2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
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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.
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2nd Cavalry Brigade | |
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Active | 1815 1899–1902 1914–1919 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Branch | British Army |
Type | Cavalry |
Size | Brigade |
Part of | 1st Cavalry Division (World War I) |
Engagements | Napoleonic Wars |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Sir William Ponsonby John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Cecil Edward Bingham Beauvoir De Lisle |
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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]