Essex Brigade

Essex Brigade
161st (Essex) Brigade
161st Infantry Brigade
161st Independent Infantry Brigade
Active1888–1919
1921–1941
1947–1967
Country United Kingdom
Branch Territorial Army
TypeInfantry
SizeBrigade
Part of54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division
EngagementsGallipoli Campaign
Senussi Campaign
Battle of Romani
First Battle of Gaza
Second Battle of Gaza
Third Battle of Gaza
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Col Edward Bulfin
Brig-Gen Sydney Lawford

The Essex Brigade, later 161st Brigade and 161st Infantry Brigade, was a volunteer infantry formation of the British Army in existence from 1888 until 1941, and again from 1947. It served at Gallipoli and in Palestine during the First World War and returned to Egypt in the early part of the Second World War before transferring to the British Indian Army and redesignated 161st Indian Infantry Brigade. In peacetime and during the wars the brigade was an integral part of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division and contained mostly battalions of the Essex Regiment.