43rd Brigade (43rd Bde) was an infantry formation of the

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during both World Wars. It was formed in August 1914 as part of

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and was assigned to the

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, serving on the Western Front. It was reformed in 1943 as an internal security formation for

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and was later employed for deception purposes in

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. As 43 (Wessex) Brigade it was a regional headquarters in the UK from 1985 to 2014.

World War I

On 6 August 1914, less than 48 hours after Britain's declaration of war,

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sanctioned an increase of 500,000 men for the Regular

. The newly-appointed

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, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, issued his famous call to arms: 'Your King and Country Need You', urging the first 100,000 volunteers to come forward. Men flooded into the recruiting offices and the 'first hundred thousand' were enlisted within days. Army Order No 324 of 21 August authorised six new infantry divisions to be formed from these recruits, which became known as Kitchener's First New Army, or 'K1'. The senior of these division was to be 8th (Light) Division composed of battalions drawn from light infantry and rifle regiments of the British Army, with three brigades numbered 23rd, 24th and 25th. This formation began assembling at

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. However, it soon emerged that sufficient Regular Army battalions would be brought back from overseas garrisons to form an additional division: this became 8th Division, and the Kitchener division was renumbered on 14 September as the

, its brigades becoming 41st, 42nd and 43rd.Becke, pp. 45–52.14th (Light) Division at Long, Long Trail.
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Order of Battle

The brigade was composed as follows: * 6th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''left 16 June 1918'' * 6th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''disbanded 6–20 February 1918'' * 6th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''disbanded 12–19 February 1918'' * 10th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry – ''disbanded 12–19 February 1918'' * 43rd Company,

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– ''formed at Houtkerque 16 February 1916; joined 14th Divisional MG Battalion, Machine Gun Corps, March 1918'' * 43rd Trench Mortar Battery – ''formed at

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by 24 April 1916; broken up as infantry reinforcements by 14 April 1918'' * 9th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''transferred from

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5 February 1918; returned to 9th (S) Division 23 April 1918'' * 7th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''transferred from 41st Bde 2 February 1918; left 16 June 1918'' Following massive casualties during the

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all infantry battalions of 14th (L) Division were reduced to training cadres (TCs) in April. Various other units were attached to the division during May to work on the

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–

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–

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defence line. The division then proceeded to Brookwood in England on 17 June to be reconstituted at Pirbright Camp with troops of medical category B. 43rd Brigade was then composed as follows: * 12th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian) – ''TC joined from 40th Division 17 June, absorbed 16th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (formed at Pirbright 1 June), 18 June '' * 20th (Service) Battalion,

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(Shoreditch) – ''TC joined from

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at Boulogne 16 June, absorbed 34th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (formed at

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1 June) at Brookwood on 20 June'' * 10th (Service) Battalion,

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– ''TC joined from 34th Division at Boulogne 16 June, absorbed 22nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry (formed at

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1 June), at

21 June'' * 41st Trench Mortar Battery – ''reformed in England June 1918''

Service

14th (Light) Division crossed to France in May 1915 and completed its concentration around Watten, north-west of

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, by 25 May. Thereafter it served on the Western Front in the following operations: 1915 * Hooge (German liquid fire attack) 30–31 July * Second Attack on Bellewaarde 25 September 1916 *

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13–30 August **

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15–16 September 1917 * German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line 15 March–5 April * Battle of Arras ** First Battle of the Scarpe 9–12 April ** Third Battle of the Scarpe 3–4 May *

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** Battle of Langemarck 18 August ** Fighting on the Menin Road 22–26 August **

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12 October 1918 *

** Battle of St Quentin 21–23 March **

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4 April Following casualties in the German spring offensive, 14th (L) Division was withdrawn to England to be reconstituted (''see above''). It returned to the Western Front in July and participated in the following actions: *

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28 September–2 October ** Battle of Courtrai 14–19 October Following the

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of 14th (L) Division began in December 1918 and the division and is formations ceased to exist on 24 March 1919.

Commanders

The following officers commanded the brigade: * Brigadier-General V.A. Couper from 24 August 1914 * Brig-Gen G. Cockburn from 31 October 1914 (sick 3 August 1915) * Lt-Col V.T. Bailey acting from 3 August 1915 * Brig-Gen P.R. Wood from 4 August 1915 * Brig-Gen R.S. Tempest from 1 September 1917 * Brig-Gen G.E. Pereira from 16 September 1918

Insignia

The formation sign of 14th (L) Division was a light infantry green rectangle crossed by two white lines, one horizontal the other diagonal. Within the division the units wore a variety of identifying signs; for 43rd Bde these were: * 6th SLI: a dark green inverted triangle on the back of the jacket * 6th DCLI: a brass bugle (from a shoulder title) mounted on a circle of khaki cloth with a patch of red between the bugle strings; position unknown * 6th KOYLI: a dark green cloth silhouette of the regiment's bugle cap badge; position unknown * 10th DLI: a red cloth silhouette of the regiment's bugle cap badge, worn on the back of the jacket

World War II

The brigade was reformed in Britain on 16 August 1943, for

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and security force duties in

. Landing in North Africa on 23 September 1943, it moved to

on 5 November 1943 where it was redesignated on 9 November as the '40th Infantry Division' for deception purposes. Its battalions were similarly redesignated as 'brigades'.Joslen, p. 288. '... every effort was made to appear to be a division. This included the adoption of a divisional sign featuring the diamond and acorn ased onthe Great War 40th Division; these were made up locally and worn on uniform by the personnel of the "division" – in reality, three battalions of low medical category men armed with personal weapons only and with a skeleton complement of transport.' The deception titles lapsed on 17 June 1944 and the headquarters was disbanded on 30 June.

Order of Battle

* 31st Battalion,

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(''19 August 1943 to 27 October 1943'') * 30th Battalion,

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(''19 August 1943 to 5 November 1943'') * 30th Battalion,

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(''19 August 1943 to 16 June 1944, '120th Infantry Brigade' from 9 November 1943'') * 30th Battalion,

(''26 September 1943 to 12 April 1944, '119th Infantry brigade' from 9 November 1943'') * 30th Battalion,

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(''26 September 1943 to 27 October 1943'') * 30th Battalion,

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(''21 October 1943 to 19 May 1944, '121st Infantry Brigade' from 9 November 1943'')

Commander

The brigade's commander was

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G.H.P. Whitfield, appointed 19 August 1943. He was given the local rank of Major-General while the brigade purported to be '40th Division'.

Postwar

Cold War

In 1985 the 43rd (Wessex) Brigade was formed as one of the new one-star Headquarters, principally as a National Defence Brigade commanding the Territorial Army in the south west of England, part of

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. Its number perpetuated the memory of the

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. The Brigade assisted with recruiting and public relations in its area, which encompassed Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, the Channel Islands and Isles of Scilly. Its responsibilities included the annual

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walking challenge on Dartmoor. *

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(0199)British Army, ''1991 Master Order of Battle'', Ministry of Defence, London. London, United Kingdom. Retrieved 13 October 2021. ** Brigade Headquarters, at

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(V), in

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(Home Defence (Reconnaissance)) ***

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Band of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry (V) ** 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, at Picton Barracks,

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(Mechanised Infantry (Wheeled)) ** 4th (Volunteer) Battalion (1st Rifle Volunteers), The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (V), HQ at Wyvern Barracks, Exeter (Light Infantry, Home Defence) – formed in 1987 *** Devonshire Band of the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment (V), in

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** 1st Battalion (Rifle Volunteers), Wessex Regiment (V), in

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(Light Infantry) *** The Hampshire and Dorset Band of the Wessex Regiment (V) ** 266 (Gloucestershire Volunteer Artillery) Observation Post Battery, Royal Artillery (V), in

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(to 7th Parachute Regiment, RHA and 47th Field Regiment, RA) (18 x L118 105mm light guns) ** 155th (Wessex) Transport Regiment, Royal Corps of Transport (V), in

Sutton, pp. 527–570 **

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(V), in

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(Field Hospital) **

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, Royal Army Medical Corps (V), in

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(Field Hospital)

Modern day

In 1995 the restructuring programme within the

saw an increase in the brigade's responsibility to include regional and budgetary aspects working to a new superior headquarters: 3rd Division. The

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of 1998 further increased the brigade's responsibility and as from 1 April 1999 it came under the command of Headquarters

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, and moved from

in September 1999 to establish the new Headquarters 43rd (Wessex) Brigade. *

* The Rifle Volunteers * Exeter University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) * Bristol University Officer Training Corps (UOTC) * Affiliated Commander for ACF and CCF in the South West of England The 43 (Wessex) Brigade was transferred to 4th Division on 1 April 2007, and then came under Support Command in late 2011. The brigade was disbanded at Jellalabad Barracks, Tidworth, in December 2014 under the

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plan. Units and personnel from the brigade merged with Royal Artillery regiments to form

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Order of Battle on disbandment

*The

(RHQ Bovington) (TA) *6th Battalion

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(HQ Exeter) (TA) *

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(HQ Plymouth) (TA) *Bristol University Officers Training Corps (HQ Bristol) (TA) *Exeter University Officers Training Corps (HQ Exeter) (TA) *243 Field Hospital (Wessex) (RHQ Keynsham) (TA)

Notes

References

* Maj A.F. Becke,''History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3a: New Army Divisions (9–26)'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1938/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, ISBN 1-847347-41-X. * Clive Elderton & Gary Gibbs, ''World War One British Army Corps and Divisional Signs'', Wokingham: Military History Society, 2018. * Mike Hibberd, ''Infantry Divisions, Identification Schemes 1917'', Wokingham: Military History Society, 2016. * Brig E.A. James, ''British Regiments 1914–18'', London: Samson Books, 1978, ISBN 0-906304-03-2/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2001, ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. * Lt-Col H.F. Joslen, ''Orders of Battle, United Kingdom and Colonial Formations and Units in the Second World War, 1939–1945'', London: HM Stationery Office, 1960/London: London Stamp Exchange, 1990, ISBN 0-948130-03-2/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2003, ISBN 1-843424-74-6.

External sources

Chris Baker, ''The Long, Long Trail''
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