The 3rd Indian Motor Brigade was formed in 1940 by the Indian Army during World War II. In 1941, the brigade was surrounded at Mechili by Axis forces during...
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31st Armoured Division (India) (redirect from Indian 2nd Armoured Brigade)
British Indian Army. When it was raised, it consisted of two Armoured Brigades (the 1st and 2nd Indian Armoured Brigades) and one Motor Brigade (the 3rd Indian...
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II. It was created in 1943, by the renaming of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade and instead of Indian cavalry regiments, it consisted of three Regular Army...
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vehicles and a cruiser tank, most of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, M Battery 1st Royal Horse Artillery, part of the 2/3rd Australian Anti-tank Regiment and elements...
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Brigade 3rd Indian Motor Brigade Alexandroni Brigade 3rd Brigade, Polish Legions 3rd Polish Infantry Brigade 3rd Mountain Brigade (Poland) 3rd Infantry...
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Group and the 3rd Armoured Brigade were stretched out, stuck in traffic west of Derna; Gambier-Parry and the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade had been surrounded...
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Armoured Division, 9th Australian Division, 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, 7th Support Group and 22nd Guards Brigade in combat with the Afrikakorps and Units...
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Armoured Brigade 3rd Indian Motor Brigade 10th Indian Motor Brigade 1st Indian Anti-Aircraft Brigade 2nd Indian Anti-Aircraft Brigade 3rd Indian Anti-Aircraft...
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and 26th Brigades), the 18th Brigade of the 7th Australian Division, four regiments of British artillery, and the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade. Between August...
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rear. The Ariete Division was held up for about an hour by the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade (7th Armoured Division), dug in about 3.7 mi (6 km) south-east...
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The 10th Indian Motor Brigade was a formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in Egypt in March 1942. The brigade left Egypt for...
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11th Cavalry and the 18th Cavalry, all part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade. The Indian Squadron was organized along ethnic and religious lines with the...
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which the 132nd Tank Infantry Regiment overran and destroyed the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade. On 15 June 1941, the depot of 4th Tank Infantry Regiment in Rome...
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Abhey Singh (category Use Indian English from July 2017)
Edward's Own Cavalry on 1 December 1941. His regiment was part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, which was fighting in the North African Campaign under General...
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then handed over to the Iraqi Air Force. 3rd Indian Motor Brigade was reformed as 43rd Lorried Infantry Brigade here in December 1942 – February 1943 during...
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Division) and Iraq (6th, 8th and 10th Infantry divisions). The 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, from the armoured division, was to go to Egypt; the formation...
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Army. The 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry, normally part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, held the line across from the Twin Pimples when it was decided...
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(Gatehouse) 7th Motor Brigade Group (James Renton) 3rd Indian Motor Brigade Group (Filose) 29th Indian Infantry Brigade Group (Denys Reid) from 5th Indian Infantry...
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31st Indian Armoured Division - Major-General Robert Wordsworth 3rd Indian Motor Brigade - Brigadier A.A.E. Filoze 252nd Indian Armoured Brigade - Brigadier...
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2nd Lancers, 11th Cavalry and the 18th Cavalry all part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade. It was originally formed to patrol the borders between the Soviet...
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251st Indian Tank Brigade was an armoured formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was to be formed in early 1940 as the 1st Indian Motor Brigade...
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The 255th Indian Tank Brigade was an armoured brigade of the Indian Army during World War II. It was part of the Fourteenth Army and saw action in the...
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that the New Zealand 2nd Division—with the remains of Indian 5th Division and 7th Motor Brigade under its command—would swing north to threaten the Axis...
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African brigades, were the 201st Guards (Motorised) Brigade, 11th Indian Infantry Brigade, 32nd Army Tank Brigade and the 4th Anti-Aircraft Brigade. Tobruk...
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18th Cavalry (India) (category British Indian Army cavalry regiments)
mechanised. It formed part of the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade, which was initially part of the 1st Indian Armoured Division. The brigade was detached from the division...
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the re designation of the 10th Indian Motor Brigade. The brigade served in Lebanon, Iraq and Persia with the 12th Indian Infantry Division. 1st Duke of...
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Brigadier Edward William Drummond VaughanCB DSO MC (1894—1953), 3rd Indian Motor Brigade Brigadier Gerald Birdwood Vaughan-Hughes (1896—1983) Brigadier...
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However north of Bir Hakeim, the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade had been annihilated, and two weakened British brigades - the 4th and the motorized 7th Armoured...
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consisted of the 22nd Armoured Brigade (Brigadier John Scott-Cockburn) consisting of the 2nd Royal Gloucestershire Hussars and the 3rd and 4th County of London...
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these areas using two battalions from 7th Motor Brigade. At 23:00 on 26 October 2 Battalion, The Rifle Brigade would attack Snipe and 2nd Battalion King's...
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