List of Australian Army brigades
This is a list of the brigades raised by the Australian Army. The list includes brigades that served in World War I, World War II, Vietnam and the present-day brigades.
Current active brigades
World War I
Light horse
- 1st Light Horse Brigade
- 2nd Light Horse Brigade
- 3rd Light Horse Brigade
- 4th Light Horse Brigade
- 5th Light Horse Brigade
Infantry
- 1st Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Infantry Brigade
- 3rd Infantry Brigade
- 4th Infantry Brigade
- 5th Infantry Brigade
- 6th Infantry Brigade
- 7th Infantry Brigade
- 8th Infantry Brigade
- 9th Infantry Brigade
- 10th Infantry Brigade
- 11th Infantry Brigade
- 12th Infantry Brigade
- 13th Infantry Brigade
- 14th Infantry Brigade
- 15th Infantry Brigade
- 16th Infantry Brigade
- 17th Infantry Brigade
World War II
Armoured
- 1st Armoured Brigade
- 2nd Armoured Brigade
- 3rd Army Tank Brigade
- 4th Armoured Brigade
- 6th Armoured Brigade
Cavalry
Support Group
Motor
- 1st Motor Brigade
- 2nd Motor Brigade
- 3rd Motor Brigade
- 4th Motor Brigade
- 5th Motor Brigade
- 6th Motor Brigade
Infantry
- 1st Infantry Brigade
- 2nd Infantry Brigade
- 3rd Infantry Brigade
- 4th Infantry Brigade
- 5th Infantry Brigade
- 6th Infantry Brigade
- 7th Infantry Brigade
- 8th Infantry Brigade
- 9th Infantry Brigade
- 10th Infantry Brigade
- 11th Infantry Brigade
- 12th Infantry Brigade
- 13th Infantry Brigade
- 14th Infantry Brigade
- 15th Infantry Brigade
- 16th Infantry Brigade
- 17th Infantry Brigade
- 18th Infantry Brigade
- 19th Infantry Brigade
- 20th Infantry Brigade
- 21st Infantry Brigade
- 22nd Infantry Brigade
- 23rd Infantry Brigade
- 24th Infantry Brigade
- 25th Infantry Brigade
- 26th Infantry Brigade
- 27th Infantry Brigade
- 28th Infantry Brigade
- 29th Infantry Brigade
- 30th Infantry Brigade
- 31st Infantry Brigade
- 32nd Infantry Brigade
- 33rd Infantry Brigade
Garrison
- 1st Garrison Brigade
- 2nd Garrison Brigade
- 3rd Garrison Brigade
- 5th Garrison Brigade
Training
- 1st Training Brigade
- 2nd Division Infantry Training Brigade
- 4th Training Brigade
- 6th Training Brigade
- 7th Training Brigade
- 9th Training Brigade
Artillery
The following artillery formations were all called brigades by the army but with three batteries assigned they were only the size of an artillery regiment.
Anti Aircraft Artillery
- 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade
Field artillery
- 1st Field Brigade
- 2nd Field Brigade
- 3rd Field Brigade
- 4th Field Brigade
- 5th Field Brigade
- 6th Field Brigade
- 7th Field Brigade
- 8th Field Brigade
- 9th Field Brigade
- 10th Field Brigade
- 11th Field Brigade
- 12th Field Brigade
- 13th Field Brigade
- 14th Field Brigade
- 15th Field Brigade
- 18th Field Brigade
- 21st Field Brigade
- 22nd Field Brigade
Medium Artillery
- 1st Medium Brigade
- 2nd Medium Brigade
Heavy Artillery
- 1st Heavy Brigade
- 2nd Heavy Brigade
- 3rd Heavy Brigade
- 5th Heavy Brigade
- 6th Heavy Brigade
- 7th Heavy Brigade
Occupation of Japan
- 34th Brigade (part of the BCOF and later renamed to 1st Brigade)
Vietnam
Further reading
- Blaxland, John (1989). Organising an Army: The Australian Experience 1957–1965. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence. Vol. 50. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0731505301.
- Kuring, Ian (2004). Red Coats to Cams: A History of Australian Infantry 1788 to 2001. Sydney: Australian Military History Publications. ISBN 1-876439-99-8.
- Palazzo, Albert (2001). The Australian Army: A History of its Organisation 1901–2001. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-551507-2.