Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade information
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Princess Irene Brigade
Koninklijke Nederlandse Brigade ‘Prinses Irene’
Princess Irene Brigade in South Holland on 8 May 1945
Active
May 1940-May 1945
Disbanded
Disbanded May 1945 to make way for a regiment.
Country
Netherlands
Allegiance
Dutch government-in-exile
Branch
Royal Netherlands Army
Type
Infantry brigade
Role
Mechanized infantry
Size
1,800[1]-~2,000
Patron
Princess Irene
Engagements
World War II
Battle of Normandy
Operation Market Garden
Operation Pheasant
Commanders
Major
Sas (May 1940-Jan. 1941)
Major
Phaff (Jan. 1941-)
N/A
Various
Colonel
A. C. de Ruyter van Steveninck (by Aug. 1944)
Military unit
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Free Dutch campaigns
Caribbean
Neuland
Aruba
Curaçao
Europe
Dunkirk
Dynamo
Atlantic
Overlord1
La Caine
Market Garden
Pheasant
Infatuate
Veritable
Mediterranean and Middle East
Cape Bon
Convoy UGS-402
Southwest Pacific
Dutch East Indies
1st Borneo
Manado
Tarakan
Balikpapan
Ambon
Palembang
Makassar Strait
Badung Strait
Timor
Java
Java Sea
Sunda Strait
North Western Area
Lilliput2
Cockpit
Crimson
Borneo
Oboe Two
1:Escort duty/post-landings; 2:Merchant ships
During the Second World War, the Royal Netherlands Motorized Infantry Brigade, later known as the Princess Irene Brigade (Dutch: Prinses Irene Brigade) was a Dutch military unit initially formed from approximately 1,500 troops, including a small group guarding German prisoners-of-war, who arrived in the United Kingdom in May 1940 following the collapse of the Netherlands. Elements of this force became the nucleus of what was originally called the "Dutch Legion."
Veterans of the Princess Irene Brigade who were members of the Dutch Army stationed at Wrottesley Park, Wolverhampton during World War II were given the Freedom of the City of Wolverhampton on 19 August 2006.
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