{"id":15262,"date":"2025-11-15T09:04:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=15262"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:34:56","slug":"accounts-of-the-brigade-commanders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/accounts-of-the-brigade-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Accounts of the Brigade Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Brigadier Nelson Russell – From November 1942 to February 1944<\/strong>.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Nelson Russell was Commanding Officer of the Irish Brigade from July 1942 to February 1944 and had been commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers during the First World War and had commanded the home based 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1940 to 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Algeria\/Tunisia<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Sicily<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Adriatic<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brigadier T.P.D. (Pat) Scott – From February 1944 to July 1945.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pat Scott served as commanding officer of the Irish Brigade from February 1944 to May 1945, and continued in that role while the brigade undertook painstakingly difficult peacekeeping duties during the immediate post war period in southern Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott had been commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers in 1924 and was a company commander with the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (1 RIrF) in France during 1939 and 1940. He was Commanding Officer of 1 RIrF during the first stage of the Tunisian campaign before taking over as CO of the 2nd Battalion, London Irish Rifles for a short period in March 1943. He became Brigade Commander of 12 and then 128 Brigades during 1943 and early 1944 in Italy and when Nelson Russell was hospitalised in February 1944, Brigadier Scott would take over command of the Irish Brigade as they moved into the Cassino sector and remained in that position until the end of the war in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Liri Valley <\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Ripi<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Rome<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Trasimeno<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Egypt<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Monte Spaduro<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
San Clemente<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Casa Tamagnin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Forli<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Senio Floodbanks<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
St Patrick’s Day<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Argenta Gap<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Kangaroo Army<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Reaching the River Po<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Austria<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Settling Frontiers<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Balkan Troubles<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Postscript<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Awards<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Brigadier Nelson Russell – From November 1942 to February 1944. Nelson Russell was Commanding Officer of the Irish Brigade from July 1942 to February 1944 and had been commissioned into the Royal Irish Fusiliers during the First World War and had commanded the home based 6th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers from 1940 to 1942. Brigadier T.P.D. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15215,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15262","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":88,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23130,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15262\/revisions\/23130"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}