2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)

2nd Cavalry Brigade
The 2nd Cavalry Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo
Active1815
1899–1902
1914–1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeCavalry
SizeBrigade
Part of1st Cavalry Division (World War I)
EngagementsNapoleonic Wars
Battle of Waterloo

Second Boer War

Battle of Paardeberg

World War I

Western Front
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Sir William Ponsonby
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.[1]

  1. ^ "1st Cavalry Division". The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 30 August 2012.