The 234th Brigade was assigned to the 75th Division and served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.
The unit was formed as the main British military force for the Dodecanese Campaign to capture the Dodecanese Islands in late 1943 and consisted mainly of regular army units of the British Army that had served on the island during the siege.
The brigade, under Major-General F. G. R. Brittorous, later replaced by Brigadier Robert Tilney, was landed on the island of Leros towards the end of September 1943.
[3] The 234th Brigade, together with other British, Italian and Allied forces, attempted to hold the Dodecanese islands against successive German air attacks and the landings of amphibious German forces, but without success.
The few men of the brigade who had escaped returned to the Middle East, where it was disbanded on 16 January 1944.