| 1st Cavalry Brigade | |
|---|---|
| Active |
1809–1815 1914–1919 |
| Country |
 United Kingdom |
| Allegiance | British Crown |
| Branch |
 British Army |
| Type | Cavalry |
| Size | Brigade |
| Part of | 1st Cavalry Division (World War I) |
| Engagements | |
| Commanders | |
| Notable commanders |
Lord Edward Somerset Baker Russell John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Charles James Briggs Horace Sewell[1] |
The 1st Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (1st Household Cavalry Brigade), the Anglo-Egyptian War (1st (Heavy) Cavalry Brigade), the Boer War and in the First World War when it was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division.
The brigade was a pre-war formation based at Aldershot in England and originally consisted of three cavalry regiments, and an Royal Engineer signal troop. After the declaration of war in August 1914, the brigade was deployed to the Western Front in France, where an artillery battery joined the brigade the following September and a Machine Gun Squadron in February 1916.[2]
One of the brigades first battles was the Action at Néry (1 September 1914), when acting alone the brigade defeated the German 4th Cavalry Division. During this action three men from the artillery battery Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant-Major George Dorrell, and Sergeant David Nelson, were all awarded the Victoria Cross.
Formation[]
Napoleonic Wars[]
Battle of Talavera 1809
Battle of Furentes de Onoro 1811
Battle of Albuera 1811
- 3rd Dragoon Guards
- 4th Dragoons
- 13th Light Dragoons[5]
Battle of Salamanca 1812
- 5th Dragoon Guards
- 3rd Dragoons
- 4th Dragoons[3]
Battle of Vitoria 1813
- 14th Light Dragoons
- 1st Hussars, King’s German Legion[6]
Battle of Waterloo 1815
Anglo-Egyptian War[]
- Household Cavalry Composite Regiment (1 Squadron each from the 1st Life Guards, 2nd Life Guards and Royal Horse Guards)
- 4th Dragoon Guards
- 7th Dragoon Guards
Boer War[]
During the Battle of Paardeberg, the brigade commanded:[8]
- Household Cavalry Regiment
- 10th Royal Hussars
- 12th Royal Lancers
- Q, T and U Batteries, Royal Horse Artillery[9]
First World War[]
- 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays)
- 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards
- 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars
- 1st Signal Troop Royal Engineers
- I Battery, Royal Horse Artillery from 17 September 1914
- 1st Cavalry Brigade Machine Gun Squadron Machine Gun Corps[2]
See also[]
- Order of battle of the Waterloo Campaign
- British Army during World War I
- British Cavalry Corps order of battle 1914
- British cavalry during the First World War
References[]
- ↑ "World War One — Part 1". 1st Queens Dragoon Guards. http://www.qdg.org.uk/pages/WW-One-Part-1-118.php. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "1st Cavalry Division". The Long Long Trail. http://www.1914-1918.net/1cavdiv.htm. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "British Cavalry of the Napoleonic Wars". napolun.com. http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/British_cavalry.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "The Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro". British Battles. http://www.britishbattles.com/peninsula/fuentes.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "Battle of Albuera". British Battles. http://www.britishbattles.com/peninsula/Albuera.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "Battle of Vitoria". British Battles. http://www.britishbattles.com/peninsula/peninsula-vitoria.htm. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "Wellington's Army in 1815". napolun.com. http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/British_Order_of_Battle_WATERLOO.html#britishcavalrycorps. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ↑ "Battle of Paardenburg". British Battles.com. http://www.britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/paardenburg.htm. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
- ↑ Clarke 1993, p. 55
Bibliography[]
- Becke, Major A.F. (1935). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions. London: His Majesty's Stationary Office. ISBN 1-871167-09-4.
- Clarke, W.G. (1993). Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism. Woolwich: The Royal Artillery Institution. ISBN 09520762-0-9.
- Smith, Digby (1998). The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill Books. ISBN 1-85367-276-9.
External links[]
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