from 21 January 1945 until 13 February 1945) Brigadier Gerald Lloyd-Verney (from 11 March 1945) Post-war Brigadier Rodney Moore 1946–1947 Brigadier George Johnson 1947–1949 Brigadier George Gordon-Lennox 1952–1954 Brigadier John McColl 1997–1999 Brigadier Jonathon Riley 1999–2000 Brigadier Simon Mayall 2001–2002 Brigadier Rupert Jones 2012–2014 Brigadier William Wright 2014–2016 Brigadier Zachary Stenning 2016–2018 Brigadier James Martin 2018–2020 Brigadier Samuel L. Humphris MBE 2020–2022 (Final Commander before the Brigade's disbandment, see 3rd Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade) References Sources Joslen, Lt-Col H.F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. 978-1-84342-474-1. 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