3rd Guards Brigade (United Kingdom)

It served with the Guards Division on the Western Front for the rest of the war.

The 3rd Guards Brigade was formed at Lumbres, near St Omer, France[1] on 15 August 1915.

[2] The latter two battalions had been in Belgium and France from 5 October 1914 with the British Expeditionary Force.

[1] In February 1918, British[a] divisions on the Western Front were reduced from a 12-battalion to a 9-battalion basis (brigades from four to three battalions).

Battalions started returning to England on 20 February 1919 and the last units had completed the move by 29 April.

Men of the 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards resting in a reserve trench near Guillemont , France , during the Battle of the Somme , 3 September 1916.