1st South African Infantry Brigade

1st South African Infantry Brigade
Cap Badge of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade
ActiveSeptember 1915 – ?
1926 – January 1943
Disbanded1 Jan 1943
Country South Africa
AllegianceAllied Forces (World War I and World War II)
BranchSouth African Army
TypeInfantry
SizeBrigade
Motto(s)Union is Strength
Commanders
Commander WWI
  • Brig-Gen H. T. Lukin
  • Brig-Gen F. S. Dawson
  • Brig-Gen W. E. C. Tanner
Commander World War II

The South African 1st Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the army of the Union of South Africa during World Wars I and II. During World War I, the brigade served as a British formation in Egypt and on the Western Front, most famously the Battle of Delville Wood. It was reactivated at the start of the Second World War as a South African formation and served in East Africa and the Western Desert; the brigade disbanded on 1 January 1943.