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    The 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army during the First World War and the Second World War. It was assigned to...
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  • 126th Brigade may refer to: 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade, a unit of the British Army during the First and Second World Wars 126th Coastal Defence Brigade...
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    (East Lancashire) Division, and the brigades were also numbered, becoming 125th (1/1st Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade, 126th (1/1st East Lancashire) Brigade...
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    attacks, at the cost of heavy casualties. Two brigades (the other being 126th (1/1st East Lancashire) Brigade) of 42nd Division attacked on the second day...
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    the 126th (East Lancashire) Infantry Brigade. Shortly afterwards, in 1939, the brigade was redesignated the 127th Infantry Brigade. The brigade was mobilised...
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  • 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade at Gallipoli, the 6th Mounted Brigade with the Western Frontier Force and later the 185th (2/1st West Riding) Brigade...
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    (East Lancashire) Division (callsign YDB) from 26 May, with the infantry brigades designated 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade (ZLE), 126th (East Lancashire)...
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    War, 259 infantry brigades were raised by the British Army, two by the Royal Navy, and one from the Royal Marines. Of these brigades, fifty-three were...
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  • the brigade had the following composition: 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment (left to join 103rd Brigade, 34th...
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    1/7th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 1/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade 1/4th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment 1/5th...
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  • Lawrence) 42nd (East Lancashire) Division 125th (Lancashire Fusiliers) Brigade 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade 127th (Manchester) Brigade 52nd (Lowland)...
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    to 74th Brigade in exchange for 10th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire Regiment 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment transferred to 75th Brigade in exchange...
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  • Lane in Salford. These four battalions formed the Lancashire Fusiliers Brigade, in the East Lancashire Division of the TF, on the eve of the First World...
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  • regiments. The 11th Armoured Brigade was formed from the redesignation of the 126th Infantry Brigade, part of 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division, on 1...
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  • transferred to the 126th (East Lancashire) Infantry Brigade, 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division. They were both replaced in the brigade by the 4th and...
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  • William Walter Seymour (category Rifle Brigade officers)
    Commanding the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division during the First World War. Seymour was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's...
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    although now serving with the 126th Machine Gun Company of the 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade, part of the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. Among the fellow...
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    5th Mounted Brigade, under the direct command of Lawrence, were joined on the railway by infantry in the 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade (42nd Division)...
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    The East Lancashire Royal Engineers was a Volunteer unit of Britain's Royal Engineers raised in Manchester in 1901. It became the engineer component of...
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  • Thumbnail for 2nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
    The 2nd Infantry Brigade (later 2 (South East) Brigade) was a regional brigade of the British Army, active since before the First World War. It was the...
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  • East Lancashire) Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw service during the First World War with the 66th (2nd East Lancashire)...
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    and the 4th and 5th battalions formed part of the East Lancashire Brigade of the East Lancashire Division. It was as part of that division that were...
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    became a brigade of the Royal Field Artillery in the Territorial Force in 1908, and served through the First World War with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division...
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  • Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, Bury 1/6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, Rochdale 1/8th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, Salford 126th Infantry Brigade Headquarters...
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  • Worthington, DSO, TD Lt-Col G.H. Wedgwood, DSO (promoted to command 126th (East Lancashire) Brigade 25 May 1918) Lt-Col T. Blatherwick, DSO, MC The 2/6th Bn was...
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  • Leonard Green (cricketer) (category East Lancashire Regiment officers)
    Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, and was promoted to lieutenant on 14 August 1913. The 4th Battalion served in the First World War as part of the 126th (East...
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    The Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army formed in January 1800 as the "Experimental Corps of Riflemen"...
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    Martel) III Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (Major-General William Holmes) 44th (Home Counties)...
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  • (Royal East Kent Regiment) from 133rd Infantry Brigade, 44th (Home Counties) Infantry Division, the 4th Border Regiment from 126th Infantry Brigade, 42nd...
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  • serving in 126th Infantry Brigade of 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division, which had fought in France and been evacuated at Dunkirk. The brigade and division...
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