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2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)

Field	Value
unit_name	2nd Cavalry Brigade
image	Denis Dighton (1792-1827) - The Battle of Waterloo, The Charge of the Second Brigade of Cavalry - RCIN 404825 - Royal Collection.jpg
caption	painting of the brigade at Waterloo by Denis Dighton
dates	1815
1899–1902
1914–1919
country	UKGBI
image_size	300
branch
type	Cavalry
size	Brigade
command_structure	[1st Cavalry Division](1st-cavalry-division-united-kingdom) (World War I)
battles	Napoleonic Wars
notable_commanders	Sir William Ponsonby
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
Cecil Edward Bingham
Beauvoir De Lisle

1899–1902 1914–1919 :Battle of Waterloo Second Boer War :Battle of Paardeberg World War I :Western Front John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Cecil Edward Bingham Beauvoir De Lisle The 2nd Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (2nd Union 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 Tidworth Camp 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.

History

Napoleonic Wars

From June 1809, Wellington organized his cavalry into one, later two, cavalry divisions (1st and 2nd) for the Peninsular War. These performed a purely administrative, rather than tactical, role; the normal tactical headquarters were provided by brigades commanding two, later usually three, regiments. The cavalry brigades were named for the commanding officer, rather than numbered. For the Hundred Days Campaign, he numbered his British cavalry brigades in a single sequence, 1st to 7th. The 2nd Cavalry Brigade consisted of:

1st (Royal) Regiment of Dragoons
2nd Regiment of Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons As the brigade consisted of regiments from England (1st Dragoons), Scotland (2nd Dragoons) and Ireland (6th Dragoons), it was known as the 2nd (Union) Cavalry Brigade.

Boer War

The brigade was reformed for the Boer War. During the Battle of Paardeberg, the brigade commanded:

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiners)
2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
New Zealanders
Australians
G and P Batteries, Royal Horse Artillery

World War I

A patrol of the 18th Hussars attempting to obtain information from the local population, 21 August 1914.

4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards
9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers
18th (Queen Mary’s Own) Hussars
2nd Signal Troop, Royal Engineers
H Battery, Royal Horse Artillery from 28 September 1914
2nd Cavalry Brigade Machine Gun Squadron Machine Gun Corps

Commanders

The commanders of the 2nd Cavalry Brigade during the First World War were:

Brigadier-General H. de B. de Lisle (At mobilization)
Brigadier-General R. L. Mullens (12 October 1914)
Brigadier-General D. J. E. Beale-Browne (26 October 1915)
Brigadier-General A. Lawson (16 April 1918)

Notes

References

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References

"1st Cavalry Division". The Long Long Trail.
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"The Anglo-Allied Army at napoleonic-literature.com".
"Wellington's Army in 1815".
"Battle of Paardenburg". British Battles.com.
{{harvnb. Clarke. 1993

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