1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)

June 2014 December 2018 1st Cavalry Brigade 18151899–19021914–1919 UKGBI United Kingdom 23px Cavalry Brigade 1st Cavalry Division (World War I) Napoleonic Wars Battle of Waterloo Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) Second Boer War Battle of Paardeberg World War I Western Front Lord Edward SomersetBaker RussellJohn French, 1st Earl of YpresJulian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of VimyHew Dalrymple FanshaweCharles James BriggsHorace Sewell30 August 2012 1st Queens Dragoon Guards http://www.qdg.org.uk/pages/WW-One-Part-1-118.php World War One — Part 1 https://web.archive.org/web/20120717085800/http://www.qdg.org.uk/pages/WW-One-Part-1-118.php 17 July 2012 dead 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. Prior to World War I the brigade was based at Aldershot in England and originally consisted of three cavalry regiments, and a Royal Engineers 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 1916.30 August 2012 The Long Long Trail 1st Cavalry Division http://www.1914-1918.net/1cavdiv.htm One of the brigade's early battles was the action at Néry on 1 September 1914 when, acting alone, the brigade defeated the German 4th Cavalry Division. As a result of this action three men from the artillery battery – Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant-Major George Dorrell and Sergeant David Nelson – were awarded the Victoria Cross. History Napoleonic Wars thumb|Life Guards (left) and Horse Guards (right) charging. From June 1809, Wellington organized his cavalry into one, later two, cavalry divisions (1st and 2nd) for the Peninsular War.Reid 2004 79 These performed a purely administrative, rather than tactical, role;Haythornthwaite 1990 103 the normal tactical headquarters were provided by brigades commanding two, later usually three, regiments.Reid 2004 75 The cavalry brigades were named for the commanding officer, rather than numbered.This could be a source of confusion as brigades acquired new commanders, or they moved between brigades. For example, Fane's Brigade became De Grey's Brigade from 13 May 1810 when Henry Fane went to Estremadura;Reid 2004 80 De Grey's Brigade was broken up 29 January 1812.Reid 2004 83 On 20 May 1813, Fane took over Slade's Brigade;Reid 2004 85 the second Fane's Brigade was unrelated to the original one although coincidentally, and to add to the potential confusion, the 3rd Dragoon Guards served in both.Reid 2004 79–86 For the Hundred Days Campaign, he numbered his British cavalry brigades in a single sequence, 1st to 7th.The British cavalry included five regiments of the King's German Legion.http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/Waterloo_OB/Allied.htm The Anglo-Allied Army at napoleonic-literature.com 21 March 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120717034259/http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/Waterloo_OB/Allied.htm 17 July 2012 http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/British_Order_of_Battle_WATERLOO.html Wellington's Army in 1815 25 August 2014 The 1st Cavalry Brigade consisted of: 1st Life Guards 2nd Life Guards Royal Horse Guards 1st King's Dragoon Guards31 August 2012 napolun.com Wellington's Army in 1815 http://www.napolun.com/mirror/napoleonistyka.atspace.com/British_Order_of_Battle_WATERLOO.html#britishcavalrycorps As the majority of the brigade consisted of Household Cavalry regiments, it was known as the 1st (Household) Cavalry Brigade . 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 Second Boer War The brigade was reformed for the Second Boer War. During the Battle of Paardeberg, the brigade commanded:30 August 2012 Battle of Paardenburg British Battles.com http://www.britishbattles.com/great-boer-war/paardenburg.htm Household Cavalry Composite Regiment 10th Royal Hussars 12th Royal Lancers Q, T and U Batteries, Royal Horse ArtilleryClarke 1993 55 Following the end of the Second Boer War in 1902 the army was restructured, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade was established at Aldershot (South Cavalry Barracks) attached to the 1st Army Corps.Naval & Military intelligence - The 1st Army Corps 7 October 1902 8 36892 Brigadier-General Henry Scobell was appointed in command from 1 April 1903.Important Military Appointments 17 January 1903 11 36980 First World War thumb|Men of the machine gun section of the 11th Hussars in the trenches at Zillebeke during the winter of 1914–1915. 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 Commanders The commanders of the 1st Cavalry Brigade during the First World War were:Becke 1998 2 Brigadier-General C. J. Briggs (At mobilization) Lieutenant-Colonel T. T. Pitman (7 May 1915 - acting) Brigadier-General E. Makins (15 May 1915) Brigadier-General H. S. Sewell (16 April 1918) See also United Kingdom France 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 Notes References Bibliography Becke Major A.F. 1st Pub. 1935 1998 Order of Battle of Divisions Part 1. The Regular British Divisions His Majesty's Stationery Office London 1-871167-09-4 Clarke W.G. 1993 Horse Gunners: The Royal Horse Artillery, 200 Years of Panache and Professionalism The Royal Artillery Institution Woolwich 09520762-0-9 Haythornthwaite Philip J. 1990 The Napoleonic Source Book Guild Publishing London Reid Stuart 2004 Wellington's Army in the Peninsula 1809–14 Volume 2 of Battle Orders Series Osprey Publishing Oxford 1-84176-517-1 Smith Digby 1998 The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book Greenhill Books London 1-85367-276-9 none External links http://www.1914-1918.net/1cavdiv.htm The 1st Cavalry Division in 1914-1918 The Long, Long Trail Baker Chris 24 June 2015 http://www.warpath.orbat.com/cav/1_cav_div.htm 1st Cavalry Division on The Regimental Warpath 1914 - 1918 by PB Chappell 2 August 2013 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080108093653/http://www.warpath.orbat.com/cav/1_cav_div.htm 8 January 2008 Category:Cavalry brigades of the British Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1815 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1815 Category:Military units and formations established in 1899 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1902 Category:Military units and formations established in 1914 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1919