230th Brigade ( United Kingdom ) The 3rd Dismounted Brigade was a formation of the British Army in World War I . It was formed in Egypt in February 1916 by absorbing the Eastern Mounted Brigade and the South Eastern Mounted Brigade . The brigade served as part of the Western Frontier Force and the Suez Canal Defences . In January 1917 , the brigade was reorganized and redesignated as the 230th Brigade and joined the 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division in March . It served with the division in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and on the Western Front . 3rd Dismounted Brigade . The 3rd Dismounted Brigade , commanded by Henry Hodgson , was formed in Egypt on 22 February 1916 by absorbing the Eastern Mounted Brigade and the South Eastern Mounted Brigade . The Eastern Mounted Brigade had served dismounted in the Gallipoli Campaign from 8 October to 19 December 1915 attached to the 54th ( East Anglian ) Division . Similarly , the South Eastern Mounted Brigade served in Gallipoli from 8 October to 30 December 1915 attached to the 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division . Both brigades were withdrawn to Egypt in December 1915 and formed part of the Suez Canal Defences . The 2nd Dismounted Brigade was formed with the following composition : The brigade served as part of the Suez Canal Defences from 14 March to 26 July attached to 42nd ( East Lancashire ) Division ; it then joined the Western Frontier Force . By the end of the year , it was back on the Suez . 230th Brigade . The brigade was with the Suez Canal Defences when , on 14 January 1917 , Egyptian Expeditionary Force ( EEF ) Order No . 26 instructed that the 2nd , 3rd and 4th Dismounted Brigade s be reorganized as the 229th , 230th and 231st Brigades . Consequently , the 3rd Dismounted Brigade was redesignated 230th Brigade on 14 January . The brigade units were reorganized in January and February 1917 : The remaining yeomanry regiment , 1 / 1st Welsh Horse , was amalgamated with 1 / 1st Montgomeryshire Yeomanry of 4th Dismounted Brigade at Helmie on 4 March 1917 and redesignated 25th ( Montgomery and Welsh Horse Yeomanry ) Battalion , Royal Welsh Fusiliers . It joined 231st Brigade on 5 April . On 23 February , the GOC EEF ( Lt - Gen Sir A . J . Murray ) sought permission from the War Office to form the 229th , 230th and 231st Brigades into a new division . The War Office granted permission and the new 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division started to form . The 230th Brigade joined the division at Deir el Balah between 9 and 13 April . 230th Brigade remained with 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division for the rest of the war . Palestine 1917 - 18 . With the 74th Division , the brigade took part in the invasion of Palestine in 1917 and 1918 . It fought in the Second and Third Battles of Gaza ( including the capture of Beersheba and the Sheria Position ) . At the end of 1917 , it took part in the capture and defence of Jerusalem and in March 1918 in the Battle of Tell ' Asur . On 3 April 1918 , the Division was warned that it would move to France and by 30 April 1918 had completed embarkation at Alexandria . Before departure for France , the 209th Machine Gun Company joined 4th ( of 229th Brigade ) , 210th ( of 231st Brigade ) and 261st MG Companies to form 74th Battalion , Machine Gun Corps . It concentrated at Alexandria between 17 and 30 April and departed for France with the division on the latter date . France and Flanders 1918 . In May 1918 , the brigade landed at Marseilles , France with 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division . It served in France and Flanders with the division for the rest of the war . By 18 May , the division had concentrated around Rue in the Abbeville area . Here the dismounted Yeomanry underwent training for service on the Western Front , particularly gas defence . Due to a lack of replacements , infantry divisions on the Western Front had been reduced from 12 to 9 battalions in January and February 1918 . To conform with this new structure , on 21 June , 12th Royal Scots Fusiliers ( of 229th Brigade ) , 12th Norfolk Regiment and 24th Royal Welsh Fusiliers ( of 231st Brigade ) left 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division . They were used to reconstitute 94th Brigade of 31st Division which was renamed 94th ( Yeomanry ) Brigade on that date . On 14 July 1918 the Yeomanry Division went into the line for the first time , near Merville on the right of XI Corps . From September 1918 , as part of III Corps of Fourth Army , it took part in the Hundred Days Offensive including the Second Battle of the Somme ( Second Battle of Bapaume ) and the Battles of the Hindenburg Line ( Battle of Épehy ) . In October and November 1918 it took part in the Final Advance in Artois and Flanders . By the Armistice it was near Tournai , Belgium , still with 74th ( Yeomanry ) Division . With the end of the war , the troops of 74th Division were engaged in railway repair work and education was undertaken while demobilisation began . The division and its subformations were disbanded on 10 July 1919 . Commanders . The 3rd Dismounted Brigade / 230th Brigade had the following commanders during its existence : Colonel H . W . Hodgson ( promoted to Brigadier - General on 5 August 1914 ) was the commander of the Eastern Mounted Brigade from 1 April 1912 . He took command of 3rd Dismounted Brigade on formation .