12th Armoured Brigade Combat Team (United Kingdom)

12th Armoured Brigade Combat Team
12th Armoured Brigade Combat Team
	Insignia of 12th Mechanized Brigade
Active	1899 – present
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Mechanized infantry
Part of	3rd (United Kingdom) Division
Garrison/HQ	Bulford Camp
Engagements	Second Boer War; First World War; Le Cateau; Battle of Marne; Battle of Aisne; First Battle of Ypres (1914); Battle of Messines (1914); Hill 60; Second Battle of Ypres (1915); Battle of Albert; Battle of Le Transloy; Battle of the Somme; First Battle of the Scarpe; Third Battle of the Scarpe; Battle of Polygon Wood; Battle of Broodseinde; Battle of Poelcapelle; Battle of Passchendaele; Battle of Arras (1918); Battle of Hazebroucke; Battle of Bethune; Advance in Flanders; Battle of the Scarpe (1918); Battle of Drocourt-Quéant; Battle of the Canal du Nord; Battle of the Selle; Battle of Valenciennes; Second World War
Commanders
Current; commander	Brigadier Henry Searby
Notable; commanders	R.A.P. Clements; Sir Henry Maitland Wilson; Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart; Sir John Hawkesworth; Daniel Beak; Sir Richard Hull; Sir Gordon MacMillan
Insignia
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The 12th Armoured Brigade Combat Team, formerly the 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade, is a regular brigade of the British Army which has been in almost continuous existence since 1899 and now forms part of 3rd (United Kingdom) Division.

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