148th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

The brigade consisted of two volunteer battalions of the King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) and two of the York and Lancaster Regiment.

The battalions adopted the '1/' prefix (for example, 1/4th KOYLI) to differentiate them from their 2nd Line units being formed.

Due to a shortage of manpower in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF)[4] it was decided to reduce all British divisions serving on the Western Front from twelve to nine infantry battalions, all brigades reducing from four to three, and so the 1/5th KOYLI was transferred from 148th Brigade to the 187th (2/3rd) West Riding Brigade of 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division where they amalgamated with the 2/5th KOYLI and were renamed the 5th Battalion.

However, during the years shortly before the Second World War, all of the brigade's original battalions were converted to other roles or were gradually posted away.

[6] With the rest of the 49th Division, the brigade was mobilised on 1 September 1939, after the German Army's invasion of Poland.

Men of the 8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters cross a river using a small kapok pontoon bridge, Dunadry in Northern Ireland , 28 August 1941.
A 25-pounder field gun of the 150th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 148th Independent Infantry Brigade Group, firing during Exercise 'Dragoon' in the Sperrin Mountains near Draperstown in Northern Ireland, 1 April 1942.