Lowland Brigade (United Kingdom)

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The Lowland Brigade is a historical unit of the British Army which has been formed a number of times. It is traditionally Scottish as the name derives from the Scottish Lowlands.

World War II

There was a Lowland Brigade (the 44th, part of the 15th Scottish Division) in World War II; it fought in the Normandy invasion, and in North-West Europe.

Administrative Brigade 1948–1968

After the

Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter. The depots were territorially organised, and Infantry Depot B was the headquarters for the Scottish lowland regiments.[1]

In 1948, the depots adopted names and this depot became the Lowland Brigade, with all regiments being reduced to a single regular battalion at the same time. The Lowland Brigade was reformed on 14 July 1948, merging the depots of the following regiments:[2]

Under the

Highland Brigade in 1958, and its amalgamation with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers on 20 January 1959.[3]

In 1958 the regiments adopted a common cap badge. This depicted the

St. Andrew, on which was superimposed a thistle within a circlet inscribed with motto of the Order of the Thistle, nemo me impune lacessit.[4] From 1960 the Lowland Brigade was based at Glencorse Barracks.[5]

The various

Territorial Battalions that were also part of the four Lowland Regiments were split off in 1967 and grouped together, eventually forming the 52nd Lowland Volunteers
.

The Brigade continued to administer the four regiments until 1968. On 14 May that year The Cameronians were disbanded, having chosen this option rather than amalgamation. On 1 July the Lowland Brigade was amalgamated with the Highland Brigade to form the Scottish Division.[6]

References

  1. ISBN 9780850524222
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  2. ^ Whitaker's Almanack 1956, p. 471
  3. ^ Army Order 95/1958
  4. ^ A L Kipling and H L King, Head-dress badges of the British Army, Volume 2, London, 1979
  5. ^ "Infantry Brigade Depots". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 9 July 1958. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
  6. ^ Whitaker's Almanack 1969, p. 473

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