8th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)

8th Armoured Brigade
8th (Yorkshire) Armoured Brigade
8th Armoured Brigade Formation badge
Active1941–1956
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeArmoured
SizeBrigade
Nickname(s)Red Fox
EquipmentCrusader
Grant
Sherman
EngagementsNorth African Campaign
Operation Overlord
Operation Market Garden
Operation Blackcock
Operation Plunder
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Brigadier "Rosey" Lloyd
Brigadier E. C. N. Custance
Brigadier "Roscoe" Harvey
Brigadier J. M. Anstice
Insignia
Identification
symbol
Red Fox mask on a yellow background
Identification
symbol
Logo

The 8th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army formed in August 1941, during the Second World War and active until 1956. The brigade was formed by the renaming of 6th Cavalry Brigade, when the 1st Cavalry Division based in Palestine (of which it was part) converted from a motorised formation (having been horse-mounted until January 1940) to an armoured unit, becoming 10th Armoured Division.[1]

Crusader tanks moving forward, Western Desert, 26 November 1941.
  1. ^ "Prior-Palmer (1946), Chapter 1".

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