267th Indian Armoured Brigade

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267th Indian Tank Brigade
Active3 July 1942 – 1 April 1943
CountryBritish Raj Red Ensign.svg British India
Allegiance British Crown
BranchEnsign of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps.svg  British Indian Army
Type Armoured
Size Brigade
Part of 43rd Indian Armoured Division
Service Second World War

The 267th Indian Tank Brigade was a short lived armoured brigade of the Indian Army during the Second World War. It was reconstituted as 72nd Indian Infantry Brigade.

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History

The brigade was formed on 3 July 1942 at Sialkot with three regiments of the Royal Armoured Corps. These were infantry battalions of the British Army that were converted to an armoured role:

It moved to Secunderabad in October under the command of the 43rd Indian Armoured Division and then to Poona. [3] The brigade was intended for service in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War [4] but in the event it never left India. On 1 April 1943, it was reconstituted as the 72nd Indian Infantry Brigade. [3]

Units

The brigade commanded the following units: [4] [5]

See also

Notes

  1. Kempton [7] acknowledges Joslen's [6] information, but notes that there is no reference to a 67th Indian Training Brigade in any official Indian Army records or orders of battle.

References

  1. 1 2 Kempton 2003c , p. 1
  2. 1 2 3 4 Kempton 2003c , p. 2
  3. 1 2 Kempton 2003b , p. 4
  4. 1 2 "Royal Tank Ccrps: 267 Indian Tank Brigade". burmastar.org. Archived from the original on 12 July 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
  5. Kempton 2003b , p. 5
  6. 1 2 Joslen 1990 , p. 543
  7. Kempton 2003b, p. 57
  8. Kempton 2003c , p. 8

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