1st Indian Infantry Brigade
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The 1st Indian Infantry Brigade was an Infantry formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in September 1939, in Abbottabad
in India. It was assigned to HQ Rawalpindi
District until May 1942, when it joined the 23rd Indian Infantry Division until the end of the war.
Abbottabad
Abbottabad is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. The city is situated in the Orash Valley, northeast of the capital Islamabad and east of Peshawar at an altitude of and is the capital of the Abbottabad District...
in India. It was assigned to HQ Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
District until May 1942, when it joined the 23rd Indian Infantry Division until the end of the war.
Formation
- 1/5th Gurkha Rifles to November 1940
- 2/6th Gurkha Rifles to April 1940
- 2/5th Gurkha Rifles February to December 1940 and January to June 1941
- 1/6th Gurkha Rifles April 1940 to February 1942
- 1st The Devonshire RegimentThe Devonshire RegimentThe Devonshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army which served under various titles from 1685 to 1958. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles.-Origin and titles:...
September 1940 to April 1941 - 1/7th Rajput Regiment7th Rajput RegimentThe 7th Rajput Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army moving away from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments...
October 1940 to September 1941 - 3/5th Gurkha Rifles October 1940 to March 1941
- 3/6th Gurkha Rifles October 1940 to March 1941
- 4/6th Gurkha Rifles March to October 1941
- 4/5th Gurkha Rifles March to October 1941
- 4/7th Gurkha Rifles March to October 1941
- 4/10th Gurkha Rifles March to October 1941
- 2nd Nepalese Infantry (Rifle Regiment) April 1941 to February 1942
- 1st Patiala Infantry April 1941 to August 1945
- 2nd The Suffolk Regiment June to September 1941
- 7/14th Punjab Regiment14th Punjab RegimentThe 14th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to the Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947, and amalgamated with the 1st, 15th and 16th Punjab Regiments in 1956, to form the Punjab Regiment....
February to April 1942 - 1st Assam RegimentAssam RegimentThe Assam Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army. The Regiment consists of 21 battalions; 14 regular units, three Rashtriya Rifles units, three infantry battalions of the Territorial Army and one battalion of Arunachal Scouts...
April 1942 to March 1944 - 1st Seaforth HighlandersSeaforth HighlandersThe Seaforth Highlanders was a historic regiment of the British Army associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders have varied in size from two battalions to seventeen battalions during the Great War...
May 1942 to August 1945 - 1/16th Punjab Regiment16th Punjab RegimentThe 16th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947, and amalgamated with the 1st, 14th and 15th Punjab Regiments in 1956 to form the Punjab Regiment....
February to October 1943 and December 1943 to August 1945 - 9/12th Frontier Force Regiment12th Frontier Force RegimentThe 12th Frontier Force Regiment was part of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922. It consisted of five regular battalions; numbered 1 to 5 and the 10th Battalion. During the Second World War a further ten battalions were raised. In 1945 the prenomial "12th" was dropped when the British...
February to April 1944 - Kalibahadur Regiment, NepalNepalNepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
May to August 1944 - 2/19th Hyderabad Regiment19th Hyderabad RegimentThe 19th Hyderabad Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed following the post World War I reforms of the Indian Army when they moved from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments...
June to July 1944 - 158th Field Artillery Regiment, Royal ArtilleryRoyal ArtilleryThe Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:...
February to April 1944