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The British cavalry were the first British Army units to see action during the First World War. Captain Hornby of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards is reputed to have been the first British soldier to kill a German soldier, using his sword, and Corporal Edward Thomas of the same regiment is reputed to have fired the first British shot ...
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
Pages in category "Cavalry regiments of the British Army in World War I" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
British capture Fricourt during the Second Battle of Albert. July 2 Middle Eastern: Ottoman counter-attack into Persia reaches Kermanshah. July 2–25 Caucasian: Battle of Erzincan. July 3–7 Western: British capture La Boisselle during the Second Battle of Albert. July 3–12 Western
The Cavalry Corps was a cavalry corps of the British Army in the First World War. The corps was formed in France in October 1914, under General Sir Edmund Allenby . It was later broken up in March 1916, but re-established in the following September. [ 1 ]
The cavalry brigades were named for the commanding officer, rather than numbered. [a] For the Hundred Days Campaign, he numbered his British cavalry brigades in a single sequence, 1st to 7th. [b] The 1st Cavalry Brigade consisted of: 1st Life Guards; 2nd Life Guards; Royal Horse Guards; 1st King's Dragoon Guards [12]
10 July 2009 – Five men from 9 Plt, C Coy, 2 RIFLES died and ten were wounded, over half of the entire patrol, in what was the worst casualty toll for a British foot patrol during the war in Afghanistan. [22] Summer 2012 – British forces support the police and provide specialist capability during the London 2012 Olympics.
In 1914, the British had a small, largely urban English, volunteer force [74] of 400,000 soldiers, almost half of whom were posted overseas to garrison the immense British Empire. (In August 1914, 74 of the 157 infantry battalions and 12 of the 31 cavalry regiments were posted overseas.