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The 154th Infantry Brigade (part of the 
154th Brigade was luckier than its sister brigades of the 51st Division ( 152nd and 153rd). It was detached in June 1940 to form the mobile battlegroup " Arkforce" and was able to escape from Northern France while the rest of the division was forced to surrender at St Valery-en-Caux. However, the brigade was severely understrength by the time it returned to Britain, and in August 1940 it was reorganised and merged with the 28th Infantry Brigade of
51st (Highland) Infantry Division
The 51st (Highland) Division was an infantry division of the British Army that fought on the Western Front in France during the First World War from 1915 to 1918. The division was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force, as ...
) was an infantry
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brigade
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of the British Army
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division that fought during both the First
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and Second
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world wars. The brigade was raised in 1908, upon the creation of the Territorial Force
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, as the Argyll and Sutherland Brigade and was later redesignated as the 154th (3rd Highland) Brigade. The division was referred to as the "''Highway Decorators''" by other divisions who became used to discovering the 'HD' insignia painted wherever the Highlanders had passed through.
154th Brigade was luckier than its sister brigades of the 51st Division ( 152nd and 153rd). It was detached in June 1940 to form the mobile battlegroup " Arkforce" and was able to escape from Northern France while the rest of the division was forced to surrender at St Valery-en-Caux. However, the brigade was severely understrength by the time it returned to Britain, and in August 1940 it was reorganised and merged with the 28th Infantry Brigade of 9th (Highland) Infantry Division
The 9th (Highland) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army, formed just prior to the start of the Second World War. In March 1939, after the re-emergence of Germany as a significant military power and its occupation of C ...
to form part of the new 51st Division. In this capacity it went on to serve in North Africa
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and North-West Europe
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Campaign Honours
*Battle of France
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- 1939-1940 (destroyed)
* Battle of El Alamein
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- 1942
* Operation Supercharge - 1942
* Operation Pugilist
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- 1943
* Operation Husky
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- 1943
* Operation Overlord
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- 1944
* Operation Astonia
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- 1944
* Battle of the Scheldt
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- 1944
* Battle of the Bulge
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- 1944-45
* Operation Plunder
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- 1945
Order of battle
First World War
* 1/6th Battalion,Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
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* 1/7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* 1/8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* 1/9th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* 1/4th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
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* 1/4th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
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* 1/9th Battalion, Royal Scots
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1939-1940
* 6th Battalion,Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
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* 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
* 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
1940-1945
* 1st Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) * 7th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) * 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland HighlandersReferences
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