1st Reconnaissance Brigade

Former British Army unit Screening Force1st Reconnaissance Brigade 1997–2005/6; 1997 4 1 2006 1 1 United Kingdom United Kingdom Reconnaissance Formation Commanding the Formation Reconnaissance regiments attached to divisions Brigade Headquarters Theatre TroopsHQ Theatre Troops Organisation http://www2.army.mod.uk/unitsandorgs/majorhq/hq_th_tps/organisation.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070108161246/http://www2.army.mod.uk/unitsandorgs/majorhq/hq_th_tps/organisation.htm 8 January 2007 12 July 2020 army.mod.uk NetheravonMackinlay, p. 57. Brigade HQ The 1st Reconnaissance Brigade was a short-lived specialist formation of the British Army which administered the formation reconnaissance regiments not attached to a division or brigade, and was disbanded sometime between 2005 and 2006.Mackinlay, p. 57. thumb|A Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division, advances east into Kuwait from southern Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. Screening Force Sometime after the publishing of the 1981 Defence White Paper "The Way Forward", the Screening Force (Corps Border Surveillance Force) was formed as an ad hoc brigade within I (British) Corps. Brigadier Royal Armoured Corps, British Army of the Rhine would become 'Commander Screening Force' on mobilisation.Louis Vieuxbill BAOR Order of Battle July 1989 https://www.orbat85.nl/documents/BAOR-July-1989.pdf live https://web.archive.org/web/20140602010716/http://www.orbat85.nl/documents/BAOR-July-1989.pdf 2014-06-02 13 July 2020 orbat85.nl 9Alterfritz, p. 38. The force's objective, if mobilised, was to hold off a soviet frontal invasion for as long as possible until the 1st and 4th Armoured Divisions could be moved into position. If mobilised, the brigade would control al the units of the division in the reconnaissance role and providing a reconnaissance/screening force.Vieux-Bill Louis May 2021 British Army of the Rhine Order of Battle, July 1989 https://www.orbat85.nl/documents/BAOR-July-1989.pdf 8 June 2021 1985 Orders of Battle On mobilisation, the force would have consisted: Brigadier, I (BR) Corps Royal Armoured Corps (Commander Screening Force) Queen's Dragoon Guards, at Northampton Barracks, Wolfenbüttel (under command of 1st (UK) Armoured Division during peacetime)British Army units from 1945 on - 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-armoured-corps/queen-s-dragoon-guards.html 2020-07-13 british-army-units1945on.co.uk 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, Harewood Barracks, Herford (under command of 4th Armoured Division during peacetime)British Army units from 1945 on - 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-armoured-corps/16th-5th-the-queen-s-royal-lancers.html 2020-07-13 british-army-units1945on.co.uk No. 664 Squadron, Army Air Corps, at Saint George's Barracks, Minden (under command of Commander Aviation BAOR during peacetime)British Army units from 1945 on - 664 Squadron http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/army-air-corps/squadrons-3/664-squadron.html 2020-07-13 british-army-units1945on.co.uk In 1992 following the disbandment of the British Army of the Rhine, the force HQ was disbanded. thumb|A Scimitar Light Tank from the Black Watch is pictured during a firepower demonstration on Salisbury Plain. Reconnaissance Brigade The 1st Reconnaissance Brigade was established on 1 April 1997.Mackinlay, p. 57; https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C17017371 Unit historical record: Headquarters, 1st Reconnaissance Brigade 1 April 1997 The National Archives The National Archives, Kew, Surrey, United Kingdom The brigade might have been assigned to HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.Staff Officer's Handbook 1999, Serial 1-26-1. Following the 2003 reorganisation of the Army under 'LANDmark', HQ Theatre Troops was formed to oversee the specialist brigades of the army.HQ Theatre Troops Organisation http://www.army.mod.uk/unitsandorgs/majorhq/hq_th_tps/organisation.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20070108161246/http://www.army.mod.uk/unitsandorgs/majorhq/hq_th_tps/organisation.htm 8 January 2007 12 July 2020 army.mod.uk The brigade soon joined HQ Theatre Troops, which it would remain under until disbanding in 2005-06, following the Future Army Structure programme.Tanner 2009, p. 33.Mackinlay, p. 57. Footnotes References Ministry of Defence, Staff Officer's Handbook Number 71038, D/DGD&D/18/35/54, 1999. James Tanner, The British Army since 2000, 2014 Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom. 978 178200 593 3. Mackinlay Gordon Angus "A Moment in Time": The British Army at a moment in time - 1 July 2007: A look at and from it of the Makeup of the Regular and Territorial Army Self publish 2007 Category:Brigades of the British Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1997 Category:Army reconnaissance units and formations Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 2006