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Latest revision as of 22:05, 22 August 2012

3rd Infantry Brigade was one of three British Army brigade headquarters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It was based in Portadown and covered the border area. Its commander reported to the Commander Land Forces (Northern Ireland).[1]

Partial list of commanders

Notes

  1. Mark Urban, Big Boys' Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle against the IRA, Faber and Faber, 1992, p.16.
  2. W.D. Flackes and Sydney Elliott, Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-88, BlackStaff Press, 1989, p.294.