British 37th Infantry Brigade
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The 37th Infantry Brigade was a 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...

 unit during the First and Second World War
World War II
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s .

World War II

A duplicate of the British 133rd Infantry Brigade
British 133rd Infantry Brigade
The 133rd Infantry Brigade was a 1st Line Territorial Army unit of the British Army during World War II.-History:Part of the British 44th Infantry Division it served in the Battle of France and the Western Desert Campaign where this brigade along with the 44th Infantry Division was...

 it was re-created on 7 October 1939. In France
France
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 1940 as part of the 12th (Eastern) Division
British 12th (Eastern) Division
The 12th Infantry Division was a division raised by the British Army during the First World War. It was disbanded during the Second World War due to the number of casualties that it took.- Formation and First World War :...

 which was nearly completely destroyed fighting the German
Germany
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 invasion. It was reorganised as the British 7th Infantry Brigade (Guards)
British 7th Infantry Brigade (Guards)
The 7th Infantry Brigade was a British Army formation in the Second World War , it served with the British 3rd Infantry Division in France and Belgium 1940. On 15 September 1941 it was converted to the Guards Support Group...

 on 8 December 1941.

Structure

  • 5th Royal East Kent Regiment
  • 6th The Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 7th The Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 2/6th The East Surrey Regiment

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