Order of the British forces during the First Battle of Mons
1st DIVISION (Major-General S. LOMAX) 1st BRIGADE: • 1st Coldstream Guards • 1st Scots Guards • 1st Royal Highlanders • 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers 2nd BRIGADE: • 2nd Royal Sussex • 1st Loyal North Lancashire • 1st Northamptonshire • 2nd King’s Royal Rifle Corps 3rd BRIGADE: • 1st Queen’s Royal West Surrey • 1st South Wales Borderers • 1st Gloucestershire • 2nd Welsch. MOUNTED TROOPS: C Squadron of the 15th Hussars – 1st Cyclist Company ARTILLERY: • field guns: Groups 25 (Nos 113, 114, 115);26 (Nos 116, 117, 118);39 (Nos 46.51.54). • howitzers: Group 43 (Nos 30.40.57) • heavy: 26th Battery RGA |
3rd DIVISION (Major-General H. HAMILTO N) 7th BRIGADE: • 3rd Worcestershire • 2nd South Lancashire • 1st Wiltshire • 2nd Royal Irish Rifles 8th BRIGADE: • 2nd Royal Scots • 2nd Royal Irish • 4th Middlesex • 1st Gordon Highlanders. 9th BRIGADE: • 1st Northumberland Fusiliers • 4th Royal Fusiliers • 1st Lincolnshire • 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers. MOUNTED TROOPS: A Squadron of the 15th Hussars – 3rd Cyclist Company ARTILLERY: • field guns: Groups 23 (Nos 107.108.109); 40 (nos 6.23.49) & 42 (Nos 29.41.45). • howitzers: Groups 30 (Nos 128.129.130). • heavy: 48th Battery Supporting arms for 3rd Division ROYAL ENGINEERS: 56th & 57th Field Companies – 3rd Signal Company ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS: 7th, 8th & 9th Field Ambulance |
CAVALRY DIVISION (Edmund ALLENBY) 1st BRIGADE: • 2nd Dragoon Guards • 5th Dragoon Guards • 1th Hussars 2nd BRIGADE: • 4th Dragoon Guards • 9th Lanciers • 18th Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own) 3rd BRIGADE: • 4th Hussars • 5th Lancers • 16th Lancers 4th BRIGADE: • Household Cavalry • 6th Dragoon Guards • 3rd Hussars 5th BRIGADE: • 12th Lancers • 20th Hussars • 2nd Dragoons (Scots Grey) HORSE ARTILLERY: Batteries D.E.J.I.L. ROYAL ENGINEERS: 1st Field Squadron. ROYAL FLYING CORPS: (Brigadier Sir David HENDERSON) SQUADRONS Nos 2.3.4 & 5. |
Supporting arms for 1st Division ROYAL ENGINEERS: 23rd & 26th Field Company – 1st Signal Company R.A.M.C.: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Field Ambulances 2nd DIVISION (Major-General C. MONRO) 4th BRIGADE: • 2nd Grenadier Guards • 2nd Coldstream Guards • 3rd Coldstream Guards • 1st Irish Guards 5th BRIGADE: • 2nd Worcester • 2nd Oxford & Buckingham Light Infantry • 2nd Highland Light Infantry • 2nd Connaught Rangers 6th BRIGADE: • 1st Liverpool (The King’s Regiment) • 2nd South Staffordshire • 1st Royal Berkshire • 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps MOUNTED TROOPS: B Squadron of the 15th Hussars – 2nd Cyclist Company ARTILLERY: • field guns: Groups 34 (Nos 25.50.70); • 36 (Nos 15.48.71) & 41 (Nos 5.16.17) • howitzers: Group 44 (Nos 47.56.60) • heavy: 35th Battery Supporting arms for 2nd Division ROYAL ENGINEERS: 5th & 11th Field Company 2nd Signal Company ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS: 4th, 5th & 6th Field Ambulance |
5th DIVISION (Major-General SIR C. FERGUSSON) 13th BRIGADE: • 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers • 2nd Duke of Wellington’s West Riding • 1st Royal West Kent • 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 14th BRIGADE: • 2nd Suffolk • 1st East Surrey • 1st Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry • 2nd Manchester. 15th BRIGADE: • 1st Norfolk • 1st Bedfordshire • 1st Cheshire • 1st Dorsetshire. MOUNTED TROOPS: A squadron of the 19th Hussars – 5th Cyclist Company ARTILLERY: • field guns: Brigade 15 (Nos 11. 52.80); 27 (Nos 119.120.121) & 28 (nos 122.123.124) • howitzers: Group 8 (Nos 37.61&65) • heavy: 108th Battery Supporting arms for 5th DIVISION ROYAL ENGINEERS: 17th & 59th Field Comapny - 5th Signal Company ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS: 13th, 14th & 15th Field Ambulance 19th BRIGADE • (Brigadier L.G. DRUMMOND) • 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers • 1st Scottish Rifles • 1st Middlesex • 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders + 19th Field Ambulance |