Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (from 26 October 1939) 36th Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Company (formed 18 August 1940, disbanded 20 June 1941) 8th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (from 21 August 1942) 181st Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (from 10 December 1941 until 22 June 1942) Commanders The following officers commanded the brigade during the war: Brigadier G.R.P. Roupell (until 20 May 1940, MIA) Brigadier A.L. Kent-Lemon (from 1 July 1940 until 17 December 1942) Brigadier B. Howlett (from 17 December 1942, KIA 29 November 1943) Lieutenant Colonel P.E.O. Bryan (Acting, from 30 November to 3 December 1943) Brigadier J.L. Spencer (from 3 December 1943 until 2 May 1944) Brigadier J.G. James (from 2 May 1944, KIA 16 June 1944) Brigadier C.D. Packard (from 27 June until 20 December 1944) Brigadier G.R.D. Musson (from 20 December 1944 until 7 June 1945) Lieutenant Colonel A.J. Odling-Smee (Acting, from 7 June until 11 July 1945) Brigadier G.R.D. Musson (from 11 July 1945) Recipients of the Victoria Cross Corporal George Jarratt, 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Great War Lieutenant Colonel Neville Elliott-Cooper, 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Great War References Bibliography Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II