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  2. 1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    On 31 October 1939, during the Second World War, the 1st Cavalry Division was reformed. It was assigned to Northern Command, and took command of two pre-war First Line Territorial Army cavalry brigades (the 5th and 6th) and the newly formed 4th Cavalry Brigade. [14] It was the only cavalry division in the British Army during the war.

  3. British cavalry during the First World War - Wikipedia

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    Although mechanisation of the British cavalry was well advanced by 1939, there was still a 1st Cavalry Division that served in the Syria–Lebanon Campaign during the Second World War. [115] Eventually all the cavalry regiments were mechanised and became part of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Armoured Corps . [ 116 ]

  4. 1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of British divisions in the First World War - Wikipedia

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    1st Cavalry Division: 2nd Cavalry Division: 3rd Cavalry Division: 1st Mounted Division - renamed 1st Cyclist Division in July 1916 then broken up in November 1916: 2nd Mounted Division - broken up in January 1916: 2/2nd Mounted Division - renamed 3rd Mounted Division in March 1916, 1st Mounted Division in July 1916, then The Cyclist Division in ...

  6. List of commanders of the British 1st Division - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Division is a division of the British Army; the division was first formed in 1809.The head of the division is a general officer commanding (GOC), who receives orders from a level above him in the chain of command, and then uses the forces within the division to undertake the mission assigned.

  7. British Expeditionary Force order of battle (1914) - Wikipedia

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    The Cavalry Division was commanded by Major-General Edmund Allenby, with Colonel John Vaughan as GSO 1 and Brigadier-General B. F. Drake commanding the Royal Horse Artillery. 1st Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General C. J. Briggs) 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards; 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars

  8. History of the British 1st Division during the world wars

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    The 1st Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was formed and disestablished numerous times between 1809 and the present. It was raised by Lieutenant-General Arthur Wellesley for service in the Peninsular War (part of the Coalition Wars of the Napoleonic Wars).

  9. Category : Cavalry divisions of the British Army in World War I

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    1st Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 1st Mounted Division; 2nd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 2nd Mounted Division; 3rd Cavalry Division (United Kingdom) 3rd Mounted Division; 4th Mounted Division