The 13th Infantry Brigade was a regular British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 formation during the Second World War.

History

This brigade was part of the British Expeditionary Force

British Expeditionary Force (World War II)

The British Expeditionary Force was the British force in Europe from 1939–1940 during the Second World War. Commanded by General Lord Gort, the BEF constituted one-tenth of the defending Allied force....

 sent to France

Battle of France

In the Second World War, the Battle of France was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, beginning on 10 May 1940, which ended the Phoney War. The battle consisted of two main operations. In the first, Fall Gelb , German armoured units pushed through the Ardennes, to cut off and...

 in 1940. After the retreat from France the 13th Brigade was involved in the landings on Vichy

Vichy

Vichy is a commune in the department of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais.It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.The town's inhabitants...

 held French Madagascar

Battle of Madagascar

The Battle of Madagascar was the Allied campaign to capture Vichy-French-controlled Madagascar during World War II. It began on 5 May 1942. Fighting did not cease until 6 November.-Geo-political:...

 in 1942. The division served in Sicily, Italy and North West Europe.

This brigade was part of the 5th Infantry Division

British 5th Infantry Division

The 5th Infantry Division is a regular army division of the British Army. It was established by Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington for service in the Peninsula War, as part of the Anglo-Portuguese Army, and has been active for most of the period since, including the First World War and the...

 throughout the war.

Commanders

• Brig. H.B.D.Wilcox
  Henry Willcox
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beresford Dennitts Willcox KCIE CB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Willcox was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters from the New Zealand Forces in 1911....
  
  
• Brig. M.C. Dempsey
  Miles Dempsey
  General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, GBE, KCB, DSO, MC was commander of the British Second Army during the D-Day landings in the Second World War...
  
  
• Brig. D.N.Wimberley
  Douglas Wimberley
  Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley CB, DSO, MC was commander of the 51st Division at the Second Battle of El Alamein in World War II and lead it across North Africa to Sicily....
  
  
• Brig. C.E. Knox
  Charles Edmond Knox
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Edmond Knox KCB was an Anglo-Irish soldier of the British Army.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brig. V.C.Russell
• Brig. L.M.Campbell
• Brig. E.A.Hefford

Structure

• 2nd Bn, The Cameronians
• 2nd Bn, The Wiltshire Regiment
• 2nd Bn, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
• 5th Bn, The Essex Regiment