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Regular Army Brigades
===First World War===
====Regular Army Brigades====
[http://www.1914longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-1918.netcorps/cra.htm The British the-royal-artillery -in-the-first-world-war/batteries-and-brigades-of 1914-1918the-royal-field-artillery/ Batteries and Brigades of the Royal Field Artillery] from "The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War", which indicates there were some Regular Army Brigades in India throughout the War , examples being*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-royal-artillery-in-the-first-world-war/batteries-and-brigades-of-the-royal-field-artillery/vi-howitzer-brigade-of-the-royal-field-artillery/ 6 (Howitzer) Brigade (regular, VI (How))]
:Comprising only number 77 Battery and based at Jhansi, this brigade came under command of the 7th (Meerut) Division of the Indian Army. It remained in India throughout the war, leaving the Division when it went to France. In 1915-6 it was under the 1st (Peshawar) Division.
*[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-royal-artillery-in-the-first-world-war/batteries-and-brigades-of-the-royal-field-artillery/vii-brigade-of-the-royal-field-artillery/ 7 Brigade (regular, VII) ]
:Comprising numbers 4, 38 and 78 Batteries RFA plus 68 and 84 Companies RGA and 104 Battery RGA and based at Rawalpindi, this brigade came under command of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division of the Indian Army. It remained in India throughout the war.
*[http://www.1914longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-royal-artillery-in-the-first-world-war/batteries-and-brigades-of-the-royal-field-artillery/xvi-brigade-of-the-royal-field-1918.netartilery/rfa_units_16.html XVI 16 Brigade(regular, RFAXVI)] A unit of Britain's pre-war regular army and comprising 89, 90 and 91 Batteries, this brigade came under command of the 1st (Peshawar) Division of the Indian Army and was based at Nowshera. It remained in India throughout the war, only leaving Nowshera for Rawalpindi in November 1918. 
====Territorial Force troops====
See [[British Army Territorial Force troops arriving in 1914]] for some of the Royal Field Artillery Batteries which arrived at the end of 1914.
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