1st (Peshawar) Division

The 1st (Peshawar) Division was a Regular Division of the British Indian Army it was formed after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army in 1903. During World War I it remained in India for local defence but it was mobilised for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions during the period.

The Division was in the Northern Army, later called Northern Command. In 1919, the Division was mobilised for operations in Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War. Typical of all Indian Army formations, it contained a mixture of British units and Indian ones and unlike British Divisions it contained a mixture of cavalry and infantry components.

1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade

 * 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers
 * 14th Murrays Jat Lancers
 * 1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse
 * Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) Lumsden's) Cavalry
 * 21st Lancers
 * M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
 * 1st Guides Infantry.

1st (Peshawar) Infantry Brigade

 * 2nd Bn, King's (Liverpool Regiment)
 * 1st Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment
 * 14th Sikhs
 * 21st Punjabis
 * 72nd Punjabis.

2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade

 * 1st Bn, Durham Light Infantry
 * 24th Punjabis
 * 46th Punjabis
 * 82nd Punjabis
 * 112th Infantry

Peshawar Brigade
Formed July 1918


 * 1st Bn, Yorkshire Regiment
 * 30th Lancers.

Divisional Troops

 * 2/1st Guides Rifles
 * 38th Dogras
 * 51st Sikhs.