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The 251st Indian Tank Brigade was an armoured formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was to be formed in early 1940 as the 1st Indian Motor Brigade and then went through a number of different changes in title. In July 1940 it was raised as the 1st Indian Armoured Brigade, renamed 251st Indian Armoured Brigade in October 1941 and ...
The brigades were re-named the 251st and 252nd Indian Armoured Brigades and the 31st Indian Support Group (the Motor Brigade's name remained unchanged). In mid-1942, by which time the support group had been disbanded, the 251st Brigade was detached and the rest of the division was shipped to join the Tenth Army and served in Iraq , Syria and ...
50th Indian Tank Brigade; 251st Indian Tank Brigade previously called 1st Indian Armoured and 251st Indian Armoured Brigade; 252nd Indian Armoured Brigade previously called 2nd Indian Armoured Brigade; 254th Indian Tank Brigade previously called 4th Indian Armoured and 254th Indian Armoured Brigade
The 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse), together with the 11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) (PAVO) and 18th King Edward's Own Cavalry (KEO) formed Sialkot Area and renamed the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade (Brigadier E. W. D. Vaughan, late OC 2nd Royal Lancers) from July 1940, under the command of the 1st Indian Armoured Division from August 1940.
The division trained extensively, but with very few tanks — the tank Regiments assigned to 1st Indian Armoured Brigade had three M3 Stuart tanks each, though a number of the obsolete India Pattern light tanks were used for crew training. The final formation of the Division was the 252nd Indian Armoured Brigade and the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade.
II Indian Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery N Battery, RHA, arrived in France with the 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade V Battery, RHA X Battery, RHA II Brigade Ammunition Column E Section arrived 5 January 1915 F Section arrived 5 January 1915 H Section 1st Indian Field Troop Royal Engineers 3rd Indian Signal Squadron 2nd Indian Cavalry Supply ...
More Allied troops were arriving at Kohima. The 7th Indian Division followed 5th Indian Division from the Arakan, an Indian motor infantry brigade reinforced 2nd Division and a brigade diverted from the Chindit operation cut Japanese 31st Division's supply lines. XXXIII Corps renewed its offensive in the middle of May.
4th Indian Infantry Brigade; 5th Bengal Light Cavalry; 5th Cavalry (India) 5th Indian Infantry Brigade; 6th (Poona) Division; 8th Rajputs; 10th Indian Infantry Brigade; 10th Indian Motor Brigade; 10th Jats; 11th Indian Infantry Brigade; 12th Infantry Division (India) 13th Indian Infantry Brigade; 14th Indian Infantry Brigade; 15th Indian ...