1st Armoured Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

Following the end of the Second Boer War in 1902, the army was restructured and the 1st Guards Brigade was established permanently as part of the 1st Division in the 1st Army Corps, stationed at Aldershot Garrison.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence – The 1st Army Corps|date=7 October 1902 |page=8 |issue=36892}}

Initially designated as the 1st (Guards) Brigade, the brigade was part of 1st Division during the First World War. Upon creation of the Guards Division in August 1915, the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards and 1st Battalion, Scots Guards moved to 2nd Guards Brigade, and the brigade was redesignated as the 1st Brigade. It was with the 1st Division on the Western Front throughout the war. It saw action at the Battle of Mons and subsequent Great Retreat, the First Battle of the Marne, the First Battle of the Aisne, the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of Loos, the Battle of Aubers Ridge, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Passchendaele, the Battle of Pozières and the Battle of Épehy, part of the final Hundred Days Offensive, which broke the back of the German Army, leading to an Armistice.{{cite web |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/History_1Mech_Bde.pdf |title=History of 1st Mechanized Brigade |work=British Army |year=2015 |access-date=26 July 2015}}

The brigade was composed as follows during the war:{{cite web |url=http://www.1914-1918.net/1div.htm |title=The British 1st Division in 1914–1918 |first=Chris |last=Baker|work=1914-1918.net |access-date=26 July 2015}}

• 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards (until August 1915)
• 1st Battalion, Scots Guards (until August 1915)
• 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
• 2nd Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (until August 1914)
• 1st Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (from September 1914)
• 1/14th Battalion, London Regiment (from November 1914, left February 1916)
• 10th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (from August 1915, disbanded February 1918)
• 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment (from August 1915, left February 1918)
• 1st Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 26 January 1916, moved to 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 28 February 1918)
• 1st Trench Mortar Battery (formed 27 November 1915)
• 1st Battalion, Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (from February 1918)

Remaining active during the interwar period as the 1st (Guards) Brigade, the brigade, still part of the 1st Infantry Division, was sent to France in September 1939 during the Second World War as part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and it later took part in the Battle of France in May–June 1940 and the subsequent Battle of Dunkirk and were evacuated to England, spending the next few years on home defence anticipating a German invasion of England.

File:The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France 1939-1940 O1782.jpg reviews the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards at Bachy, France, December 1939.]]

On 11 April 1942, the brigade was redesignated and reorganised as 1st Independent Brigade Group (Guards), with its own support units, until August when it was transferred to the 78th Infantry Division. In late 1942, it took part in the North African Campaign in Operation Torch: the Allied landings in French North Africa, arriving in Algiers in November 1942.

The brigade participated in the Run for Tunis and was transferred to the 6th Armoured Division in early 1943 and saw action in the Tunisia Campaign at the Battle of Fondouk, Battle of El Kourzia and Battle of Tunis in April and May 1943. Subsequently, the 1st (Guards) Brigade served on the Italian Front for the rest of the war under command of various divisions, seeing action in the Battle of Monte Cassino (where the brigade played a holding "hinge" role during Operation Diadem) and the Battle of Liri Valley in May 1944. The brigade then fought on the Gothic Line and in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy.

The 1st (Guards) Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:Joslen, p. 225

• 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards
• 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards
• 2nd Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (until 1 June 1941, rejoined 10 September 1941 until 25 November 1942, rejoined 18 February 1943, left finally 22 February 1943)
• 1st Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (disbanded 31 December 1940)
• 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (from 25 December 1942 until 16 February 1943)
• 3rd Battalion, Welsh Guards (from 1 March 1943)
• 1st Battalion, Welch Regiment (from 9 March 1945 until 29 June 1945)

Between 11 April 1942 and 7 August 1942 the following units formed the 1st Independent Brigade Group (Guards):

• 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
• 1st Independent Brigade Group Machine Gun Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers
• 1st Independent Brigade Group Reconnaissance Company, Reconnaissance Corps
• 17th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
• 204th (Oban) Anti-tank Battery, Royal Artillery (from 11 April to 7 August 1942)
• 136th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery
• 214th Field Company, Royal Engineers
• 1st Independent Brigade Group Company, Royal Army Service Corps
• 152nd Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
• 1st Independent Brigade Group Ordnance Company, Royal Army Service Corps

After the War, the brigade, having lost its 'Guards' title, was transferred to Palestine for internal security duties and then to Egypt for a few months before going back to Palestine in April 1946. Two years later, as the British mandate over Palestine ended, the brigade and division returned to Egypt. In October 1951, British forces pulled out of Egypt outside of the Suez Canal Zone, and later the brigade returned to the United Kingdom, though it was in Cyprus during the EOKA insurgency for a period in 1957–8. In 1968 the dispatch of the entire 3rd Infantry Division began to be planned, as part of the United Kingdom Mobile Force, to reinforce Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT).CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE, [http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/rep/PRO/DEFE/5/194/DEFE-5-194-28.html UNITED KINGDOM MOBILE FORCE DEPLOYMENT TO NORTHERN EUROPEAN COMMAND (JUTLAND/SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN) PART 1 OF JOINT THEATRE PLAN (JTP) NATO 70 - OPERATION GRACIE], 27 December 1972. By the mid-1980s the British Army force earmarked as part of the UKMF to reinforce LANDJUT had shrunk to the 1st Infantry Brigade, as it had become.

In 1991 just before the end of the Cold War, the brigade's structure was as follows.

1st (United Kingdom Mobile Force) Infantry Brigade, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth CampBritish Army Master Order of Battle, 1991.

• Headquarters 1st Infantry Brigade and 215 Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth Camp
• United Kingdom Mobile Force Battle Casualty Replacements Group
• 601 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control)
• 602 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control)
• 610 Tactical Air Control Post (Forward Air Control) — RAF personnel
• 13th/18th (Queen Mary's Own) Royal Hussars, at Assaye Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Armoured Reconnaissance, 1 Sqn detached to AMF (L))
• C Squadron, Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own), at Bhurtpore Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Armoured)
• 1st Battalion, Queen's Regiment, at Mooltan Barracks, Tidworth Camp (Mechanised)
• 1st Battalion, Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, at Kiwi Barracks, Bulford (Mechanised)
• 1st Battalion, The Light Infantry, at Lucknow Barracks, Tidworth (Mechanised)
• 26th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island (Field Artillery)
• 22nd Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers, at Swinton Barracks, Perham Down
• 66 Transport Squadron, Royal Corps of Transport, at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth
• 158 Provost Company, Royal Military Police, at Bulford Camp
• No. 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps, at AAC Netheravon

After the end of the Cold War, the brigade was reassigned to the new 3rd (UK) Division and subsequently became a Mechanised Brigade. In 1996, it was deployed to the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, with Multi-National Division (South-West); in 2000, it was deployed to Sierra Leone and, in 2002, to Kosovo.

The brigade was deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Herrick XVIII.{{cite web |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/29028.aspx |title=1 Armoured Infantry Brigade |work=Ministry of Defence |access-date=26 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327151841/http://www.army.mod.uk/structure/29028.aspx |archive-date=27 March 2017 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} It was deployed again in 2014, commanded by Brigadier Rupert Jones.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24470368|title=Commander praises UK troops as final major Afghan deployment begins|publisher=BBC|date=10 October 2013|access-date=15 August 2015}}

Under Army 2020, it was renamed as 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade and remained at Tidworth Camp, forming part of the Reaction Force as part of the 3rd (UK) Division.{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/136406/regular_army_basing_plan.pdf |title=Regular Army Basing Plan |work=Ministry of Defence |date=5 March 2013 |access-date=26 July 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report_v2.pdf|title=Army 2020 report |work=British Army |date=July 2013 |access-date=26 July 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Transforming the British Army - An Update |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610215557/http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Army2020_Report.pdf |archive-date=2014-06-10 |access-date=2022-08-02 }} Under the programme the Brigade consisted of the following units:

• 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison.
• Household Cavalry Regiment, at Ward Barracks, Bulford Garrison (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicles)
• The Royal Tank Regiment, at Tidworth Garrison
• 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Infantry, equipped with Warrior IFV)
• 1st Battalion, Mercian Regiment, at Tidworth Garrison (Armoured Infantry, equipped with Warrior IFV)
• 4th Battalion, The Rifles, at Aldershot (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)

Under the Army 2020 Refine programme, the 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade was due to form up as the first of two Strike Brigades by 2021.{{cite web |url=https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2017-12-06/117878/|title=Strike Experimentation Group:Written question - 117878 |work=British Army |date=6 December 2017 |access-date=12 November 2018}}{{Cite web |first=Hannah |last=King |date=28 July 2020|title=Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops|url=https://www.forces.net/news/catterick-study-assess-how-army-base-can-welcome-3500-extra-troops|access-date=2020-07-29|website=Forces Network|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=10 March 2017|title=Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf|access-date=29 July 2020|website=Parliament Publishing Services}} The Brigade then consisted of the following units:{{Cite web|date=10 March 2017|title=Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf|access-date=29 July 2020|website=Parliament Publishing Services}}

• 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade, at Delhi Barracks, Tidworth Garrison (to become 1st Strike Brigade in 2021).{{Cite web|title=1 Armoured Infantry Brigade|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/formations-divisions-brigades/3rd-united-kingdom-division/1-armoured-infantry-brigade/|access-date=2020-10-25|website=www.army.mod.uk|language=en-GB}}
• Strike Experimentation Group, at Battlesbury Barracks, Warminster Garrison (a developmental command, overseen by HQ 1st AI Bde){{Cite web |author=Hannah King |date=28 July 2020 |title=Plans For Catterick Garrison Redevelopment Ahead Of Arrival Of 3,500 Extra Troops |url=https://www.forces.net/news/catterick-study-assess-how-army-base-can-welcome-3500-extra-troops |access-date=2020-07-29 |website=Forces Network |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=21 September 2017 |title=Presentation by the Master of Signals |url=https://royalsignals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20170921-Master-of-Signals-Presentation.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519111435/https://royalsignals.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/20170921-Master-of-Signals-Presentation.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2020 |access-date=8 July 2020 |website=royalsignals.org}}{{Cite web |author=Charlotte Cross |date=25 November 2015 |title=How Will The Army's New 'Strike Brigades' Work? |url=https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/how-will-armys-new-strike-brigades-work |access-date=2020-07-29 |website=Forces Network |language=en}}{{Cite web |author=Charlotte Cross |date=23 November 2015 |title=#SDSR2015: 5,000-Strong 'Strike Brigades' To Be Created By 2025 |url=https://www.forces.net/services/tri-service/sdsr2015-5000-strong-strike-brigades-be-created-2025 |access-date=2020-07-29 |website=Forces Network |language=en}}{{cite web |author= |date=14 October 2020 |title=Strike Experimentation Group |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/691835/response/1657084/attach/3/20201014%20FOI10459%20Arbeely%20Response%20Letter%20ArmySec.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1 |access-date=15 October 2020 |website=whatdotheyknow.com |publisher=whatdotheyknow |quote=I can advise that no units have been or will be assigned to the Strike Experimentation Group}}{{cite web |author= |date=11 December 2017 |title=Strike Experimentation Group |url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-12-06/117878 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019144743/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-12-06/117878 |archive-date=19 October 2020 |access-date=19 October 2020 |website=questions-statements.parliament.uk |publisher=UK Hansard |quote=The Strike Experimentation Group (SEG) was established in Warminster in April 2017 and is part of the headquarters of 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade}}
• Household Cavalry Regiment (HCR), at Ward Barracks, Bulford Garrison{{Cite web|date=2019-05-18|title=Household Cavalry parade marks departure for Bulford. • the Military Times|url=https://www.themilitarytimes.co.uk/news/household-cavalry-parade-marks-departure-for-bulford/|access-date=21 March 2021|archive-date=5 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205101120/https://www.themilitarytimes.co.uk/news/household-cavalry-parade-marks-departure-for-bulford/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|title=Household Cavalry|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/royal-armoured-corps/household-cavalry/|access-date=2020-10-25|website=www.army.mod.uk|language=en-GB}} (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicles){{cite web|title=Army/Sec/21/04/FOI2017/02130/78471|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/615377/2017-02130.pdf|access-date=21 June 2017|website=www.gov.uk|publisher=UK Army Secretariat}}
• Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) (RL), at Cambrai Barracks, Catterick Garrison{{Cite web|date=|title=Order of Battle is and basing arrangements are for 12th Mechanized Brigade|url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-04-24/71816|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125160616/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2017-04-24/71816 |archive-date=25 November 2021 |access-date=2020-12-24|website=questions-statements.parliament.uk|language=en}} (Armoured Cavalry, equipped with FV107 Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles){{cite web|date=5 July 2012|title=9th/12th Charitable Association Website|url=http://delhispearman.org.uk/notice-of-regimental-amalgamation-5thjuly-2012/|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505152240/http://delhispearman.org.uk/notice-of-regimental-amalgamation-5thjuly-2012/|archive-date=5 May 2013|access-date=2013-03-13|publisher=Delhispearman.org.uk}}{{Cite web |date=10 March 2017|title=Information on the Army 2020 refine exercise |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf|url-status=live|access-date=29 July 2020|website=Parliament Publishing Services|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180615140804/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/632554/2017-02130.pdf |archive-date=15 June 2018 }}{{Cite web|date=|title=The Royal Lancers have shown their ability to adapt to any task and operate at reach #strikeethos|url=https://twitter.com/1armdinf/status/1332081440138407939|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126215932/https://twitter.com/1ArmdInf/status/1332081440138407939 |archive-date=26 November 2020 |access-date=2020-12-03|website=Twitter|language=en}}
• 1st Battalion, Scots Guards (1 SG), at Mons Barracks, Aldershot Garrison{{Cite web |date=22 November 2018|title=Written Question for the Ministry of Defence regarding Army basing and personnel|url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-11-22/194616|url-status=live|access-date=18 February 2021|publisher=UK Parliament|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200915161827/https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2018-11-22/194616 |archive-date=15 September 2020 }}{{Cite web| date=Winter 2020|title=The Garrison: Aldershot Garrison, Home of the British Army |issue= Issue #7: Winter 2020 |url=https://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=7606b2b7-60ea-41a9-9272-f39eb9dccc2d|access-date=18 March 2021 }} (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles){{cite web|last=Fallon|first=Michael|date=15 December 2016|title=Strategic Defence and Security Review – Army: Written statement – HCWS367|url=http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2016-12-15/HCWS367/|access-date=16 December 2016|publisher=Hansard}}{{citation |url=http://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf |title= Regular Army basing matrix by formation and unit |publisher= Army Families Federation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814181412/http://www.aff.org.uk/linkedfiles/aff/latest_news_information/cregulararmybasingannouncementgridunclas.pdf|archive-date=2016-08-14}}{{Cite web|title=pages 21 22|url=http://www.forcespublishing.co.uk/flipbooks/Royal%20Welsh/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105022811/http://forcespublishing.co.uk/flipbooks/Royal%20Welsh/index.html|archive-date=2016-01-05|access-date=2016-02-03}}
• The Highlanders, 4th Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS), at Bourlon Barracks, Catterick[http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/index/cms-filesystem-action/rh/trh_35_nov_2012.pdf The Red Hackle November 2012] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140507012143/http://www.theblackwatch.co.uk/index/cms-filesystem-action/rh/trh_35_nov_2012.pdf|date=7 May 2014}} (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles)Hannah King, [https://www.forces.net/news/4-scots-return-work-catterick-after-afghanistan-deployment 4 SCOTS Return to Work in Catterick after Afghanistan Deployment] 3 December 2020. Forces News. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
• 3rd Battalion, The Rifles (3 RIFLES),{{Cite tweet |user=3_rifles |number=1362435836755730433 |date=18 February 2021 |title=We've been developing the mounted mindset in B Company this week, training with the MASTIFF vehicle in the rural and urban terrain |location= |access-date=20 February 2021 }} at Dreghorn Barracks, Edinburgh[http://www.rgbw-association.org.uk/newsletter2013.pdf The Rifles and The Royal Gloucestershire,Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment Newsletter 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727183131/http://www.rgbw-association.org.uk/newsletter2013.pdf|date=July 27, 2013}} (Mechanised Infantry, equipped with Mastiff protected mobility vehicles){{Cite web|title=3 RIFLES|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/infantry/rifles/3-rifles/|access-date=2020-12-03|website=www.army.mod.uk|language=en-GB}}

On 1 July under the Future Soldier programme, the brigade merged with 1st Artillery Brigade to form 1st Deep Recce Strike Brigade Combat Team.

Jane's reported that the brigade was disbanded in early July 2022. The Household Cavalry and Royal Lances were transferred to the 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade, and three of the brigade's infantry battalions and the small support subunits were reassigned "to other brigades."{{cite web|title=UK disbands armoured infantry brigade |date=2 August 2022 |url=https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/uk-disbands-armoured-infantry-brigade |first=Tim |last=Ripley |language=ar, en, ja |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=Janes}}

The following officers have commanded the brigade:{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |title=III: Senior Army Appointments: 1860– |first=Colin |last=Mackie |page=223 |work=gulabin.com |date=June 2015 |access-date=26 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705211343/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Army%20Commands%201900-2011.pdf |archive-date=5 July 2015 }}{{cite book |last=Becke |first=Major A. F. |year=1935 |title=Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions |publisher=HMSO |location=London |isbn=1-871167-09-4|page=34}}

• Brigadier-General F. I. Maxse (At mobilization)
• Brigadier-General C. Fitzclarence (26 September 1914)
• Colonel D. L. MacEwen (12 November 1914 - acting)
• Brigadier-General H. C. Lowther (23 November 1914)
• Brigadier-General A. J. Reddie (23 August 1915)
• Brigadier-General J. R. M. Minshull-Ford (18 October 1917)
• Brigadier-General C. J. C. Grant (21 October 1917)
• Lieutenant-Colonel Sir T. W. H. J. Erskine, Bt. (29 March 1918 - acting)
• Brigadier-General W. B. Thornton (3 April 1918)
• Brigadier-General L. L. Wheatley (22 September 1918)

• Brigadier Merton Beckwith-Smith (until 31 May 1940, again from 3 June 1940 until 14 July 1940)
• Lieutenant Colonel L. Bootle-Wilbraham (acting, from 31 May 1940 until 3 June 1940)
• Brigadier F.A.V. Copland-Griffiths (from 14 July 1940 until 14 April 1943)
• Brigadier S.A. Forster (from 14 April 1943 until 24 July 1943)
• Brigadier Philip Gregson-Ellis (from 24 July 1943 until 18 January 1944)
• Lieutenant Colonel A.G.W. Heber-Percy (acting, from 18 January 1944 until 3 February 1944)
• Brigadier J.C. Haydon (from 3 February 1944 until 29 July 1944)
• Brigadier C.A.M.D. Scott (from 29 July 1944 until 21 January 1945, again from 13 February 1945 until 11 March 1945)
• Lieutenant Colonel E.J.B. Nelson (acting, from 21 January 1945 until 13 February 1945)
• Brigadier Gerald Lloyd-Verney (from 11 March 1945)

• Brigadier Rodney Moore 1946–1947
• Brigadier George Johnson 1947–1949
• Brigadier George Gordon-Lennox 1952–1954
• Brigadier John McColl 1997–1999
• Brigadier Jonathon Riley 1999–2000
• Brigadier Simon Mayall 2001–2002
• Brigadier Rupert Jones 2012–2014
• Brigadier William Wright 2014–2016
• Brigadier Zachary Stenning 2016–2018
• Brigadier James Martin 2018–2020
• Brigadier Samuel L. Humphris MBE 2020–2022 (Final Commander before the Brigade's disbandment, see 1st Deep Reconnaissance Strike Brigade Combat Team)

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• Joslen, Lt-Col H.F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. {{ISBN|978-1-84342-474-1}}.

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