PropertyValue
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • 2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
rdfs:comment
  • 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. The brigade was a pre-war formation based at Tidworth in England and originally consisted of three cavalry regiments, and an Royal Engineer 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.
owl:sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate
command structure
  • 1
Type
Dates
  • 1809
  • 1914
Unit Name
  • 2
notable commanders
Allegiance
  • British Crown
Battles
Size
abstract
  • 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. The brigade was a pre-war formation based at Tidworth in England and originally consisted of three cavalry regiments, and an Royal Engineer 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.