52nd Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

52nd Infantry Brigade
Modern Insignia of 52 Infantry Brigade, symbolising its role as the main formation in the city of Edinburgh Garrison.
Active	World War I 1914 - 1918 World War II 1939 - 1945 1982 - 2010
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Role	Light infantry
Part of	3rd Infantry Division
Garrison/HQ	Redford Barracks, Edinburgh
Engagements	Battle of Musa Qala, 2007
Commanders
Current commander	Brigadier C.J.Lawrence MBE

The 52nd Infantry Brigade was a Scottish formation in the British Army. It was formed and disbanded several times during the 20th Century.

It began its existence in September 1914 as a formation of the 17th (Northern) Division during the First World War. It spent the whole war with the Division on the Western Front, until May 1919 when it was disbanded.

The Brigade was reformed in September 1943 as a training formation for jungle warfare replacements. It was redesignated as Headquarters Training Group on 1 August 1945, and then disbanded later, possibly in 1946.

However the dominant historical threads behind the current 52nd Infantry Brigade comes from the famed 52nd Lowland Division, a Territorial Force formation. It was initially deployed to Gallipoli during World War I, sent to the Middle East, and moved to the Western Front in March 1918. It was later reformed in the Territorial Army in the interwar period.

During World War II it was deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force, the Division was evacuated along with rest of the army from Dunkirk, and then trained before D-Day as both an airlanding and a mountain division. However, it was deployed to mainland Europe finally in November 1944 as a conventional infantry formation and fought in North-Western Europe for the remainder of the war.