8th (Lucknow) Cavalry Brigade

Lucknow Cavalry Brigade
8th (Lucknow) Cavalry Brigade
4th Indian Cavalry Brigade
ActiveOctober 1911 – March 1918
April 1920 – 1923
Country British India
AllegianceBritish Crown
Branch British Indian Army
TypeCavalry
SizeBrigade
Part of8th (Lucknow) Division
1st Indian Cavalry Division
Peacetime HQLucknow
EngagementsFirst World War
Western Front
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Br.-Gen. G.A.H. Beatty

The Lucknow Cavalry Brigade was a cavalry brigade of the British Indian Army formed in 1911 as a result of the Kitchener Reforms. It was mobilized as 8th (Lucknow) Cavalry Brigade at the outbreak of the First World War as part of the 1st Indian Cavalry Division and departed for France. It served on the Western Front with the division until it was broken up in March 1918.

The brigade was reformed in April 1920 and broken up in 1923.