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8th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)
The
8th Armoured Brigade
was an
armoured
brigade
of the
British Army
formed in August 1941, during the
Second World War
and active until 1956. The brigade was formed by the renaming of
6th Cavalry Brigade
, when the
1st Cavalry Division
based in
Palestine
(of which it was part) converted from a motorised formation (having been horse-mounted until January 1940) to an armoured unit, becoming
10th Armoured Division
.
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