3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade

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3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade

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1939–1945

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|notable_commanders=Richard Turner
George Tuxford

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The 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade was a formation of the Canadian Army in both World War I and World War II. The brigade fought on the Western Front during the First World War, and in Sicily and Italy during the Second World War.

History

=World War I=

First formed on 29 August 1914, the brigade was initially made up from provisional battalions that were named after their province of origin, but these titles were replaced with numerals before the brigade arrived in Britain on 14 October 1914.{{Citation needed|date=November 2016}} On arrival in Britain, it consisted of four infantry battalions, numbered 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th.Nicholson, p. 22. As part of the 1st Canadian Division, the brigade fought in every major Canadian engagement on the Western Front between 1915 and 1918.{{Citation needed|date=November 2016}} Its first commander was Colonel Richard Turner. From March 1916 until the end of the war, the brigade was commanded by Brigadier-General George Tuxford.{{cite web |url=http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?Id=120476 |title=Brigadier-General George Stuart Tuxford |website=Canadian Great War Project |access-date=26 November 2016}}

After training on Salisbury Plain in late 1914, the brigade moved as part of the 1st Canadian Division to the Western Front.{{cite web |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/organization/fieldforces/1stdivision.htm |title=1st Canadian Division |website=Canadian Soldiers.com |access-date=26 November 2016}} During its deployment on the Western Front, the 3rd Brigade fought in the following battles and engagements on the Western Front:

1915:

Second Battle of Ypres
Battle of Gravenstafel: 22–23 April
Battle of St. Julien: 24 April – 4 May (see also Saint Julien Memorial)
Battle of Festubert: 15–25 May
Second Battle of Givenchy: 15–16 June

1916:

Battle of Mount Sorrel: 2–13 June
Battle of the Somme
Battle of Flers-Courcelette: 15–22 September
Battle of Thiepval: 26–28 September
Battle of Le Transloy: 1–18 October
Battle of the Ancre Heights: 1 October – 11 November

1917:

Battle of Vimy Ridge: 9–14 April
Battle of Arleux: 28–29 April
Third Battle of the Scarpe: 3–4 May (including the capture of Fresnoy)
Second Battle of Passchendaele: 26 October – 10 November

1918:

Battle of Amiens: 8–11 August
Actions round Damery: 15–17 August
Battle of the Scarpe: 26–30 August
Battle of Drocourt-Quéant: 2–3 September
Battle of the Canal du Nord: 27 September – 1 October
Battle of Cambrai: 8–9 October

=World War II=

During World War II the brigade, again as part of the 1st Canadian Division, participated in the Allied Invasion of Sicily and then later fought in the Italian campaign. It was demobilized for the second time at the end of the war.{{cite web |url=http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/organization/fieldforces/casf/1stdivision.htm |title=1st Canadian Infantry Division |website=Canadian Soldiers.com |access-date=26 November 2016}}

Order of battle

World War I{{cite web |url=http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/1st-canadian-division/ |title=1st Canadian Division |work=The Long, Long Trail |access-date=26 November 2016}}

13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), CEF (August 1914 – 11 November 1918)
14th Battalion (Royal Montreal Regiment), CEF (August 1914 – 11 November 1918)
15th Canadian Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada), CEF (August 1914 – 11 November 1918)
16th Canadian Battalion (The Canadian Scottish), CEF (August 1914 – 11 November 1918)

World War II{{cite web |url=http://army.ca/info/1div.php |title=1st Canadian Infantry Division Units: Sicily 1943 |website=Army.ca |access-date=26 November 2016}}

{{lang|fr|i=unset|Royal 22^e Régiment}}
1st Battalion, The Carleton and York Regiment
1st Battalion, The West Nova Scotia Regiment
3rd Infantry Brigade Ground Defence Platoon (Lorne Scots)

References

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{{cite book |last=Nicholson |first=G.W.L |title=Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919: Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War |year=2015 |orig-year=1962 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |location=Montreal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xq8HCwAAQBAJ&dq=3rd+canadian+brigade&pg=PA58 |isbn=9780773597907}}