The 94th Infantry Brigade was a
British Army brigade formed during the
First World War as part of the
British 31st Division
The 31st Division was an infantry division of the British Army. It was raised in the Great War by volunteers from Kitchener's Army and formed in April 1915 as part of the K4 Army Group and taken over by the War Office on 10 August 1915. Comprisi ...
.
94th Brigade
The 31st Division is famous as one of Kitchener's Divisions of the
New Army with their large number of
Pals battalions that suffered heavy casualties during the
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme ( French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place bet ...
. The 94th Brigade suffered some of the worst casualties during the
First day on the Somme .
*11th (Service) Battalion (
Accrington
Accrington is a town in the Hyndburn borough of Lancashire, England. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, east of Preston, north of Manchester and is situated on the culverted River Hyndburn. Commonly abbreviated by locals to ...
),
The East Lancashire Regiment
The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a line infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59th (2nd Nottingh ...
(''to 92nd Bde February 1918'')
*12th (Service) Battalion (
Sheffield),
The York and Lancaster Regiment (''disbanded February 1918'')
*13th (Service) Battalion (
1st Barnsley), The York and Lancaster Regiment (''to 93rd Bde February 1918'')
*14th (Service) Battalion (
2nd Barnsley), The York and Lancaster Regiment (''disbanded February 1918'')
94th (Yeomanry) Brigade
The brigade was disbanded in February 1918 then began reforming in May. In June it was brought up to strength with the addition of
Yeomanry battalions from the
74th (Yeomanry) Division and renamed the 94th (Yeomanry) Brigade.
*12th (
Norfolk Yeomanry) Battalion,
Norfolk Regiment
*12th (
Ayrshire
Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
and
Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Battalion,
Royal Scots Fusiliers
The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that existed from 1678 until 1959 when it was amalgamated with the Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Mar ...
*
24th (Denbighshire Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers
Sources
* "The Somme, The Day by Day Account", Chris McCarthy, 1998, The Caxton Publishing Group. {{ISBN, 1-86019-873-2
Pals Brigades of the British Army
Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I