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how to designate 6th brigade within a division?
If a division had more than 3 brigades how did they display that on uniform. The division in question I have read only used 4th, 5th & 6th brigades in WWII, so did that mean they used the same as they would for 1st to 3rd brigades, ie 1, 2 or 3 stripes?
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My understanding is:
The strips were to indicate Brigade seniority, one for the senior brigade (4th Bde), two for the intermediate (5th Bde) and three for the junior (6th Bde). Marc
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Thanks Mark, that is what occured to me after I had posted, as you say so 6th brigade would be 3 strips
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I had an epiphany as I thought about this so I looked at other infantry divisions and found the 1-3rd brigades were in first div and 2nd div had 4-6th brigades whilst the 4th div had 10-12th brigades and I assume this pattern continued throughout the infantry divisions, I never really worked this out prior to this even though I knew the 53rd welsh div had the 158th to 160th brigades.
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It wasn't really that simple. As the War progressed most Inf Divs shed at least one of its original three Inf Bdes. For example 3 Inf Div (a Regular Army formation) started the war was composed of 7 Inf Bde (Guards), 8 Inf Bde and 9 Inf Bde. However in Sep 41 7 Inf Bde (Guards) left 3 Inf Div and was replaced in Dec 41 by 7 Inf Bde. The latter did not stay long, leaving in May 42 and being replaced by 33 Tk Bde - the so-called Mixed Division experiment. 33 Tk Bde left in Apr 43 and were replaced by 185 Inf Bde. The latter remained part of 3 Inf Div until the end of the War. With all this to-ing and fro-ing the matter of removing and replacing one, two or three small strips of red felt must have been a real pain for all concerned. No wonder some formations gave up the idea of wearing marks to indicate Bde seniority.
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Mike, the whole system had excaped my attention before this, I suppose because it was 2nd div and brigades 4-6 that made me think about this. The reason I skipped 3rd div was because it was not typical of the basic system.
Thanks for commenting.
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