52nd Infantry Brigade ( United Kingdom ) The 52nd Infantry Brigade is a Scottish formation in the British Army . It was formed and disbanded several times during the 20th Century . History . It began its existence in September 1914 as a formation of the 17th ( Northern ) Division during the First World War . It spent the whole war with the Division on the Western Front , until May 1919 when it was disbanded . The Brigade was reformed in September 1943 as a training formation for jungle warfare reinforcements . It was redesignated as Headquarters Training Group on 1 August 1945 , and then disbanded later , possibly in 1946 . 52nd ( Lowland ) Division . However the dominant historical threads behind the current 52nd Infantry Brigade comes from the famed 52nd Lowland Division . It was initially deployed to Gallipoli during World War I , sent to the Middle East , and moved to France in March 1918 . It was later reformed in the Territorial Army in the interwar period . During World War II it was deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force , the Division was evacuated along with rest of the army from Dunkirk , and then trained before D - Day as both an airlanding and a mountain division . However , it was deployed to mainland Europe finally in November 1944 as a conventional infantry formation and fought in North Western Europe for the remainder of the war . Reformed . The Territorial Army in Scotland re - raised the 51st / 52nd Scottish Division in the late 1940s , which was in existence until the TA was disbanded and reorganised as the TAVR in 1967 . In 1968 the Division was split into two brigade level districts based in the Highlands and Lowlands , with the Lowland District Headquarters in Hamilton , near Glasgow . The Brigade was reformed in 1982 from that Lowland District , as 52nd ( Lowland ) Brigade . As 52 Lowland Brigade it consisted of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 52nd Lowland Volunteers , as well as other TA units in the Scottish Lowlands . The Brigade was retitled 52 Infantry Brigade on 1 April 2002 , taking command of Regular Army units in Scotland and the North West of England and giving up its regional and TA responsibilities to 51 Scottish Brigade . This freed 52 Brigade to parent regular light role battalions for operational deployments . 52 Infantry Brigade was transferred to 3rd ( UK ) Division on 1 April 2007 . However the Brigade was only used once operationally for 1 deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 / 08 and since that time the Brigade has returned to once again focus on more Regional tasks including being a Regional Training Centre and involvement in the Edinburgh Tattoo . The headquarters of 52 Infantry Brigade was located at Edinburgh ' s Redford Barracks , with some administrative functions located in the New Barrack Block at Edinburgh Castle . Component units today . The Brigade consists today of the Brigade HQ which is split between Redford Barracks and Edinburgh Castle and the following units : Operation Herrick VII . In July 2007 , it was announced that 52 Infantry Brigade , under the command of Brigadier Andrew Mackay would provide the command element for the UK Task Force on Operation Herrick VII in Afghanistan . They served in Afghanistan between September 7 and March 8 , and were relieved in spring 2008 by 16 Air Assault Brigade . During the time that the Brigade were in Afghanistan , they successfully retook the strategic Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala . Brigadier MacKay subsequently received a CBE for his work . Fatal Casualties Operation Herrick VII