9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade

9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade

Units of the brigade at Bazentin Ridge France 1916
Active 1907–1940
Country British India
Allegiance British Crown
Branch British Indian Army
Type cavalry
Size brigade
Part of 9th (Secunderabad) Division
1st Indian Cavalry Division
2nd Indian Cavalry Division
Engagements First World War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		 Michael Rimington
Charles Levinge Gregory

The 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Indian Army formed in 1903, following the reforms of the Indian Army by the then Commander-in-Chief, India General Herbert Kitchener. It retained this title until 1929 when it was renamed 4th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade. It was disbanded in July 1940.

History

The brigade was originally the cavalry formation of the 9th (Secunderabad) Division, but in 1914 it was sent to the Western Front in France as part of the 1st Indian Cavalry Division landing at Marseilles 13 October 1914. Later the brigade was transferred to the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division. Following the standard practise at the time, the brigade was formed with one British and two Indian cavalry regiments and a British artillery battery.[1][2][3]

Among the brigades engagement were the First Battle of Ypres, the Battle of La Bassée, the Battle of Armentières, the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, the Battle of Festubert, the Battle of the Somme, the Battle of Bazentin Ridge, the Battle of Flers–Courcelette and the Battle of Cambrai.[4]

Formation

Commanders
Brigadier-General Michael Rimington: September 1907 – May 1911
Brigadier-General Edmund B. Burton May 1911 – July 1912
Brigadier-General Richard Wapshare: July 1912 – January 1913
Major-General Fredrick William George Wadeson: January 1913 – May 1916
Brigadier-General Charles Levinge Gregory: May 1916 – March 1918
Brigadier-General Howard Kennedy: February 1915
Brigadier-General Francis Henry Bagot Commeline: April 1915 – April 1920
Brigadier-General Aubrey G. Pritchard: April 1920 – January 1921
Brigadier-General Charles Godwin: January 1921–1923
Brigadier-General Guy Beatty: ?-October 1925
Brigadier-General Edward D. Giles: October 1925 – December 1927
Brigadier Alan Campbell Ross: December 1927 – January 1932
Brigadier Alan F. Hartley: January 1932 – September 1933
Brigadier Donald K. McLeod: September 1933 – December 1934
Brigadier George de la P. Beresford: December 1934 – September 1938
Brigadier Mosley Mayne: September 1938–1940[5]
Pre war
7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
7th (Queen's Own) Hussars
20th Deccan Horse
26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry
34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse[6]
Western Front
7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards
20th Deccan Horse
34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse
N Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
9th Indian Machine Gun Squadron
Signal Troop Royal Engineers
September 1939
14/20th King's Hussars [until November 1939]
7th Light Cavalry
Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry [11th Frontier Force] [until October 1939]
4th Cavalry Brigade Signal Troop
3rd Field Regiment, RA (18th, 62nd, 65th, 75th Batteries)

Notes

  1. ↑ Rinaldi, p.330
  2. ↑ Griffith, p.166
  3. ↑ "Dragoon Guards 1914–1918". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "History of the 17th Horse". Bharat Rakshak. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Army Commands 1900–2011". Gulabin. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Rinaldi, pp.330–331

References

  • Griffith, Paddy (1998). British Fighting Methods in the Great War. Routledge. ISBN 9780714634951.
  • Rinaldi, Richard A. (2008). Order of Battle of the British Army 1914. Ravi Rikhye. ISBN 9780977607280.