83rd Brigade (United Kingdom)

The 83rd Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army. It was originally formed from regular army battalions serving away from home in the British Empire. It was assigned to the 28th Division and served on the Western Front and the Macedonian Front during World War I. The Brigade was temporarily attached to the 5th Division between March and April 1915.

The infantry battalions did not all serve at once, but all were assigned to the brigade during the war. ^[1]

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Commanding officers^[3]
Rank	Name	Date appointed	Notes
Brigadier-General	R. C. Boyle	26 December 1914	Sick 13 May 1915
Lieutenant-Colonel	T. O. Marden	13 May 1915	Acting
Brigadier-General	H. S. L. Ravenshaw	19 May 1915
Lieutenant-Colonel	W. A. Blake	18 May 1916	Acting
Brigadier-General	H. S. L. Ravenshaw	21 May 1916
Lieutenant-Colonel	G. E. Bayley	14 September 1916	Acting
Brigadier-General	F. S. Montague-Bates	25 September 1916
Brigadier-General	R. H. Hare	13 November 1916
Brigadier-General	F. C. Nisbet	10 March 1919
Lieutenant-Colonel	W. Miller	1 April 1919	Acting
Lieutenant-Colonel	R. C. Dobbs	23 May 1919	Acting
Brigadier-General	F. C. Nisbet	27 May 1919
Lieutenant-Colonel	R. Tyrer	21 September 1919	Acting
Brigadier-General	F. S. Montague-Bates	26 September 1919
Brigadier-General	D. I. Shuttleworth	26 February 1920

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[1]
"28th Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
[2]
"28th Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
[3]
Becke, Major A. F. (1935). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions. London: HMSO. p. 106. ISBN 1-871167-09-4.

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