c1947-61 The 162nd Independent Infantry Brigade Printed Cloth Formation Sign Badge

162nd Ind Inf Bde's Flash represents its three Regiments: Northamptonshire Regimental Castle, within a heart symbolising the Hertfordshire Regt hart or dear, the whole sign in Bedfordshire and Herts Regt'l colours. VGC.

Disbanded after the war, the Brigade was reformed in the Territorial Army as the 162nd Infantry Brigade and continued to be part of the 54th (East Anglian) Infantry Division. In the Second World War, the brigade remained in the United Kingdom throughout the war and did not see service and was disbanded in August 1944.

The brigade was reformed in 1947 as 162nd Independent Infantry Brigade before being finally disbanded in 1961.

Code: 164