1st Light Armoured Brigade 1st Armoured Brigade 1st Armoured Brigade Group | |
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Active | Until November 1942 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Armoured formation |
Role | Armoured warfare |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | BEF Force HQ Greece Eighth Army |
Engagements | Battle of France Battle of Mount Olympus Second Battle of El Alamein |
Commanders | |
Brigadier | Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie |
(Acting) Lieutenant-Colonel | Reginald Keller |
The 1st Armoured Brigade, raised as the 1st Light Armoured, on 14 April 1940 its designation changed to 1st Armoured Brigade Group, an armoured formation of the British Army.