Light Infantry Brigade [UK]

Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills

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Page created 5 February 2002. Corrected and updated 17.07.2005

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	Light Infantry Brigade
	United Kingdom


Titles & Lineage Units Insignia	Commandant Links Bibliography

See also British:

Depots:

Introduction Infantry 1834-1871 Infantry 1873-1881 Infantry 1946-present

Regiments and Corps:

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Formations:

Index of Home Commands	Index of Divisions
Index of Armies, Corps & Overseas Commands	Index of Brigades

Titles & Lineage

Index of Titles


	1946.10.28	J Group
	1948.07.14	Light Infantry Brigade
	1967.04.01	all T.A. battalions reduced as Light Infantry Volunteers
	1968.07.01	united with Green Jackets Brigade, to form The Light Division
	1968.07.10	all regular battalions united as *The Light Infantry*

Units



	*Regular Battalions:*
		1st Bn, The Somerset Light Infantry [1946-1959]
		2nd Bn, The Somerset Light Infantry [1946-1948]
		1st Bn, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [1946-1959]
		2nd Bn, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry [1946-1948]
	¹	1st Bn, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1946-1958]
		2nd Bn, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry [1946-1948]
		1st Bn, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1946-1968]
		2nd Bn, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1946-1948]
		1st Bn, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1946-1968]
		2nd Bn, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry [1946-1948]
		1st Bn, The Durham Light Infantry [1946-1968]
		2nd Bn, The Durham Light Infantry [1946-1948]
		1st Bn, The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry [1959-1968]

	*Territorial Battalions:*



	*Notes:*
		1. transferred 7 Nov. 1958 to Green Jackets Brigade

Insignia

Commandant




	Representative Colonel:
	1959?	Maj-Gen. William Reginald Cox, CB, DSO [KSLI]
	1963?	Maj-Gen. Cecil Llewellyn Firbank, CB, CBE, DSO, DL [SCLI]

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