The Guards Support Group was a brigade

Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of two to five battalions, plus supporting elements depending on the era and nationality of a given army and could be perceived as an enlarged/reinforced regiment...

 size formation within the British

United Kingdom

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 Guards Armoured Division. The Support Group (or "pivot group") provided whatever support the division's armoured brigades needed for the operation in hand. It was able to provide motorised infantry, field artillery, anti-tank artillery or light anti-aircraft artillery as needed. It was formed in 1941 by the conversion of the 7th Infantry Brigade (Guards) which had served 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...

, and disbanded in 1942 without seeing any active service.

Commanders

• 15-Sep-1941 10-Oct-1941 Brigadier A de L Cazenove
• 10-Oct-1941 31-May-1942 Brigadier LC Manners-Smith

Formation

• 1st Battalion Welsh Guards
  Welsh Guards
  The Welsh Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division.-Creation :The Welsh Guards came into existence on 26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant of His Majesty King George V in order to include Wales in the national component to the Foot Guards, "..though the order...
  
  
• 153 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery
  Royal Artillery
  The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:...
  
  
• 21 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery
• 94 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillry

Footnotes

• Boscawen, Robert
  Robert Boscawen
  Robert Thomas Boscawen is a retired British Conservative politician.-Background and education:The son of Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen, eighth Viscount Falmouth, of Tregothnan, near Truro, and a member of a very old Cornish family, Boscawen was educated at West Downs School and Eton College...
  
  . Armoured Guardsmen: A War Diary, June 1944-April 1945. Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword, 2001.
• Sanders, J, British Guards Armoured Division 1941-1945, Osprey Vanguard, 1979