About: 1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/34Hx5JIsx7rT21ciEtOUkg==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The 1st Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (1st Household Cavalry Brigade), the Anglo-Egyptian War (1st (Heavy) Cavalry Brigade), the Boer War and in the First World War when it was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. One of the brigades first battles was the Action at Néry (1 September 1914), when acting alone the brigade defeated the German 4th Cavalry Division. During this action three men from the artillery battery Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant-Major George Dorrell, and Sergeant David Nelson, were all awarded the Victoria Cross.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • 1st Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)
rdfs:comment
  • The 1st Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (1st Household Cavalry Brigade), the Anglo-Egyptian War (1st (Heavy) Cavalry Brigade), the Boer War and in the First World War when it was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. One of the brigades first battles was the Action at Néry (1 September 1914), when acting alone the brigade defeated the German 4th Cavalry Division. During this action three men from the artillery battery Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant-Major George Dorrell, and Sergeant David Nelson, were all awarded the Victoria Cross.
sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
command structure
  • 1(xsd:integer)
Type
Dates
  • 1809(xsd:integer)
  • 1914(xsd:integer)
Unit Name
  • 1(xsd:integer)
notable commanders
Allegiance
  • British Crown
Battles
Size
abstract
  • The 1st Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (1st Household Cavalry Brigade), the Anglo-Egyptian War (1st (Heavy) 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 Aldershot 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. One of the brigades first battles was the Action at Néry (1 September 1914), when acting alone the brigade defeated the German 4th Cavalry Division. During this action three men from the artillery battery Captain Edward Bradbury, Sergeant-Major George Dorrell, and Sergeant David Nelson, were all awarded the Victoria Cross.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software