August 1956, from where they went to Egypt on the aircraft carrier HMS Theseus, reaching Port Said just as the ceasefire was declared. It then went on to Cyprus in 1956. Following operations against EOKA, the brigade was disbanded there in 1963. From 1972, the 3rd Infantry Brigade was headquartered in the Kitchen Hill Factory in Lurgan until moving to the Mahon Road Barracks in Portadown in late 1976, under HQ Northern Ireland and was the HQ element for the security forces which controlled the South Armagh region of Ulster, including several battalions of the Ulster Defence Regiment. In September 1981 the brigade was disbanded and its units divided between 8 Brigade and 39 Brigade. The brigade reformed on 1 July 1988 in the Drumadd Barracks in Armagh. The brigade was disbanded once more on 1 September 2004 and its former units again divided between 8 Brigade and 39 Brigade. In 1989, the 3rd Infantry Brigade had the following structure: HQ 3rd Infantry Brigade & 203rd Signal Squadron, Royal Signals, Armagh 1st Bn, Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment, Omagh 2nd Bn, Ulster Defence Regiment (V) 11th Bn, Ulster Defence Regiment (V) References Sources Joslen, Lt-Col H.F. (2003) [1st pub. HMSO:1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval and Military Press. . Blaxland, Gregory (1979). Alexander's Generals (the Italian Campaign 1944–1945). London: William Kimber. . External links British Army in Operation Banner 003 Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War I Infantry brigades of the British Army in World War II 1809 establishments in the United Kingdom