[PeterG]

Originally Posted by Owen

Ron,
Now should Peter G try and get this quote altered as it isn't quite correct either.
BBC - WW2 People's War - Attack at Salerno and Sighting the Cassino Monastery

That is not strictly true as in '42 it became 200th Guards Brigade and then renumbered as 201st Guards Motorised Brigade.
22nd Guards Brigade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 6th Gren Gds only ever fought as part of 201 Gds Bde never in 22 Gds Bde.
6GG joined 201 Gds Bde in Syria in Oct '42.

A minor point I know but are we bovvered?

Owen

Ron has drawn my attention to the above. Actually 22 Guards Brigade had five redesignations (the definitive one was that of 20 March 1941, a month after GHQ was formed), but one should not confuse redesignations for tactical or intelligence reasons with brigade titles. If you go to the Wikepedia to the page you referred to you will see that it is headed, correctly, 22nd Guards Brigade. I am sure that if you were to ask any veteran who served in 201st Guards Motor Brigade Group or 201st Guards Motor Brigade he would tell you he was in the 22nd Guards Brigade.

I suppose I could have said, more accurately, '22nd Guards Brigade (redesignated 201st Guards Motor Brigade)' but it's a little late now.

(I have attached the relevant page from the official Orders of Battle - Second World War 1939-45, for which I have a 5 year copyright licence agreement from the Cabinet Office - Her Majesty's Stationery Office to do so.)

Peter