The unit was formed on 3 September 1939 as a 2nd Line Territorial Army Tank Brigade, but had very few tanks. On 28 May 1940, it was converted to the 2nd Motor Machine Gun Brigade in recognition of this lack of tanks, but converted back to an Army Tank Brigade on 10 December 1940. It was redesignated the 25th Tank Brigade on 1 June 1942.[1]
It fought in Tunisia under the British First Army and in the Italy as part of the British Eighth Army.
^"Organization of British Tank Brigades Structure and Brigade Elemental Assignments by Regiment 1939-1945" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015. citing Joslen 1960
References
Hughes, David; Ryan, David A.; Rothwell, Steve (2002). Volume Four: British Tank and Armoured Brigades, 79th Armoured Division, Armoured Car Regiments, African, Malayan and other Colonial Forces. The British Armies in World War Two: An Organizational History. George F. Nafziger. ISBN 1-58545-085-5.
Joslen, H. F. (2003) [1960]. Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1.