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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 ...
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; 255th Indian Tank Brigade previously called 5th Indian Armoured and ...
At the end of 1940, this was changed to two armoured and one motor brigade. [28] When the 3rd Indian Motor Brigade was sent to Egypt, the British armoured division organisation of two armoured brigades and a Support group was adopted. In June 1942, the division's establishment was fixed as one armoured and one infantry brigade.
World War II film stubs (1 C, 344 P) ... 1st Indian Infantry Brigade; 1st Light Cavalry Division (France) ... 10th Indian Motor 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.
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 Infantry Brigade; 17th Indian Infantry Brigade; 18th Indian Infantry Brigade; 18th Infantry (British Indian Army) 19th Indian Infantry Brigade ...