Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt) 4th Armoured Brigade 4th Armoured Brigade Group 4th Mechanized Brigade 4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East 4th Light Brigade Combat Team
Current insignia of the 4th Infantry Brigade & HQ North East.
Active
1939–1945 1976–Present
Country
United Kingdom
Branch
British Army
Type
Infantry
Size
Brigade
Part of
1st (United Kingdom) Division
Garrison/HQ
Catterick, North Yorkshire
Engagements
Second World War
North African Campaign
Invasion of Sicily
Battle of Normandy
North West Europe Campaign
Gulf War Bosnian War Kosovo Campaign Iraq War Afghanistan
Commanders
Current commander
Brigadier Oliver Brown
Notable commanders
Michael Carver
Military unit
Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt) (September 1939)
Parent unit
7th Armoured Division
Components
1st Royal Tank Regiment 6th Royal Tank Regiment
4th Armoured Brigade (April 1940)
Parent unit
7th Armoured Division
Components
2nd Royal Tank Regiment 6th Royal Tank Regiment 7th Queen's Own Hussars
4th Armoured Brigade Group (February 1942)
Parent unit
7th Armoured Division
Components
3rd Royal Tank Regiment 5th Royal Tank Regiment 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps 1st Regiment, RHA Troop, 4th Field Squadron, RE 5th Company, RASC 58th Company, RASC 151st Light Field Ambulance
4th Armoured Brigade (June 1943)
Components
2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry 3rd County of London Yeomanry
4th Armoured Brigade (May 1945)
Parent unit
21st Army Group
Components
44th Royal Tank Regiment 2nd Battalion, KRRC
4th Armoured Brigade (1981)
Parent unit
3rd Armoured Division
Components
Queen's Royal Irish Hussars 17th/21st Lancers 1st Battalion, Irish Guards
4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East (2020)
Parent unit
1st (United Kingdom) Division
Components
Light Dragoons Queen's Own Yeomanry 2nd Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment Royal Highland Fusiliers 52nd Lowland Volunteers
4th Light Brigade Combat Team (2030)
Parent unit
1st (United Kingdom) Division
Components
Light Dragoons 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland 1st Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment 2nd Battalion, The Rifles 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles 103rd Regiment, Royal Artillery 75 Engineer Regiment, RE 154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC 102 Battalion REME
4th Light Brigade Combat Team, previously known as 4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East, and before that as 4th Mechanized Brigade and before that 4th Armoured Brigade is a brigade formation of the British Army, currently based in Catterick, North Yorkshire as part of 1st (United Kingdom) Division.[1] The brigade, now known as the 'Black Rats', was formed in 1939 and fought in the Second World War in the Western Desert Campaign in North Africa. The Black Rats were subsequently involved in the invasion of Sicily and fighting in Italy before taking part in the Battle of Normandy and the advance through Belgium, Holland and into Germany.[2]
More recently, the Brigade took part in the First Gulf War and completed a number of tours to the Balkans during the 1990s. The Black Rats have also since deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan as the lead formation.
^4th Mechanized Brigade, British Army, retrieved 15 February 2017
^Brigadier RMP Carter (1945). The History of the 4th Armoured Brigade. ISBN 978-1470119645.
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