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 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
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
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
Major-General Hubert Gough
GSO 1 Lieutenant-Colonel W H Greenly
Brigadier-General John Vaughan
4th (Queen's Own) Hussars
5th (Royal Irish) Lancers
16th (The Queen's) Lancers
3rd Signal Troop
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
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
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
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
Brigadier-General Charles Kavanagh
1st Life Guards
2nd Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards to 20 November
1/1st Leicestershire Yeomanry from 12 November
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
See also
References
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