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Cavalry Corps (United Kingdom)
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. It served as part of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front throughout its existence. Formation The Corps consisted of the three cavalry divisions serving in France, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd divisions. The cavalry division consisted of cavalry regiments in brigades. They were armed with rifles, unlike their French and German counterparts, who were only armed with the shorter range carbine. The cavalry division also had a high allocation of artillery compared to foreign cavalry divisions, with 24 13-pounder guns organised into two brigades and two machine guns for each regiment. However, when dismounted, the cavalry division was the equivalent of two weakened infantry brigades with less artillery than the infantry divi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crown
The Crown is a political concept used in Commonwealth realms. Depending on the context used, it generally refers to the entirety of the State (polity), state (or in federal realms, the relevant level of government in that state), the executive government specifically or only to the monarch and their Viceroy, direct representatives. The term can be used to refer to the rule of law; or to the functions of executive (government), executive (the Crown-King-in-Council, in-council), legislative (the Crown-in-parliament), and judicial (the Crown on the bench) governance and the civil service. The concept of the Crown as a corporation sole developed first in the Kingdom of England as a separation of the physical crown and property of the kingdom from the person and personal property of the monarch. It spread through English and later British colonisation and developed into an imperial crown, which rooted it in the legal lexicon of all 15 Commonwealth realms, their various dependencies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Arras (1914)
The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras, was an attempt by the French Army to outflank the German Army, which was attempting to do the same thing during the "Race to the Sea", their reciprocal attempts to exploit conditions created during the First Battle of the Aisne. At the First Battle of Picardy each side had attacked expecting to advance round an open northern flank and found instead that troops had arrived from further south and extended the flank northwards. The Tenth Army (General Louis Maud'huy) attacked advancing German forces on 1 October and reached Douai, where the 6th Army (Crown Prince Rupprecht) counter-attacked, as three corps of the German 1st, 2nd and 7th armies attacked further south. The French were forced to withdraw towards Arras and Lens was occupied by the Germans on 4 October. Attempts to encircle Arras from the north were defeated and both sides used reinforcements to try another flanking move further north at the Battle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Military Units And Formations Established In 1914
A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. Militaries are typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with their members identifiable by a distinct military uniform. They may consist of one or more military branches such as an army, navy, air force, space force, marines, or coast guard. The main task of a military is usually defined as defence of their state and its interests against external armed threats. In broad usage, the terms "armed forces" and "military" are often synonymous, although in technical usage a distinction is sometimes made in which a country's armed forces may include other paramilitary forces such as armed police. Beyond warfare, the military may be employed in additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within the state, including internal security threats, crowd control, promotion of political agendas, emergency services and reconstruction, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Cavalry During The First World War
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 shortly after 06:30 on 22 August 1914, near the Belgian village of Casteau. The following Battle of Mons was the first engagement fought by British soldiers in Western Europe since the Battle of Waterloo, ninety-nine years earlier. In the first year of the war in France, nine cavalry brigades were formed for three British cavalry divisions. Other regiments served in six brigades of the two British Indian Army cavalry divisions that were formed for service on the Western Front. Three regiments also fought in the campaign in Mesopotamia, the only other theatre of the First World War where British cavalry served. The doctrine of the British ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Cavalry Corps Order Of Battle 1914
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 Batte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Army During World War I
The British Army during the First World War fought the largest and most costly war in its History of the British Army, long history. Unlike the French Army in World War I, French and German Army (German Empire), German Armies, the British Army was made up exclusively of volunteers, as opposed to conscription, conscripts, at the beginning of the conflict. Furthermore, the British Army was considerably smaller than its French and German counterparts. During World War I, the First World War, there were four distinct British armies. The first comprised approximately 247,000 soldiers of the Standing army, regular army, over half of whom were posted overseas to garrison the British Empire, supported by some 210,000 reserves and a potential 60,000 additional reserves. This component formed the backbone of the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force (BEF), which was formed for service in France and became known as the Old Contemptibles. The second army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kavanagh
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Toler MacMorrough Kavanagh, (25 March 1864 – 11 October 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the Cavalry Corps during the First World War, most notably at the Battle of Amiens in 1918. Early life and military career Kavanagh was born in March 1864 in Borris, County Carlow, the son of Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh, The MacMorrough and Mary Frances Forde-Leathley. He received his education at Harrow School before going on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst in 1882, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 3rd Dragoon Guards of the British Army in February 1884, although he transferred to the 10th Hussars just two weeks later. In March 1889 he was seconded from his regiment and sent to Jamaica where he served for a time as aide-de-camp to the governor of Jamaica, Henry Arthur Blake. In 1890 he returned to the 10th Hussars to assume command of a troop and was promoted to captain in April 1891. In Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Edward Bingham
Major-General Sir Cecil Edward Bingham (7 December 1861 – 31 May 1934) was a British Army officer who held high command during World War I. Military career Born the son of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan,''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage''. Bingham was commissioned as a lieutenant into the 3rd The King's Own Hussars in September 1882 and transferred to the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards in 1886 and the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1892. He served in the Second Boer War in 1900 as aide-de-camp to Major-General John French, commanding the Cavalry division. After returning home, he became senior aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Connaught during his Indian Tour in 1903. Promoted to brevet colonel in November 1906, and lieutenant colonel a month later, he was, after being appointed as a CVO in June 1909, promoted to temporary brigadier general and appointed to the command of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in succession to Brigadier General Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe in November 1910 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe
Lieutenant General Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, (30 October 1860 – 24 March 1957) was a British Army general of the First World War, who commanded V Corps on the Western Front and the 18th Indian Division in the Mesopotamian campaign. He was one of three brothers (Edward, Hew, and Robert) who all rose to command divisions or corps during the war. Fanshawe joined the 19th Hussars in 1882, and after seeing active duty in North Africa became the aide-de-camp to Sir Evelyn Wood, a prominent senior officer; he later married Wood's eldest daughter. He served with his regiment during the Second Boer War, and then commanded a cavalry regiment, followed by brigades in the Home Forces and in India. Following the outbreak of the First World War, Fanshawe commanded a cavalry division and then the Cavalry Corps in France, before assuming command of V Corps in late 1915. He was removed from command in mid-1916, however, as a result of political manoeuvring following the attempt to find a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng Of Vimy
Field marshal (United Kingdom), Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, (11 September 1862 – 6 June 1935), was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the List of governors general of Canada#Governors general of Canada, 1867–present, 12th since the Canadian Confederation. Known to friends as "Bungo", Byng was born to a Nobility, noble family at Wrotham Park in Hertfordshire, England and educated at Eton College, along with his brothers. Upon graduation, he received a commission as a militia officer and saw service in Egypt and Sudan before enrolling in the Staff College, Camberley, Staff College at Camberley. There, he befriended individuals who would be his contemporaries when he attained senior rank in France. Following distinguished service during the First World War—specifically, with the British Expeditionary Force (World War I), British Expeditionary Force in France, in the Battle of Gallipoli, as commander of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major General (United Kingdom)
Major general (Maj Gen) is a "two-star" rank in the British Army and Royal Marines. The rank was also briefly used by the Royal Air Force for a year and a half, from its creation in April 1918 until August 1919. In the British Army, a major general is the customary rank for the appointment of division commander. In the Royal Marines, the Commandant General holds at least the rank of major general. A major general is senior to a brigadier but subordinate to a lieutenant general. The rank is OF-7 on the NATO rank scale, equivalent to a rear admiral in the Royal Navy or an air vice-marshal in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries. Insignia and nomenclature The rank insignia is the star (or 'pip') of the Order of the Bath, over a crossed sword and baton. In terms of orthography, compound ranks were invariably hyphenated prior to about 1980. Nowadays the rank is almost equally invariably non-hyphenated. When written as a title, especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, (23 April 1861 – 14 May 1936) was a senior British Army officer and imperial governor. He fought in the Second Boer War and also in World War I, in which he led the British Empire's Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign against the Ottoman Empire in the conquest of Palestine. The British succeeded in capturing Beersheba, Jaffa, and Jerusalem from October to December 1917. His forces occupied the Jordan Valley during the summer of 1918, then went on to capture northern Palestine and defeat the Ottoman Yildirim Army Group's Eighth Army at the Battle of Megiddo, forcing the Fourth and Seventh Army to retreat towards Damascus. Subsequently, the EEF Pursuit by Desert Mounted Corps captured Damascus and advanced into northern Syria. During this pursuit, he commanded T. E. Lawrence (''"Lawrence of Arabia"''), whose campaign with Faisal's Arab Sherifial Forces assiste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
