84th Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 84th Brigade was a formation of the British Army. It was originally formed from regular army battalions serving away from home in the British Empire. It was assigned to the 28th Division and served on the Western Front and the Macedonian Front during the First World War. The Brigade was temporarily attached to the 5th Division between March and April 1915.
Formation
The infantry battalions did not all serve at once, but all were assigned to the brigade during the war.[1]
- 2nd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
- 1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
- 1st Battalion, Welsh Regiment
- 1/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion, Welsh Regiment
- 1/1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment
- 1/12th Battalion, London Regiment
- 84th Machine Gun Company
- 84th SAA Section Ammunition Column
- 84th Trench Mortar Battery
General Officers Commanding
- Brigadier-General Louis Bols, 1915.[2]
gollark: It's that you apparently don't care about the rest of the human population? At all?
gollark: So now we're going to talk about teleporters! Do they violate the no-cloning theorem?
gollark: What teleporter? I never mentioned a teleporter.
gollark: * kHt
gollark: 200 *times*, right?
References
- "28th Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- 'Allenby: Soldier & Statesman', by Archibald Wavell (Pub. White Lion, 1974).
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