Forester Brigade
F Group Midland Brigade Forester Brigade | |
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Active | 1946–1963 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Administrative |
The Forester Brigade (known as the Midland Brigade until 1958) was an administrative formation of the
After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter. The depots were territorially organised, and Infantry Depot F at Strensall was the headquarters for the county regiments of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire.[1]
In 1948, the depots adopted names and this depot became the Midland Brigade with all regiments being reduced to a single battalion at the same time. The Midland Brigade was formally formed on 14 July 1948, combining the depots of four regiments:[2]
- The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
- The Royal Lincolnshire Regiment
- The Royal Leicestershire Regiment
- The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
Under the 1957 Defence White Paper changes announced in July 1957, the infantry of the line was reorganised: accordingly, in 1958, the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment was transferred to the East Anglian Brigade and the Midland Brigade was renamed as the Forester Brigade.
From 1958 all regiments in the Brigade adopted a common cap badge: "A Maltese cross voided, the points pommelled, and thereon, on a mount, an antelope statant gorged with a ducal coronet and chained within The Garter, the whole encircled with a chaplet of oak-leaves issuant from a scroll inscribed 'Forester Brigade' and ensigned with, upon a mount, a tiger passant guardant. The badge combined parts of the cap badges of the Royal Warwicks, Royal Leicesters and Sherwood Foresters.[3] From 1960 the Forester Brigade was based at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire.[4]
In 1963, the Royal Warwickshire Regiment was transferred to the Fusilier Brigade, and in the following year the Royal Leicestershire Regiment joined the East Anglian Brigade[5] and the Sherwood Foresters moved to the Mercian Brigade. With this, the Forester Brigade was disbanded.
Units
During its existence, the brigade was made up of the following units:[6]
Regular battalions
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Territorial battalions
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References
- ISBN 9780850524222.
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack 1956, p. 471
- ^ A L Kipling and H L King, Head-dress badges of the British Army, Volume 2, London, 1979
- ^ "Infantry Brigade Depots (Location)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 7 March 1958. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ISBN 978-1848840355.
- ^ "Forester Brigade". Archived from the original on 1 January 2007. Retrieved 6 January 2021.