page_title: 27th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)
section_title: Post Second World War
hierarchical_section_title: 27th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) / Unit history / Post Second World War
caption_attribution_description: English: Yongju area, North Korea, In the foreground, seated left and leaning forward, Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad , Commander of the 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade, pores over a map with Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col) Man, Commander 1st Battalion Middlesex Regiment (with moustache) and 2/37504 Lt Col Charles Hercules Green (front, right), Commanding Officer (CO) of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). The men are discussing the engagement, known as the Battle of the Apple Orchard, in which 3RAR had just defeated a large force of North Koreans and broken through to the beleaguered Americans of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Regiment, US Army. Wearing helmets, several members of this American unit are standing in the background. On 1 November 1950 Lt Col Green died of wounds caused by shellfire while he was asleep in his tent near the Tokchon River on 31 October. Sitting in the midground (right) and wearing a tam o' shanter cap is Major I D McN Reith, 1st Battalion, The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed on 27 October 1950.
context_page_description: The 27th Infantry Brigade was an infantry brigade of the British Army that saw service in the First World War, the Second World War, and the Korean War. In Korea, the brigade was known as 27th British Commonwealth Brigade due to the addition of Canadian, Australian, New Zealand and Indian units.
context_section_description: The Brigade was reformed in 1948 and sent out to Hong Kong, but was then sent on to Korea at the outbreak of the Korean War, where Major Kenneth Muir of the Argylls was awarded the Victoria Cross in September 1950.
  Soon after arriving in Korea, the brigade was in action, being involved in the defence of the Pusan Perimeter, on 29 August 1950, and the UN offensive to link with the Inchon landings. The brigade was joined in September 1950 by an Australian contingent, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR), and in December 1950 by the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. At this time the brigade had few of the support units that were a normal feature of other Commonwealth units in Korea, and were always at a disadvantage in this respect, being reliant on US support units.
  After further action during the retreat from the Yalu River, the Chinese Winter Offensive (including Third Battle of Seoul in January 1951) and the UN counter-offensive. The Brigade was joined by the specially raised 16 Field Regiment Royal New Zealand Artillery in January 1951, and then a Canadian infantry battalion in February.  The brigade's final action was during the Battle of Kapyong in April 1951. Both the Argylls and Middlesex Regiment were relieved and the brigade was disbanded, to be replaced by the fully constituted 28th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade, part of 1st Commonwealth Division.
caption: An "orders group" of battalion commanders of the 27th British Commonwealth Infantry Brigade in Korea on 22 Oct 1950, following the Battle of Yongju. In the foreground, seated left and leaning forward, is Brigadier Basil Aubrey Coad. Behind them are officers of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Airborne Infantry Regiment of the US Army, who had just been extricated by the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
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