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
See also Indian Cavalry Corps order of battle First World War
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