page_title: 71st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
section_title: Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: 71st Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) / Second World War
caption_attribution_description: English: Infantry of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 53rd Division, in forward positions outside Heike on the road to Hertogenbosch in Holland, 23 October 1944. Infantry of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 53rd Division, in forward positions outside Heike on the road to Hertogenbosch in Holland, 23 October 1944.
context_page_description: The 71st Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade formation of the British Army that saw active service during both the First and Second world wars.
context_section_description: The 71st Infantry Brigade was reformed in the Second World War on 28 November 1940, by the redesignation of the Headquarters of 3rd London Infantry Brigade. On 12 December it was again redesignated 71st Independent Infantry Brigade. The new 71st Brigade consisted of three infantry battalions raised earlier in the year specifically for war service, the 7th King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) and 8th and 9th York and Lancaster Regiment The battalions were all transferred to British India on 14 June 1942 and the brigade ceased to be independent and was again redesignated 71st Infantry Brigade. On the same date, the battalions in the brigade were replaced by the 1st Battalion (a Regular unit) of the East Lancashire Regiment and 1st (also Regular) and 13th (a war service battalion) Highland Light Infantry (the 13th were later replaced by 1st Ox and Bucks). Again on 14 June brigade became part of the 42nd Armoured Division, previously the 42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division.
  In late 1943 42nd Armoured was disbanded and the 71st Brigade replaced the 31st Tank Brigade and became part of the 53rd (Welsh) Infantry Division. It fought with the division throughout the Campaign in North West Europe, before finally being disbanded in March 1946. It was commanded by Brigadier D.H. Haugh. During Operation Veritable, the Battle of the Reichswald, in early 1945 Lieutenant Tony Paget, son of General Sir Bernard Paget, of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
caption: Infantry of the 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in forward positions outside Heike on the road to 's-Hertogenbosch, Holland, 23 October 1944.
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