23rd Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom) tanks from the newly arrived 24th Armoured Brigade and it was retrained as an infantry support unit, although it was not renamed as an Army Tank Brigade as would have been appropriate. On 11 August 1942, the 7th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own) was transferred to the 7th Motor Brigade, then part of the 7th Armoured Division but later became part of the 1st Armoured Division. During the Battle of Alam el Halfa in September, the brigade was initially in XXX Corps reserve but was transferred to the 10th Armoured Division, XIII Corps. Before the Second Battle of
5th Armoured Division (Syria) 5th Armoured Division (Syria) The 5th Mechanized Division is a division of the Syrian Arab Army. The 5th Division, at that time an infantry formation, invaded Jordan during the events of Black September in Jordan, 1970. It was reinforced with two armoured brigades. After an ineffectual defence by the massively outnumbered Jordanian 40th Armoured Brigade, the 5th Division's attack was repelled with heavy losses on 22 September 1970 mostly through the efforts of the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The 5th Division also saw action on the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur War, being deployed alongside the 1st, 3rd, 7th,