Unit Name: | 1st Heavy Armoured Brigade 3rd Armoured Brigade |
Dates: | September 1939 – November 1943 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Type: | Armoured formation |
Role: | Armoured warfare |
Size: | Brigade |
1st Heavy Armoured Brigade | |
Date: | 1939 |
Parent: | 1st Armoured Division |
Subordinate: | 2nd Royal Tank Regiment 3rd Royal Tank Regiment 5th Royal Tank Regiment |
3rd Armoured Brigade | |
Date: | 1940 |
Parent: | 2nd Armoured Division |
Subordinate: | 1st King's Dragoon Guards 3rd (The King's Own) Hussars 6th Royal Tank Regiment 1st Regiment, RHA 1st Light AA Battery, RA Australian Field Regiment, RAA 1st Tower Hamlet Rifles 18th Australian Infantry Brigade Anti-tank Company Free French Motorized Battalion 4th Field Squadron, RE 3rd Armoured Brigade Company, RASC 3rd Light Field Ambulance |
The 3rd Armoured Brigade, before 14 April 1940 designated the 1st Heavy Armoured Brigade, was an armoured brigade of the British Army that saw service in the Second World War with the 1st Armoured Division and the 2nd Armoured Division in the North African Campaign. The brigade headquarters was disbanded on 11 January 1943.[1]
The 3rd Armoured Brigade: