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=== Unit histories === | === Unit histories === | ||
Revision as of 17:07, 1 April 2016
| Nigerian Brigade | |
|---|---|
| Years active: | – |
| Country: | Nigeria |
| Service: | British colonial forces |
| Branch: | unknown |
| Type: | Infantry |
| Specific type: | Infantry brigade |
| Full size: | 4000 |
| Sources for overview: | |
| Created: | |
| Sources for created: | |
| Alternate names: | |
| Sources for alternate names: | |
| Disbanded: | |
| Sources for disbanded: | |
| For more information on what infobox fields mean, see documentation at military unit, command structure and theatre of war. | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Subordinate unit: | 1st Service Battalion Nigeria Regiment |
| Subordinate level: | Battalion |
| Start date: | 01/11/1916 |
| End date: | 31/10/1917 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Subordinate unit: | 2nd Service Battalion Nigeria Regiment |
| Subordinate level: | Battalion |
| Start date: | 01/01/1917 |
| End date: | 31/10/1917 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Subordinate unit: | 3rd Service Battalion Nigeria Regiment |
| Subordinate level: | Battalion |
| Start date: | 01/11/1916 |
| End date: | 30/09/1917 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Subordinate unit: | 4th Service Battalion Nigeria Regiment |
| Subordinate level: | Battalion |
| Start date: | 01/09/1916 |
| End date: | 31/10/1917 |
| Sources: | |
| Command structure | |
|---|---|
| Relationship type: | Tactical |
| Subordinate unit: | Gambia Company |
| Subordinate level: | Battalion |
| Start date: | 01/04/1917 |
| End date: | 31/10/1917 |
| Sources: | |
Contents
Personal narratives
Related media
A post about the West African Frontier Force on the National Archives blog goes into some detail on the war record of Regimental Sergeant Major Belo Akure, DCM, MM, and includes photographs and pages from various war diaries.
Official sources
Unit war diaries
Official war diaries for this unit have not yet been located. If you know where they are, please use the appropriate template to add links and archival references:
- {{War diary TNA}} for the UK National Archives
- {{War diary AWM}} for the Australian War Memorial
We don't yet have templates for diaries held at other archives but you can manually create links to them and add the page to Category:Units with official war diaries.
If you know that no diaries exist, please add:
- {{War diary none admin}} for administrative organisations with no operational role
- {{War diary none continental}} for infantry battalions in the continental system where diaries were only kept at regiment level and above
- {{War diary none}} for all other units or formations
Unit histories
- Walter Douglas Downes, With the Nigerians in German East Africa (London, Methuen, 1919). Available at Internet Archive
