title: 1st (Peshawar) Division
text: # 1st (Peshawar) Division
  
  The 1st (Peshawar) Division was a Regular Division of the British Indian Army formed as a result of the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army in 1903. During World War I, the Division remained in India for local defense, but was mobilized for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions.
  
  The Division was a part of the Northern Army, later called the Northern Command. In 1919, the Division was mobilized for operations in Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War. Typical of most Indian Army formations, it contained a mixture of British and Indian units; but, unlike British Divisions, it contained a mixture of cavalry and infantry components.
  
  ## Formation in 1914
  
  ### 1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade
  
      13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers
      14th Murray's 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.
  