1st South African Infantry Brigade

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Formation	Type	Relationship	Dates
Brigades › Infantry	Category	organic
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Europe Campaign 1914–1918 › Brigades	Category	organic
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9th (Scottish) Division	Division	attached	1916-07-14 – 1916-07-22
Attached to 9th (Scottish) Division for the Battle of Delville Wood/the Somme; the SA Brigade was not permanently organic to any one British division through the war.

Constituent units

Unit	Type	Relationship	Dates
1st Regt.	Unit	organic	1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11
1st South African Infantry Regiment (Cape) -- founding constituent regiment.
28th Brigade Machine Gun Company	Unit	organic	1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11
Numbered "28th" for Machine Gun Corps administrative purposes -- the SA Brigade had no fixed number in the British brigade-numbering scheme it could otherwise take. Appears repeatedly in the Delville Wood rollcall (e.g. 2nd Lt J.G.G. Cuthbert, Capt R.L. Deane, Pte J.G. Guthrie, Sgt J. Deatcher).
2nd Regt.	Unit	organic	1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11
2nd South African Infantry Regiment (Natal & OFS) -- founding constituent regiment.
3rd Regt.	Unit	organic	1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11
3rd South African Infantry Regiment (Transvaal & Rhodesia) -- founding constituent regiment.
4th Regt.	Unit	organic	1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11
4th South African Infantry Regiment (Scottish) -- founding constituent regiment.
9th Bn. Seaforth Highlanders (Pioneers)	Unit	attached	1916-07-14 – 1916-07-22
Pioneer battalion attached to the SA Brigade for the Delville Wood engagement.
Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles	Regiment	organic	1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).
Natal Carbineers	Regiment	organic	1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).
Royal Natal Carbineers	Regiment	organic	1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).
Transvaal Scottish	Regiment	organic	1940-05-13 – 1940-12-31
South African Army order of battle 1940 (expeditionary / mobilisation brigades).

Eras

Dates	Force	Role	Status
1915-09-01 – 1918-11-11	UDF	Infantry	Expeditionary Force
Formed from four newly-raised South African Infantry regiments (1st Cape, 2nd Natal & OFS, 3rd Transvaal & Rhodesia, 4th Scottish); embarked for England September 1915, quartered at Bordon, Hampshire. Commanded by Brig-Gen H.T. Lukin (later Maj-Gen commanding 9th (Scottish) Division from Jan 1917); Lt-Col F.S. Dawson took over brigade command from Dec 1916. Fought at Delville Wood, Battle of the Somme, 14-20 July 1916 -- of 121 officers and 3,032 men who entered the wood, only 3 wounded officers and 140 men emerged five days later. Source

Personnel

No Roll of Honour records are linked to this brigade as their unit.