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{{Infobox military unit
| unit_name = Heavy Armoured Brigade (Egypt)<br />4th Armoured Brigade<br />4th Armoured Brigade Group<br />4th Mechanized Brigade<br />4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East<br />4th Light Brigade Combat Team
| image = Black Rat Patch .jpg
| image_size = 160px
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| size = [[Brigade]]
| command_structure = [[1st (United Kingdom) Division]]
| current_commander = Brigadier
| garrison = [[Catterick Garrison|Catterick]], [[North Yorkshire]]
| battles = [[World War II|Second World War]]
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| subordinate=[[Light Dragoons]] <br /> 1st Battalion, [[Grenadier Guards]] <br /> 1st Battalion, [[Coldstream Guards]] <br /> 2nd Battalion, [[Royal Regiment of Scotland]] <br /> 1st Battalion, [[Duke of Lancaster's Regiment]] <br /> 2nd Battalion, [[The Rifles]] <br /> 1st Battalion, [[Royal Gurkha Rifles]] <br /> [[103rd (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment Royal Artillery|103rd Regiment, Royal Artillery]] <br /> [[75 Engineer Regiment (United Kingdom)|75 Engineer Regiment, RE]] <br /> [[154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC]] <br /> [[102 Battalion REME]]
}}
'''4th Light Brigade Combat Team''', provides light infantry mass, offering significant utility in operate tasks and with the ability to surge ground manoeuvre units by air or sea to reinforce UK forces or partners<ref>{{Cite web |last=British Army |date=2021 |title=Future Soldier |url=https://www.army.mod.uk/media/15057/adr010310-futuresoldierguide_30nov.pdf}}</ref>.Previously known as '''4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East''',
More recently, the Brigade took part in the [[Gulf War|First Gulf War]] and completed a number of tours to the Balkans during the 1990s. The Black Rats have also since deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan as the lead formation.
==History==
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===Cold War era===
The
===Post-Cold War===
4th Armoured Brigade deployed to Bosnia in October 1995 as UNPROFOR [[Multi-National Division (South-West) (Bosnia)|HQ Sector South-West]] and subsequently as the leading UK element of the [[NATO]] [[Implementation Force]] (IFOR).<ref name="global">{{citation |url=http://www.unficyp.org/media/Blue%20Beret%20-%20pdf%20files/2000/Dec_00-Jan_01_magazine.pdf |title=The Blue Beret |issue=December 2000/January 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826172736/http://www.unficyp.org/media/Blue%20Beret%20-%20pdf%20files/2000/Dec_00-Jan_01_magazine.pdf |archive-date=26 August 2012 }}</ref> The Black Rats have since deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, first on [[Operation Herrick]] 12 in 2010; and again in October 2012 for Operation Herrick 17, during which it was working in support of the Afghan Army's 3/215 Brigade and elements of the Afghan National Police.<ref>{{cite news|title=4th Mechanized Brigade to replace 12 Mechanized Brigade in Helmand |url=http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/DefencePolicyAndBusiness/4thMechanizedBrigadeToReplace12thMechanizedBrigadeInHelmand.htm|publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)|MoD]]|date=11 July 2012}}</ref>
=== 4th Infantry Brigade ===
Under [[Army 2020]], the brigade lost its armour and converted to an infantry brigade. The structure of the brigade in 2020 was as follows:<ref
* '''4th Infantry Brigade''', at Peronne Lines, [[Catterick Garrison]]<ref
** [[The Light Dragoons]], at Gaza Barracks, Catterick Garrison (Light Cavalry, 66x [[Jackal (vehicle)|Jackal armoured reconnaissance vehicles]])<ref name="
** [[The Queen's Own Yeomanry]] (Army Reserve), at [[Fenham Barracks]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] (Light Cavalry, 66x Jackal armoured reconnaissance vehicles)<ref name="
** [[Royal Highland Fusiliers|The Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion]], [[The Royal Regiment of Scotland]], at [[Glencorse Barracks]], [[Penicuik]] (Light Infantry)
** 1st Battalion, [[The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment]], at [[Dale Barracks]], [[Chester]] (Light Infantry)
** 2nd Battalion, [[Mercian Regiment]], at [[Weeton Barracks]], [[Blackpool]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mercian Regiment|url=https://www.army.mod.uk/who-we-are/corps-regiments-and-units/infantry/mercian-regiment/|access-date=2021-11-08|website=www.army.mod.uk|language=en-GB}}</ref> (Light Infantry) – arriving back from Cyprus in November 2020<ref
** 1st Battalion, [[Grenadier Guards]], at Lille Barracks, Aldershot Garrison (Light Infantry)
** [[52nd Lowland Volunteers|52nd Lowland Volunteers, 6th Battalion]], The Royal Regiment of Scotland (Army Reserve), at [[Walcheren Barracks]], [[Glasgow]] (Light Infantry) – paired with 2nd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)
** [[Lancastrian and Cumbrian Volunteers|4th Battalion]], The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (Army Reserve), at [[Kimberley Barracks]], [[Preston, Lancashire|Preston]] (Light Infantry) – paired with 1st Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (1 LANCS)
** [[4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment|4th Battalion]], [[Yorkshire Regiment]] (Army Reserve), at [[Worsley Barracks]], [[York]] (Light Infantry) – paired with 2 YORKS until November, then paired with 2nd Battalion, Mercian Regiment (2 MERCIAN)
** [[154 (Scottish) Regiment RLC]], (Army Reserve), at Bothwell House, Dunfermline.
** 75 Regiment Royal Engineers
==Second World War commanders==
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* 2015–2016 Brigadier [[Gerald Strickland (British Army officer)|Gerald Strickland]]
* 2016–2019 Brigadier Oliver Stokes
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* 2022-2023 Brigadier M Mudd
* 2023- Present Brigadier R J Singleton
==See also==
* [[4th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)]]
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* [[British Armoured formations of World War II]]
* [[List of British brigades of the Second World War]]
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{{British mobile brigades of the Second World War}}
[[Category:Infantry brigades of the British Army|4 Mechanised]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1939]]
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