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54th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

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passing through a French village on its way to the line, sometime in 1916. The officer at the head of his platoon is Lieutenant Douglas Keep, who was killed in action the following year.
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David Isby and Charles Kamps Jr., Armies of NATO's Central Front, Jane's Publishing Company, 1985
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The 54th Infantry Brigade, 1914–1918; Some Records of Battle and Laughter in France
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4th Battalion, Yorkshire Volunteers (TA) - Light Role Reserve Infantry Battalion
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of the Japanese for the next three years in harsh and degrading treatment.
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The brigade was disbanded in 1919 after the war. Reformed in 1939 in the
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11th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
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The 54th Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:
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The 54th Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:
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The brigade was originally raised in September 1914, as the
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A platoon of 'D' Company of the 7th (Service) Battalion,
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Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II
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on home defence and training duties, anticipating a
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British infantry brigades of the Second World War (
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Index

United Kingdom
British Army
Infantry
Brigade
18th (Eastern) Division
18th Infantry Division
Prince William of Gloucester Barracks
Grantham
William Heneker
Herbert Shoubridge
infantry
brigade
British Army
First
Second World Wars

Bedfordshire Regiment
Kitchener's New Armies
18th (Eastern) Division
Western Front
Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
Royal Sussex Regiment
Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
Northamptonshire Regiment
Bedfordshire Regiment
Machine Gun Corps
Territorial Army
18th Infantry Division
Second World War
United Kingdom

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