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    The Essex Brigade, later 161st Brigade and 161st Infantry Brigade, was a volunteer infantry formation of the British Army in existence from 1888 until...
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    the Essex Regiment. Under the mobilisation scheme proposed by the Stanhope Memorandum of 1888, they constituted the Essex Volunteer Infantry Brigade, which...
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  • brigades were numbered, the Essex Brigade becoming 161st (Essex) Brigade. The 2nd Line units were assigned to duplicate formations, the 2/6th Essex joining...
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    A new 3rd Essex AVC was formed at Plaistow on 26 June 1861, later moving to Stratford. No administrative brigade was formed for the Essex AVCs, which...
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    Hare) (less one brigade in the Suez Canal Defences) 161st (Essex) Brigade 162nd (East Midland) Brigade 163rd (Norfolk & Suffolk) Brigade 54th Divisional...
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    mounted yeomanry brigades. One of the divisions was the East Anglian Division. The infantry of the division was composed of the Essex, East Midland, and...
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  • half-pay, he succeeded Brigadier General Edward Bulfin in command of the Essex Brigade, part of the East Anglian Division. Shortly after the British entry...
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  • 206th (2nd Essex) Brigade was a formation of the British Army during World War I. It was raised as a 2nd-Line duplicate of the Essex Brigade of the Territorial...
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    based in Colchester, Essex. It makes up the Air Assault Task Force, a battlegroup held at high readiness, and is the only brigade in the British Army focused...
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    Essex Brigade (remainder of Essex Brigade hereafter separate lineages) Independent Essex Brigade redesignated 2 February 1858 as the Newark Brigade 1st...
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  • brigades were numbered, the Essex Brigade becoming 161st (Essex) Brigade. The 2nd Line units were assigned to duplicate formations, the 2/7th Essex joining...
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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 Essex Yeomanry was a Reserve unit of the British Army that originated in 1797 as local Yeomanry Cavalry Troops in Essex. Reformed after the experience...
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  • Major General) S. W. Hare 161st (Essex) Brigade 1/4th Essex Regiment 1/5th Essex Regiment 1/6th Essex Regiment 1/7th Essex Regiment 161st Machine Gun Company...
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    centre, the infantry brigade of Sir John Meldrum was drawn up on the left of the front line and Colonel Charles Essex's brigade on the right. Sir Thomas...
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    Brigade: 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment 5th Battalion, Royal Scots XV Brigade...
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    and one British Lewis gun. Two infantry companies of the Essex Regiment, 161st (Essex) Brigade, 54th (East Anglian) Division crossed the Hadrah bridge...
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    the Imperial Camel Brigade on their right. The 161st (Essex) Brigade formed a divisional reserve. The attack by the 162nd Brigade on the left was almost...
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    4th Reserve Cavalry Regiment in 1917. On 14 March 1918, Essex Yeomanry left 8th Cavalry Brigade to become a cyclist unit, then to form a machine gun battalion...
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    Infantry Brigade was converted into the 3rd Parachute Brigade on 7 November 1942, and its battalions were converted as follows: 10th Battalion, Essex Regiment...
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    while leading his brigade during Pickett's Charge. National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Virginia "Essex County, Virginia"....
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  • 31 Canadian Brigade Group (31 CBG; French: 31e Groupe-brigade du Canada) is part of the 4th Canadian Division, under the Canadian Army. It encompasses...
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    Regiment 8th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment 10th Battalion, The Essex Regiment The brigade left the division on 22 July 1941, joining XI Corps. United Kingdom...
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  • Mixed Brigade supplied 15th Essex to 177th (2/1st Lincoln and Leicester) Brigade and immediately raised a new 18th (Home Service) Battalion Essex Regiment...
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  • reorganized on February 19, 1776, as the Essex County Brigade, consisting of eight regiments. While the Essex County Brigade remained in Massachusetts service...
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    the brunt of the First Battle of Gaza where the three brigades, along with the 161st (Essex) Brigade of the 54th (East Anglian) Division, had to advance...
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    transferred to the Royal Field Artillery as the 2nd East Anglian Brigade, the East Anglian (Essex) Heavy Battery remained with the RGA. Both units continued...
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  • and expanded to form the Essex Brigade. Elements of the Essex Brigade were mustered into federal service during 1814. Essex County is in northeastern...
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  • Essex and Kent Scottish is a Primary Reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The regiment was formed in 1954 by the amalgamation of The Essex...
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  • By July 1916 the brigade was under the control of Northern Army of Home Forces, with the following units billeted across Essex: Brigade Headquarters: Maldon...
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