The Brigade administered the regular infantry regiments of the English Midlands.

After the Second World War the British Army had fourteen infantry depots, each bearing a letter.

The depots were territorially organised, and Infantry Depot F at Strensall was the headquarters for the county regiments of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Warwickshire.

From 1958 all regiments in the Brigade adopted a common cap badge: "A Maltese cross voided, the points pommelled, and thereon, on a mount, an antelope statant gorged with a ducal coronet and chained within The Garter, the whole encircled with a chaplet of oak-leaves issuant from a scroll inscribed 'Forester Brigade' and ensigned with, upon a mount, a tiger passant guardant.

[3] From 1960 the Forester Brigade was based at Glen Parva Barracks in Leicestershire.