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| subordinate = [[Light Dragoons]] <br /> [[Queen's Own Yeomanry]] <br /> 2nd Battalion, [[Yorkshire Regiment]] <br /> 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment <br /> [[Royal Highland Fusiliers]] <br /> [[52nd Lowland Volunteers]]
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'''4th Infantry Brigade and Headquarters North East''', previously known as '''4th Mechanized Brigade''' and before that '''4th Armoured Brigade''' is a [[brigade]] formation of the [[British Army]], currently based in [[Catterick Garrison|Catterick]], North Yorkshire as part of [[1st (United Kingdom) Division]].<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/4brigade |title=4th Mechanized Brigade |publisher=British Army |access-date= 15 February 2017}}</ref> The brigade, now known as the 'Black Rats', was formed in 1939 and fought in the [[World War II|Second World War]] in the [[Western Desert Campaign]] in [[North African Campaign|North Africa]]. The Black Rats were subsequently involved in the [[Allied invasion of Sicily|invasion of Sicily]] and [[Italian Campaign (World War II)|fighting in Italy]] before taking part in the [[Operation Overlord|Battle of Normandy]] and the advance through [[Western Front (World War II)|Belgium, Holland and into Germany]].<ref>Brigadier RMP Carter (1945). ''The History of the 4th Armoured Brigade''. {{ISBN|978-1470119645}}.</ref>
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