The 25th Infantry Brigade was a war-formed brigade

Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

 of the British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 during the First

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 and Second World Wars.

History

Created in 1915, the Brigade saw action in the European theatre of the Great War.

Recreated on 1 November 1939, it saw action during the Battle of France

Battle of France

In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...

 in 1940. After this it was based in Great Britain

Great Britain

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 where it remained until 1944 when it was disbanded.

Commanders

• Brig. Reginald Byng Stephens
  Reginald Byng Stephens
  General Sir Reginald Byng Stephens KCB CMG DL was a British Army general of the First World War and later Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1919 to 1923, Major-General commanding the 4th Division, 1923 to 1926, and finally Director-General of the Territorial Army, 1927 to...
  
   1915–1916
• Brig. William Ramsden
  William Havelock Ramsden
  Major-General William Havelock Ramsden CB, CBE, DSO, MC was a British Army commander during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Brig. E. T. L. Gurdon
• Brig. A. H. Blest (26 March 1941–30 August 1944)

Component units on creation in 1939

• 4th Bn. The Border Regiment
• 4th Bn. The Buffs (The Royal East Kent Regiment)
• 1/5th Bn. The Sherwood Foresters