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The Wessex Brigade was an administrative formation of the British Army from 1948 to 1968. The Brigade administered the regular infantry regiments of the Wessex area of south and south west England. After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter.
The 43 (Wessex) Brigade was transferred to 4th Division on 1 April 2007, and then came under Support Command in late 2011. [ 19 ] The brigade was disbanded at Jellalabad Barracks , Tidworth, in December 2014 under the Army 2020 plan.
Meanwhile, the battalions and batteries were immediately distributed to garrisons across India, reverting to peacetime service conditions, and the Wessex Division never saw service as a whole, though it was formally numbered the 43rd (1st Wessex) Division in 1915 and the brigades were designated 128th (Hampshire) Brigade, 129th (South Western ...
Prior to 2012, the 43rd (Wessex) Brigade had overseen all army units and was the Regional Point of Command (RPC) of the British Army in South West England.However, in 2014, under the Army 2020 programme, 43rd (Wessex) Brigade was absorbed into 1st Artillery Brigade, which had been based at the Airfield Camp, Netheravon since 2005.
The 1st Wessex Brigade re-formed on 7 February 1920 with 1–3 (Hampshire) Batteries, and reabsorbed the Wessex Heavy Battery as 4 (Hampshire) (Howitzer) Battery. In 1921 the TF was reorganised as the Territorial Army (TA) and the brigade now became 54th (Wessex) Brigade , Royal Field Artillery, organised as follows: [ 7 ] [ 12 ] [ 40 ]
1st Wessex Brigade: 2nd Wessex (Howitzer) Brigade: Staffordshire: 1st Shropshire and Staffordshire Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (part) 2nd North Midland Brigade (part) (3rd North Midland Brigade raised 1908) Suffolk: 1st Norfolk Royal Garrison Artillery (Volunteers) (part) 3rd East Anglian (Howitzer) Brigade Sussex
The II (or 2nd) Wessex Brigade was a howitzer unit of the Royal Field Artillery in Britain's Territorial Force (TF) that was formed on the Isle of Wight in 1908. It served in India and the Middle East during World War I, one of its batteries being captured at the Siege of Kut in Mesopotamia in 1916, and another seeing active service in the Third Afghan War of 1919.
The 2/III Wessex Brigade formed immediately after the 1st Line sailed for India. Recruitment and training for the 2nd Wessex Division proceeded so quickly that on 25 November it was decided to send that to India as well, and most units embarked on 12 December 1914, becoming the 45th (2nd Wessex) Division in 1915.