British Cavalry Corps order of battle 1914
Further information: British cavalry during the First World War
The First World War British Cavalry Corps was formed 9 October 1914.[1]
Command
- Commander Lieutenant-General Edmund Allenby
- Chief of Staff Colonel John Vaughan
- Colonel G S Brigadier-General George Barrow
- Brigadier-General Royal Artillery B. F. Drake [1]
1st Cavalry Division
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Defensive position built by the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards in August 1914
- Major-General Beauvoir De Lisle
- GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel A F Home
1st Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General Charles James Briggs
- 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
- 1st Signal Troop [1]
2nd Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General R L Mullens
- 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
- 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
- 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
- Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars from 31 October to 11 November
- 2nd Signal Troop [1]
1st Division troops
- VII Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
- H Battery, RHA
- I Battery, RHA
- VII RHA Brigade Ammunition Column
- 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers
- 1st Signal Squadron Royal Engineers
- 1st Cavalry Division Supply Column Army Service Corps
- 1st Cavalry Field Ambulance
- 3rd Cavalry Field Ambulance [1]
2nd Cavalry Division
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Squadron from the 1st Life Guards August 1914, attached to the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment preparing to leave for France.
- Major-General Hubert Gough
- GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel W H Greenly [1]
3rd Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General John Vaughan
- 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
- 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
- 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
- 3rd Signal Troop [2]
4th Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General Cecil Edward Bingham
- Household Cavalry Composite Regiment to 11 November
- 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
- 3rd (King's Own) Hussars
- Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars from 11 November
- 4th Signal Troop [2]
5th Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General Philip Chetwode
- 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
- 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
- 20th Hussars
- 5th Signal Troop [2]
2nd Division troops
- III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
- D Battery, RHA
- E Battery, RHA
- J Battery, RHA
- III RHA Brigade Ammunition Column
- 2nd Field Squadron Royal Engineers
- 2nd Signal Squadron Royal Engineers
- 2nd Cavalry Division Supply Column Army Service Corps
- 2nd Cavalry Field Ambulance
- 4th Cavalry Field Ambulance
- 5th Cavalry Field Ambulance [2]
3rd Cavalry Division
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Soldier from the 3rd Cavalry Division in Belgium 13 October 1914
Joined the Cavalry Corps 25 October
- Major-General Julian Byng
- GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel M F Gage
- Commander RHA Lieutenant-Colonel C H de Rougemont [3]
6th Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General Ernest Makins
- 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
- 1st (Royal) Dragoons
- 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars to 20 November
- North Somerset Yeomanry from 13 November [3]
7th Cavalry Brigade
- Brigadier-General Charles Kavanagh
- 1st Life Guards
- 2nd Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards to 20 November
- Leicestershire Yeomanry from 12 November [3]
8th Cavalry Brigade
- Formed 20 November
- Brigadier-General Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson
- Royal Horse Guards
- 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
- Essex Yeomanry from 10 December [3]
3rd Division troops
- XV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (later renumbered as IV Brigade, RHA)
- K Battery, RHA
- C Battery, RHA from 19 October
- G Battery, RHA from 25 November
- XV (later IV) RHA Brigade Ammunition Column
- 3rd Field Squadron Royal Engineers
- 3rd Signal Squadron Royal Engineers
- 3rd Cavalry Division Supply Column
- 6th Cavalry Field Ambulance
- 7th Cavalry Field Ambulance [3][4]
See also
References
Bibliography
- Edmunds, J.E. (1925). History of the Great War. Military Operations, France and Belgium 1914. History of the Great War. Volume II. Macmillan & Co. ISBN 9781845747176