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55th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

Field	Value
unit_name	55th Brigade
55th Infantry Brigade
dates	1914–1919
1939–1942
country	United Kingdom
branch
type	Infantry
size	Brigade
command_structure	[18th (Eastern) Division](18th-eastern-division)
[18th Infantry Division](18th-infantry-division-united-kingdom)
battles	First World War
Second World War
notable_commanders	Lionel Sadleir-Jackson
Tim Massy-Beresford

55th Infantry Brigade 1939–1942 18th Infantry Division Second World War Tim Massy-Beresford The 55th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw active service in both the First and the Second World Wars.

First World War

The brigade was originally raised in 1914, as the 55th Brigade, in the First World War as part of Kitchener's New Armies and joined the 18th (Eastern) Division, serving with it throughout the war mainly on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918.

Order of battle

7th (Service) Battalion, Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, East Surrey Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (left February 1918)
55th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (formed 13 February 1916, moved to 18th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps 16 February 1918)
55th Trench Mortar Battery (formed 17 June 1916)

Second World War

The brigade was disbanded after the war in 1919. However, it was reformed as the 55th Infantry Brigade in 1939 in the Territorial Army shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War and joined the 18th Infantry Division. It remained in the United Kingdom on home defence and training duties, preparing for a possible German invasion which, fortunately, never arrived. The 55th Infantry Brigade, along with the rest of the 18th Division, was sent to Singapore in 1942 where it surrendered to the Imperial Japanese Army in the short but violent Battle of Singapore. The men of the brigade would spend the next three years as Japanese prisoners in harsh and degrading imprisonment.

Order of battle

1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment (to 30 October 1939)
5th Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
1/5th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (from 8 July 1940)
55th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 9 October, disbanded 14 December 1940)

Commanders

Brig. W.M. Ozanne
Brig. T.H. Massey-Beresford

References

Bibliography

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References

"18th (Eastern) Division". The Long Long Trail.
"18 Infantry Division (1939)".
"British Infantry Brigades, 1st thru 215th, 1939-1945".

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