NAM.2001-04-323-1

Colour sticker for the emblem of the Wessex Brigade, ‘WESSEX’, 1960 (c). Photolithograph on adhesive plastic, backed by 3M ‘Controltac’ film, printed by the Army Sign Centre, 1960 (c). Gold dragon standing to left, front leg raised, on green ground, the letters ‘WESSEX’ below gold as title. The Wessex Brigade was an administrative grouping of the infantry, formed in 1948. It comprised The Devonshire Regiment, The Dorset Regiment, The Gloucestershire Regiment, The Royal Hampshire Regiment, The Royal Berkshire Regiment and The Wiltshire Regiment (although during this period some of the names of the regiments changed as they were merged). The Regiments of the Wessex Brigade were absorbed into The Prince of Wales’s Division in 1968.