131st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
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The 131st Infantry Brigade, originally the Surrey Brigade was an infantry formation of Britain's Territorial Army that saw service during both the First and the Second World Wars. In the First World War the brigade was in British India for most of the war and did not see service as a complete unit but many of its battalions would see service in the Middle East.
An infantry section from 'B' Company of the 1/6th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment try out their collapsible boats in a farmyard in preparation for crossing the Volturno river, Italy, 8 October 1943.
Infantrymen of the 1/5th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment occupy a captured German trench at Laar during the drive on Hertogenbosch, Holland, 24 October 1944.
Snow-suited troops of 131st Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, in Universal Carriers drive past German POWs in Echt, 18 January 1945.
44th (Home Counties) Division
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The Home Counties Division was an infantry division of the Territorial Force, part of the British Army, that was raised in 1908. As the name suggests, the division recruited in the Home Counties, particularly Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex.
A soldier emerges from the 'mud bath' during training at the 44th Divisional battle school at Dene Park, Tonbridge in Kent, 22 April 1942.