The Brigade is made up of 30 ( IX ) Commando, 40 Commando ( home base: Taunton ), 42 Commando ( Bickleigh, South Hams, Plymouth ) and 45 Commando ( Arbroath, Scotland ), the Commando Logistic Regiment, 539 Assault Squadron Royal Marines, 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery, 24 Commando Regiment Royal Engineers and 1st battalion, The Rifles.

Among which are No. IX Squadron RAF which was formed at Saint-Omer, 14 December 1914 and No. 16 Squadron RAF which was formed on 10 February 1915.

*** Part of No. IX Squadron

From 10 February to 7 April 1945 it was the base for 124 Squadron, at that time a fighter-bomber squadron flying Spitfire IX. HFs, whilst the squadron was bombing V2 launch sites in Holland.

No. 9 Squadron ( otherwise known as No. IX ( Bomber ) Squadron or IX ( B ) Squadron ) of the Royal Air Force was the first in the service to receive the Panavia Tornado, which it currently operates from RAF Marham, Norfolk.

IX ( B ) Squadron reformed in August 1982, becoming the world's first operational Tornado squadron at RAF Honington with the Panavia Tornado GR1, again equipped with WE. 177 nuclear laydown bombs, handed down from the Vulcan force, before moving to RAF Bruggen in 1986.

IX ( B ) Squadron continued its pioneering history by becoming the first squadron to receive the Tornado GR4 in 1999.

IX ( B ) Squadron suffered a devastating loss on March 23, 2003 when one of their aircraft was engaged by a Patriot battery in Kuwait while returning from a mission.

In 2007 IX ( B ) Squadron were the lead squadron in celebrating 25 years of the Tornado GR in service with the Royal Air Force.

2009 saw IX ( B ) Squadron celebrate 95 years of operational service.

* IX Squadron ( Wellington Mk Is, later changing to Mk lAs.

IX ( B ) Squadron reformed at RAF Honington in August 1982, becoming the world's first Panavia Tornado GR1 squadron.

On 25 November 1942 The 107th Observation Squadron, 67th Observation Group, was transferred from RAF Membury to Aldermaston with A-20s, L-4s and Spitfires so that their reconnaissance photographs and visual intelligence would be quickly available to IX Troop Carrier Command.

In August 1942 he was posted to command 64 Squadron on the new Spitfire IX, but after the loss of 11 131 Squadron Spitfires on a escort flight to Morlaix he was leading, Gaze was made the scapegoat and transferred back to 64 Squadron as a flight commander.

There were also specialist units present serving both ADGs and the usual Military Police Company and Station Complement Squadron to guard and run the airfield, The two ADGs at North Witham were the 29th and 33rd ( the 85th ADG was present until February 1944 ) and, apart from their direct control of units on the airfield, they were responsible for seven Service Groups divided into A and B teams, each based with and serving one of the 14 Troop Carrier Groups in the IX TCC.

* No. 16 Squadron RAF ( 1943-1944 ) Supermarine Spitfire V and IX

Gabreski flew the new Supermarine Spitfire Mark IX.

The 376th Bombardment Group, originally organized to support Soviet forces, became part of the IX Bomber Command and flew its first combat missions over the deserts of North Africa.

Returning to the UK in 1944 the squadron flew the Spitfire IX as part of 2 TAF, carrying out a mix of escort and fighter-bombing missions.

He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the second bore gifts and letters from Louis IX of France to Güyük Khan.

Andrew's first mission to the East was when he was asked by the French king Louis IX to go and fetch the Crown of Thorns which had been sold to him by the Latin Emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II in 1238, who was anxious to obtain support for his tottering empire.

In 1392 he entered the service of Pope Boniface IX, first working in Bologna and then in Rome.

In this sense the word baccalarius or baccalaureus first appears at the University of Paris in the 13th century, in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory IX, as applied to scholars still in statu pupillari.

Pope Gregory IX is credited with promulgating the first official collection of canons called the Decretalia Gregorii Noni or Liber Extra ( 1234 ).

Intimate knowledge of some events in the first years of the Peloponnesian War ( VI, 91 ; VII, 133, 233 ; IX, 73 ) indicate that he might have returned to Athens, in which case it is possible that he died there during an outbreak of the plague.

Agriculture is first attested with the Pre-Pottery A and Pre-Pottery B cultures, which developed out of the earlier Epipaleolithic Natufian culture of the region. In the following period the Yarmukian ( c. 8500 – 4300 BCE ), Jericho IX ( Lodian ) and others developed out of the Munhata, culture, which seem to have developed from a fusion of the Harifian and Pre-Pottery B ..

In 2003, DALnet put up their first anycast servers under the name " The IX Concept ", and made irc. dal. net resolve to the anycast IP.

In his letter to Madame de Francueil in 1751, he first pretended that he wasn't rich enough to raise his children but in book IX of the confessions, he gave the true reasons of his choice: " I trembled at the thought of intrusting them to a family ill brought up, to be still worse educated.

* 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

The Minotaur is also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

He was the first cardinal secretary of state to be elected Pope since Clement IX in 1667.

Ovid's first century Roman audience would surely have had a basic knowledge of Polyphemus ' role as an uncivilized cannibal in Book IX of the Odyssey, and this episode gives an amusing contrast to that characterization.

Boniface IX introduced a revenue known as annates perpetuæ, withholding half the first year's income of every benefice granted in the Roman Court.

Saint Rose, beatified by Clement IX, was the first American saint.

But the Patriots were eventually held to negative yardage (- 19 ) throughout the entire first half, and finished with just 123 total yards from scrimmage, the second lowest total yards in Super Bowl history, behind the Minnesota Vikings ( 119 total yards ) in Super Bowl IX.

The first half of Super Bowl IX was a defensive struggle, with the lone score being the first safety in Super Bowl history when Tarkenton was downed in his own end zone.

They were the only team who had lost three Super Bowls ( they had previously lost Super Bowls IV, VIII and IX ), and did not want to be the first one to lose four.

The Steelers joined the Cowboys in their attempt to be the first team to ever win a third Super Bowl, after wins in Super Bowl IX and Super Bowl X. Pittsburgh quarterback Terry Bradshaw had the best season of his career, completing 207 of 368 passes for 2, 915 yards and 28 touchdowns, with 20 interceptions.

* 1254 – King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade ( which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria ) and returns to France.

* 1268 – The House of Bourbon first rises to prominence with the marriage of Robert, Count of Clermont to King Louis IX of France's daughter, Beatrice of Burgundy, heiress to the lordship of Bourbon.

Vsevolod and his first wife Anastasia ( daughter of Constantine IX Monomachos ) had only one known son:

* King Louis IX of France captures Damietta in Egypt, the first major military engagement of the Seventh Crusade.

* King Louis IX of France, having exhausted his funds and being needed at home, abandons the Seventh Crusade ( which he had conducted first in Egypt and then Syria ) and returns to France.