The 113th Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:[1]
13th (Service) Battalion (1st North Wales),
Royal Welsh Fusiliers (from November 1914)
14th (Service) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (from November 1914)
15th (Service) Battalion (1st London Welsh), Royal Welsh Fusiliers (from November 1914, disbanded February 1918)
16th (Service) Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers (from November 1914)
17th (Service) Battalion (2nd North Wales), Royal Welsh Fusiliers (from February 1915, left July 1915)
113th Machine Gun Company,
Machine Gun Corps (from 19 May 1916, moved to 38th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps March 1918)
113th Trench Mortar Battery (from 26 December 1915)
Second World War
The brigade and division were both disbanded after the war, but were reformed in the
Territorial Army (TA), the British Army's part-time reserve force, in the latter half of 1939 as war with
Nazi Germany seemed increasingly likely. As a consequence of this, the Territorial Army was ordered to be doubled in size, with each unit forming a 2nd Line duplicate. The
38th (Welsh) Infantry Division was reconstituted as was the brigade, now the 113th Infantry Brigade. The 113th Brigade, under the command of
BrigadierLlewellyn Alston, was formed as a duplicate of the
160th Infantry Brigade and initially consisted of two TA battalions, the 15th and 2/5th, of the
Welch Regiment and one, the 4th, of the
Monmouthshire Regiment. However, the brigade never saw active service outside the
United Kingdom during the
Second World War and was reduced to a Lower Establishment and eventually became a training brigade.
Order of battle
The 113th Infantry Brigade was constituted as follows during the war:[2]