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

 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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