British Cavalry Corps order of battle 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 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 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) 3rd Field Squadron Royal Engineers 3rd Signal Squadron Royal Engineers 3rd Cavalry Division Supply Column 6th Cavalry Field Ambulance 7th Cavalry Field Ambulance