British Cavalry Corps order of battle 1914
The First World War British Cavalry Corps was formed 9 October 1914.[1]
Command
[edit]- 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 commanded just two brigades until the 9th Cavalry Brigade was formed on 14 April 1915.[2]
- Major-General Beauvoir De Lisle
- GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel A F Home
- 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]
- Brigadier-General R L Mullens
- 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
- 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
- 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
- 1/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars from 31 October to 11 November
- 2nd Signal Troop [1]
1st Division troops
[edit]- 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]
- Major-General Hubert Gough
- GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel W H Greenly [1]
- Brigadier-General John Vaughan
- 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
- 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
- 16th (The Queen's) Lancers
- 3rd Signal Troop [3]
- Brigadier-General Cecil Edward Bingham
- Household Cavalry Composite Regiment to 11 November
- 6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)
- 3rd (King's Own) Hussars
- 1/1st Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars from 11 November
- 4th Signal Troop [3]
- Brigadier-General Philip Chetwode
- 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
- 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
- 20th Hussars
- 5th Signal Troop [3]
2nd Division troops
[edit]- 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 [3]
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 [4]
- 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
- 1/1st North Somerset Yeomanry from 13 November [4]
- Brigadier-General Charles Kavanagh
- 1st Life Guards
- 2nd Life Guards
- Royal Horse Guards to 20 November
- 1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry from 12 November [4]
- Formed 20 November
- Brigadier-General Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson
- Royal Horse Guards
- 10th (Prince of Wales's Own Royal) Hussars
- 1/1st Essex Yeomanry from 10 December [4]
3rd Division troops
[edit]- 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 [4][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f Edmonds 1925, p. 476
- ^ Becke 1935, p. 5
- ^ a b c d Edmonds 1925, p. 477
- ^ a b c d e Edmonds 1925, p. 379
- ^ Edmonds 1925, p. 380
Bibliography
[edit]- Becke, Major A.F. (1935). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 1-871167-09-4.
- Edmonds, J.E. (1925). Military Operations France and Belgium, 1914: Antwerp, La Bassée, Armentières, Messines and Ypres October–November 1914. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. Vol. II (1st ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-184574717-6. OCLC 220044986.