The 156th Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army. The brigade saw active service in both the First and the Second World Wars with the 52nd Infantry Division.
Men of the 4th/5th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers pass between a Sherman and a Churchill tank during the 52nd Division's attack towards Stein from Tuddern, 18 January 1945.
Queen's Edinburgh Rifles
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The Queen's Edinburgh Rifles was a brigade of Rifle Volunteers raised in the county of city of Edinburgh in 1859. It later formed two battalions of the Royal Scots, which fought in World War I at Gall
156th (Scottish Rifles) Brigade
…1/8th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (left 28 June 1918) 1/4th (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles) Battalion, Royal Scots (from April 1915) 1/7th Battalion, Royal Scots (from April 1915…
Queen's Edinburgh Rifles, 1859.
The QER Drill Hall at Forrest Hill.
1914 Christmas card by the artist Walter Balmer Hislop, who served in D Company, 1/5th (QER) Bn, as 2nd Lt and died at Gallipoli in April 1915.
The assault on 'Umbrella Hill' and el Arish Redoubt.