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The '''17th Indian Infantry Brigade''' was an [[infantry]] [[brigade]] formation of the [[Indian Army during World War II]].

==History==
[[File:The British Army in Italy 1943 NA10438.jpg|thumb|left|Men of the 1st Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers]] operate a captured German Marder 75mm self-propelled gun, 30 December 1943.]]

It was formed in November 1940, at the [[Delhi Cantonment]] in [[British Raj|India]] and assigned to the [[8th Infantry Division (India)|8th Indian Infantry Division]]. They were sent to participate in the [[Anglo-Iraqi War]] and the [[Syria-Lebanon Campaign]] and came under command of the [[10th Indian Infantry Division]] between July and August 1941. Returning to the 8th Indian Division in September 1941, at the end of the [[Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran]], they were sent to [[Egypt]]. They then spent 1942, as a garrison force in Syria. It then took part in the [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|Italian Campaign]] from September 1943 to August 1945. It was briefly coming under command of the [[78th Infantry Division (United Kingdom)|British 78th Infantry Division]] between 3 and 7 November 1943.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2009-10-23|publisher=Order of Battle|title=17 Indian Brigade|url=http://www.ordersofbattle.com/UnitData.aspx?UniX=1418&Tab=Sup}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Units==
*1st Battalion, [[5 Gorkha Rifles (Frontier Force) |5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)]] November 1940 to July 1941 and October 1941 to August 1945
*1st Battalion, [[12th Frontier Force Regiment]] May 1941 to June 1945
*32nd Field Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]] July 1941
*1st Battalion, [[King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)]] July to December 1941
*1st Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers]] December 1941 to June 1945
*144th Field Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]] July to August 1942
*50th [[Royal Tank Regiment]] November 1943
*52nd Field Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]] November 1943
*166th Field Regiment, [[Royal Artillery]] November 1943
*[[11th Canadian Armoured Regiment]] April to May 1944 and August 1944
*6th Battalion, [[13th Frontier Force Rifles]] June 1944
*4th Anti Tank Regiment, [[Indian Artillery]] August 1944
*[[6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]] August 1944
*5th Battalion, [[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]] August 1944
*1st Battalion, [[Jaipur Infantry]] December 1944 to April 1945 <ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2009-10-23|publisher=Order of Battle|title=17 Indian Brigade Units|url=http://www.ordersofbattle.com/UnitData.aspx?UniX=1418&Tab=Sub}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==Commanders==
*Brigadier [[John Geoffrey Bruce]] (Nov 1940 – May 1941)
*Brigadier [[Douglas Gracey]] (May 1941 – Mar 1942)
*Brigadier [[F.A.M.B. Jenkins]] (Mar 1942 – Oct 1943)
*Brigadier H.L. Wyndham (Oct 1943 – Nov 1943)
*Brigadier [[James Scott-Elliot]] (Nov 1943 – Jan 1944)
*Brigadier [[Charles Hamilton Boucher]] (Feb 1944 – Jan 1945)
*Brigadier Playford Rawdon Macnamara (Jan 1945 – Aug 1945)

==See also==
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* [[List of Indian Army Brigades in World War II]]

==References==
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