The 36th Infantry Brigade was a 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.This brigade fought in both the First and Second World Wars. The brigade was a 2nd Line Territorial Army brigade.

World War I

The 36th Brigade fought throughout the First World War with the 12th Eastern Division on the Western Front

Western Front (World War I)

Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German Army opened the Western Front by first invading Luxembourg and Belgium, then gaining military control of important industrial regions in France. The tide of the advance was dramatically turned with the Battle of the Marne...

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• Formation during World War I
  • 8th The Royal Fusiliers (City of London
    London
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     Regiment)
  • 9th The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
  • 7th The Royal Sussex Regiment
  • 11th The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)

World War II

Re-created on 7 October 1939. It fought in the Battle of 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 May 1940, as part of the 12th (Eastern) Infantry Division

British 12th (Eastern) Division

The 12th Infantry Division was a division raised by the British Army during the First World War. It was disbanded during the Second World War due to the number of casualties that it took.- Formation and First World War :...

, where it was over run and dispersed. Reformed on 8 June 1940 it eventually became part of the British 78th Infantry Division

British 78th Infantry Division

The British 78th Infantry Division, also known as the Battleaxe Division, fought in the Second World War in North Africa and Italy.- History :...

 serving in the North African Campaign

North African campaign

During the Second World War, the North African Campaign took place in North Africa from 10 June 1940 to 13 May 1943. It included campaigns fought in the Libyan and Egyptian deserts and in Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia .The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had...

, in Sicily and the Italian Campaign

Italian Campaign (World War II)

The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters AFHQ was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the...

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• Formation during World War II
  • 5th Royal East Kent Regiment
  • 6th The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
    The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
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  • 7th The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
  • 8th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
    Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
    The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland....