73rd Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 73rd Brigade was a formation of the British Army. It was raised as part of the new army also known as Kitchener's Army and assigned to the 24th Division and served on the Western Front during the First World War.

Formation

12th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (to 17th Brigade in October 1915)
9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment
13th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) (from 17th Brigade in October 1915, left in February 1918)
73rd Machine Gun Company
73rd Trench Mortar Battery^[1]

References

↑ "24th Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 9 February 2015.

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