 However, the brigade then came under 2 Indian Division on 1 January 1943.In October 1944, when 2 Indian Division disbanded, the brigade was redesignated again as an lines of communication headquarters, this time as HQ South Iraq Area.The division was re-raised after the 1962 Sino-Indian War in 1962 as a Mountain Division responsible for conduct of counter-insurgency operations in upper Assam and some parts of Western Assam.