1st Reconnaissance Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 1st Reconnaissance Brigade was a short-lived specialist formation of the British Army which administered the formation reconnaissance regiments not attached to a division or brigade, and was disbanded in 2010.

1st Reconnaissance Brigade
Brigade TRF
ActiveBefore 1998–2010
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeReconnaissance Formation
RoleCommanding the Formation Reconnaissance regiments un-attached to divisions or brigades
SizeBrigade
Part ofHeadquarters Theatre Troops[1]
Brigade HeadqurtNetheravon
Nickname(s)1 Recce Brigade
EngagementsOperation Telic
Operation Herrick
Insignia
Other TRF (dark colour)

History

The 1st Reconnaissance Brigade was formed sometime before 1999 to oversee the formation reconnaissance regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps not attached to a division or brigade while the similarly unattached artillery regiments come under either 1st Artillery Brigade or 7th Air Defence Brigade. Until the formation of HQ Theatre Troops, the brigade sat under operational command of the 1st (United Kingdom) Armoured Division during peacetime. If mobilised, the brigade would augment Reconnaissance Brigade, HQ Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, and control the three armoured reconnaissance regiments of said division.[2][3][4]

All of the formation reconnaissance regiments not attached to either 1st Armoured Division or 3rd Mechanised Division were grouped together under the administration of the 1st Reconnaissance Brigade, while the similarly unattached artillery regiments come under either 1st Artillery Brigade or 7th Air Defence Brigade.[4]

Screening Force

Sometime after the publishing of the 1981 Defence White Paper "The Way Forward", the Screening Force (Corps Border Surveillance Force) was formed as an adhoc brigade within I (British) Corps. However, the three units assigned remained under the command of other headquarters in peacetime. The force's objective, if mobilised/Transition to war, was to hold off a Soviet frontal invasion for as long as possible until the 1st and 4th armoured divisions could be moved into position.[5] On mobilisation, the force would have consisted:[5]

In 1992 following the disbandment of the British Army of the Rhine, the force HQ was disbanded.

Footnotes
  1. "HQ Theatre Troops Organisation". army.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 8 November 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  2. Staff Officer's Handbook 1999, pp. Serial 7, Serial 26, Serial 173.
  3. "HQ Theatre Troops Organisation". army.mod.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2007. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
  4. Taken from archived wikipedia document & archived British Army documents.
  5. "BAOR Order of Battle July 1989" (PDF). orbat85.nl. p. 9. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  6. "British Army units from 1945 on - 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards". british-army-units1945on.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  7. "British Army units from 1945 on - 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers". british-army-units1945on.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  8. "British Army units from 1945 on - 664 Squadron". british-army-units1945on.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
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References
  • Ministry of Defence, Staff Officer's Handbook Number 71038, D/DGD&D/18/35/54, 1999.
  • James Tanner, The British Army since 2000, 2014 Osprey Publishing, Oxford, United Kingdom. ISBN 978 178200 593 3.
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