147th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 147th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army, part of the Territorial Force, that served in both the First and the Second World Wars with the 49th Infantry Division.
Infantrymen of the 11th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 49th (West Riding) Division, searching houses in Ede in the Netherlands, 17 April 1945.
49th (West Riding) Infantry Division
The 49th Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army. The division fought in the First World War in the trenches of the Western Front, in the fields of France and Flanders. During the Second World War, the division fought in the Norwegian Campaign and in North-western Europe. After the Second World War, it was disbanded in 1946, then reformed in 1947. It remained with Northern Command until finally disbanded in 1967.
Badge worn at the top of the sleeve between the wars and early in the Second World War, made of white metal.
Badge, second pattern, adopted in Iceland during the Second World War.
British troops returning from leave, Mailly Maillet, November 1916. The group of soldiers includes men of the Lancashire Fusiliers, York and Lancaster Regiment, and the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding), from the 49th Division.
Some members of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment testing gas equipment on board the Polish liner MS Sobieski, April 1940. She was lying off Gourock, Scotland and had been used as a troopship for some months.
