The 31st Infantry Brigade was an infantry formation of the British Army, which participated in both the First and the Second World Wars. The brigade was later reformed after the end of the war serving
Men of the 5th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers at Basingstoke in May or June 1915 during the battalion’s brief stay in Basingstoke before embarkation for Gallipoli. Incidentally it also shows the importance of horses in everyday life at the time of the First World War. The water trough stood at the junction outside the Wheatsheaf pub.
Mule teams from the 31st Independent Infantry Brigade training in the Black Mountains in Wales, 26 June 1941.
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The 10th Division, was one of the first of Kitchener's New Army K1 Army Group divisions, authorized on 21 August 1914, after the outbreak of the Great War. It included battalions from the various prov
31st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
…Brigade was originally raised in the First World War in 1914, by volunteers from Kitchener's Army. During the First World War, it was assigned to the 10th (Irish) Division and served in the Middle Eastern theatre at Gallipoli, Salonika and Palestine. The brigade had the following composition…
Lord Kitchener, on the right on horseback, reviewing the 10th (Irish) Division at Basingstoke, Hampshire, June 1915.
Men of the 5th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, the divisional pioneers, shelter in the trenches on the Gallipoli Peninsula, August 1915.
A church service at the 10th (Irish) Division's Basingstoke camp, 1915
Guildhall Derry stained-glass window which commemorates the Three Irish Divisions, left the 36th, right the 10th and 16th