title: British Cavalry Corps order of battle 1914
text: # 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
  
  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
         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
      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
         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
      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)
         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
  