# British Cavalry Corps order of battle 1914

The First World War British Cavalry Corps was formed 9 October 1914.

## 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

## 1st Cavalry Division

1st Cavalry Division commanded just two brigades until the 9th Cavalry Brigade was formed on 14 April 1915.
    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

### 2nd Cavalry Brigade

    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

### 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

## 2nd Cavalry Division

    Major-General Hubert Gough
    GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel W H Greenly

### 3rd Cavalry Brigade

    Brigadier-General John Vaughan
    4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
    5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
    16th (The Queen's) Lancers
    3rd Signal Troop

### 4th Cavalry Brigade

    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

### 5th Cavalry Brigade

    Brigadier-General Philip Chetwode
    2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
    12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers
    20th Hussars
    5th Signal Troop

### 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

## 3rd Cavalry Division

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

### 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
    1/1st North Somerset Yeomanry from 13 November

### 7th Cavalry Brigade

    Brigadier-General Charles Kavanagh
    1st Life Guards
    2nd Life Guards
    Royal Horse Guards to 20 November
    1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry from 12 November

### 8th Cavalry Brigade

    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

### 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