First Battle of Ypres order of battle

This is the order of battle for the First Battle of Ypres fought from 19 October to 22 November 1914 as one of the main engagements of the First World War. It was fought between mixed British Expeditionary Force, French eighth army and armies of the German Empire in northern France and Flanders.

I Corps (Douglas Haig)
1st Division (Samuel Lomax)


 * 1st (Guards) Brigade
 * 1st Coldstream Guards
 * 1st Scots Guards
 * 1st Black Watch
 * 1st Queens Own Cameron Highlanders
 * London Scottish Regiment


 * 2nd Brigade
 * 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment
 * 1st Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
 * 1st Northamptonshire Regiment
 * 2nd Kings Royal Rifle Corps


 * 3rd Brigade
 * 1st Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
 * 1st South Wales Borderers
 * 1st Gloucestershire Regiment
 * 2nd Welsh Regiment


 * XXV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 113th Battery
 * 114th Battery
 * 115th Battery


 * XXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 116th Battery
 * 117th Battery
 * 118th Battery


 * XXXIX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 46th Battery
 * 51st Battery
 * 54th Battery


 * XLIII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 30th (H) Battery
 * 40th (H) Battery
 * 57th (H) Battery


 * 26th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "A" Squadron 15th Hussars
 * 1st Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 23rd Field company Royal Engineers
 * 26th Field company Royal Engineers

2nd Division (Charles Monro)


 * 4th (Guards) Brigade
 * 2nd Grenadier Guards
 * 2nd Coldstream Guards
 * 3rd Coldstream Guards
 * 1st Irish Guards
 * 1st Hertfordshire Regiment


 * 5th Brigade
 * 2nd Worcestershire Regiment
 * 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
 * 2nd Highland Light Infantry
 * 2nd Connaught Rangers


 * 6th Brigade
 * 1st King's Regiment (Liverpool)
 * 2nd South Staffordshire Regiment
 * 1st Royal Berkshire Regiment
 * 1st Kings Royal Rifle Corps


 * XXXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 22nd Battery
 * 50th Battery
 * 70th Battery


 * XXXVI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 15th Battery
 * 48th Battery
 * 71st Battery


 * XLI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 9th Battery
 * 16th Battery
 * 17th Battery


 * XLIV (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 47th (H) Battery
 * 56th (H) Battery
 * 60th (H) Battery


 * 35th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "B" Squadron 15th Hussars
 * 2nd Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 5th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 11th Field company Royal Engineers

II Corps (Horace Smith-Dorrien)
3rd Division (Aylmer Haldane)


 * 7th Infantry Brigade
 * 3rd Worcestershire
 * 2nd South Lancashire
 * 1st Wiltshire(Duke of Edinburgh’s)
 * 2nd Royal Irish Rifles


 * 8th Infantry Brigade
 * 2nd Royal Scots
 * 2nd Royal Irish
 * 4th Middlesex(Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
 * 1st Devonshire
 * 1st Honourable Artillery Company


 * 9th Infantry Brigade
 * 1st Northumberland Fusiliers
 * 4th Royal Fusiliers
 * 1st Lincolnshire
 * 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers


 * XXIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 107th Battery
 * 108th Battery
 * 109th Battery


 * XL Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 6th Battery
 * 23rd Battery
 * 49th Battery


 * XLII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 29th Battery
 * 41st Battery
 * 45th Battery


 * XXX (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 128th (H) Battery
 * 129th (H) Battery
 * 130th (H) Battery


 * 48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "C" Squadron 15th Hussars
 * 3rd Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 56th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 57th Field company Royal Engineers

5th Division (Charles Fergusson)


 * 13th Infantry Brigade
 * 2nd Kings Own Scottish Borderers
 * 2nd Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
 * 1st Royal West Kent
 * 2nd The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry


 * 14th Infantry Brigade
 * 2nd Suffolk
 * 1st East Surrey
 * 1st Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
 * 2nd Manchester


 * 15th Infantry Brigade
 * 1st Norfolk
 * 1st Bedfordshire
 * 1st Cheshire
 * 1st Dorsetshire


 * XV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 11th Battery
 * 52nd Battery
 * 80th Battery


 * XXVII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 119th Battery
 * 120th Battery
 * 121st Battery


 * XXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 122nd Battery
 * 123rd Battery
 * 124th Battery


 * VIII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 37th (H) Battery
 * 61st (H) Battery
 * 65th (H) Battery


 * 108th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "A" Squadron 19th Hussars
 * 5th Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 17th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 59th Field company Royal Engineers

III Corps (William Pulteney)
4th Division (Henry Wilson)


 * 10th Brigade
 * 1st Royal Warwickshire
 * 2nd Seaforth Highlanders
 * 1st Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
 * 2nd Royal Dublin Fusiliers


 * 11th Brigade
 * 1st Prince Albert (Somerset Light Infantry)
 * 1st East Lancashire
 * 1st Hampshire
 * 1st The Rifle Brigade


 * 12th Brigade
 * 1st The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster)
 * 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers
 * 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
 * 2nd Sussex


 * XIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 39th Battery
 * 68th Battery
 * 88th Battery


 * XXIX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 125th Battery
 * 126th Battery
 * 127th Battery


 * XXXII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 27th Battery
 * 134th Battery
 * 135th Battery


 * XXXVII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 31st (H) Battery
 * 35th (H) Battery
 * 55th (H) Battery


 * 31st Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "A" Squadron 19th Hussars
 * 4th Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 7th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 9th Field company Royal Engineers

6th Division (John Keir)


 * 16th Brigade
 * 1st Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
 * 1st Leicestershire
 * 1st King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
 * 2nd York and Lancaster


 * 17th Brigade
 * 1st Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
 * 1st Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)
 * 2nd Prince of Wales's Leinster (Royal Canadians)
 * 3rd Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)


 * 18th Brigade
 * 1st Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
 * 1st East Yorkshire
 * 2nd Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
 * 2nd Durham Light Infantry


 * 19th Brigade
 * 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
 * 2nd Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
 * 1st Middlesex
 * 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


 * II Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 21st Battery
 * 42nd Battery
 * 53rd Battery


 * XXIV Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 110th Battery
 * 111th Battery
 * 112th Battery


 * XXXVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 24th Battery
 * 34th Battery
 * 72nd Battery


 * XII (Howitzer) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
 * 43rd (H) Battery
 * 86th (H) Battery
 * 87th (H) Battery


 * 24th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Mounted Troops
 * "C" Squadron 19th Hussars
 * 6th Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 12th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 38th Field company Royal Engineers

Royal Flying Corps (David Henderson)

 * HQ Wireless Unit
 * 2nd Aeroplane Squadron
 * 3rd Aeroplane Squadron
 * 4th Aeroplane Squadron
 * 5th Aeroplane Squadron
 * 6th Aeroplane Squadron

Cavalry Corps (Edmund Allenby)
1st Cavalry Division (Beauvoir De Lisle)


 * 1st Cavalry Brigade
 * 2nd Dragoon Guards
 * 5th Dragoon Guards
 * 11th Hussars
 * 1st Signal Troop


 * 2nd Cavalry Brigade
 * 4th Dragoon Guards
 * 9th Lancers
 * 18th Hussars
 * 2nd Signal Troop


 * VII Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
 * H Battery, RHA
 * I Battery, RHA


 * Cavalry Divisional Troops
 * 1st Field Squadron Royal Engineers
 * 1st Signal Squadron
 * 1st Cavalry Division supply column
 * 1st and 3rd Cavalry Field Ambulances

2nd Cavalry Division (Hubert Gough)


 * 3rd Cavalry Brigade
 * 4th Hussars
 * 5th Lancers
 * 16th Lancers
 * 3rd Signal Troop


 * 4th Cavalry Brigade
 * 6th Dragoon Guards
 * 3rd Hussars
 * Household Cavalry Composite Regiment
 * 4th Signal Troop


 * 5th Cavalry Brigade
 * 2nd Dragoons
 * 12th Lancers
 * 20th Hussars
 * 5th Signal Troop


 * III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
 * D Battery, RHA
 * E Battery, RHA
 * J Battery, RHA


 * Cavalry Divisional Troops
 * 2nd Field Squadron Royal Engineers
 * 2nd Signal Squadron
 * 2nd Cavalry Division supply column
 * 2nd, 4th and 5th Cavalry Field Ambulances

IV Corps (Henry Rawlinson)
7th Division (Thompson Capper)


 * 20th Brigade
 * 1st Grenadier Guards
 * 2nd Scots Guards
 * 2nd Border
 * 2nd Gordon Highlanders


 * 21st Brigade
 * 2nd Bedfordshire
 * 2nd Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
 * 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers
 * 2nd Wiltshire (Duke of Edinburgh's)


 * 22nd Brigade
 * 2nd Queen's (Royal West Surrey)
 * 2nd Royal Warwickshire
 * 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers
 * 1st South Staffordshire


 * XIV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
 * C Battery, RHA
 * F Battery, RHA


 * XXII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
 * 104th Battery
 * 105th Battery
 * 106th Battery


 * XXXV Brigade Royal Field Artillery
 * 12th Battery
 * 25th Battery
 * 58th Battery


 * 24th Heavy Brigade Royal Garrison Artillery


 * 7th Divisional ammunition column


 * Mounted Troops
 * Northumberland Hussars
 * 7th Cyclist company


 * Engineers
 * 54th Field company Royal Engineers
 * 55th Field company Royal Engineers


 * Divisional Troops
 * 7th Signal company
 * 7th divisional train
 * 21st,22nd and 23rd Field Ambulances

3rd Cavalry Division (Julian Byng)


 * 6th Cavalry Brigade
 * 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
 * 1st Royal Dragoons
 * 10th Hussars


 * 7th Cavalry Brigade
 * 1st Life Guards
 * 2nd Life Guards
 * Royal Horse Guards


 * XV Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery (later renumbered IV Brigade, RHA)
 * G Battery, RHA
 * K Battery, RHA


 * Cavalry Divisional Troops
 * 3rd Field Squadron Royal Engineers
 * 3rd Signal Squadron
 * 33rd Cavalry Division supply column
 * 6th and 7th Cavalry Field Ambulances

Indian Corps (James Willcocks)
Lahore Division (H.B.B. Watkis)


 * Ferozepore Brigade
 * 1st Connaught Rangers
 * 9th Bhopal Infantry
 * 57th Wilde's Rifles
 * 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis


 * Jullundur Brigade
 * 1st Manchester
 * 15th Ludhiana Sikhs
 * 47th Sikhs
 * 59th Scinde Rifles

Meerut Division (C.A. Anderson)


 * Dehra Dun Brigade 
 * 1st Seaforth Highlanders
 * 6th Jat Light Infantry
 * 2/2 King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
 * 1/9 Gurkha Rifles


 * Garwhal Brigade
 * 2nd Leicestershire
 * 1/39 Garhwal Rifles
 * 2/39 Garhwal Rifles
 * 2/3 Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles


 * Bareilly Brigade
 * 2nd Black Watch
 * 41st Dogras
 * 58th Vaughan's Rifles
 * 2/8 Gurkha Rifles


 * IV Brigade Royal Field Artillery
 * 7th Battery
 * 14th Battery
 * 66th Battery


 * IX Brigade Royal Field Artillery
 * 19th Battery
 * 20th Battery
 * 28th Battery


 * XIII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
 * 2nd Battery
 * 8th Battery
 * 44th Battery


 * 110th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


 * Meerut Divisional ammunition column


 * Mounted Troops
 * 4th Cavalry(Lancers)


 * Engineers
 * 3rd company 1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners
 * 4th company 1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners


 * Divisional Troops
 * Meerut Signal company
 * 107th Pioneers
 * Meerut divisional train
 * 19th and 20th Field Ambulances
 * 128th, 129th and 130th (Indian) Field Ambulances

Units at Antwerp
Royal Naval Division (Archibald Paris)

IX Corps (Pierre Joseph Dubois)

 * 17th Division (Guignabaudet)
 * 18th Division (Lefevre)
 * 6th Cavalry Division (Requichot)
 * 7th Cavalry Division (Hely d'Oissel)

XVI Corps (Paul François Grossetti)

 * 31st Division (Vidal)
 * 32nd Division (Bouchez)
 * 39th Division (Danant)
 * 43rd Division (Lanquetot)

XXXII Corps (Georges Louis Humbert)

 * 38th Division (Jean-Marie Brulard)
 * 42nd Division (Denis Auguste Duchêne)
 * 89th Territorial Division (Boucher)
 * 4th Cavalry Division (Buyer)

XX Corps (Balfourier)

 * 11th Division (Ferry)
 * 26th Division (Hallouin)

II Cavalry Corps (Antoine de Mitry)

 * 87th Territorial Division (Roy)
 * 5th Cavalry Division (Allenou)
 * 9th Cavalry Division (de L'espee)

I Cavalry Corps (Louis Conneau)

 * 1st Cavalry Division (Olivier Mazel)
 * 3rd Cavalry Division (Lastours)
 * 10th Cavalry Division (Contades)

German Fourth Army (Albrecht of Württemberg)


Marine Division (Ludwig von Schröder)

III Reserve Corps (von Beseler)

 * Composite Cavalry Unit (3 squadrons each from 2nd Reserve Dragoon Regiment and 3rd Reserve Uhlan Regiment)

5th Reserve Division (Richard Voigt)


 * 6 batteries, 6th Reserve Field Artillery Regiment


 * 9th Reserve Infantry Brigade
 * 8th Reserve Infantry Regiment
 * 48th Reserve Infantry Regiment


 * 10th Reserve Infantry Brigade
 * 12th Reserve Infantry Regiment
 * 52nd Reserve Infantry Regiment

6th Reserve Division (Emil von Schickfuß und Neudorf)


 * 6 batteries, 6th Reserve Field Artillery Regiment


 * 11th Reserve Infantry Brigade
 * 20th Reserve Infantry Regiment
 * 24th Reserve Infantry Regiment


 * 12th Reserve Infantry Brigade
 * 26th Reserve Infantry Regiment
 * 35th Reserve Infantry Regiment

4th Ersatz Division (Albert von Werder)

XXII Reserve Corps (Eugen von Falkenhayn)
43rd Reserve Division (Karl Stenger)

44th Reserve Division (Eugen von Dorrer)

XXIII Reserve Corps (Georg von Kleist)
45th Reserve Division (Albert Schöpflin)

46th Reserve Division (Bruno Hahn)

XXVI Reserve Corps (Otto von Hügel)
51st Reserve Division (Ferdinand Waenker von Dankenschweil)

52nd Reserve Division (Emil Waldorf)

XXVII Reserve Corps (Adolph von Carlowitz)
53rd Reserve Division (Hans von Watzdorf)

54th Reserve Division (Paul von Schaefer)

Plettenberg's Corps (Karl von Plettenberg)
2nd Guards Division (Arnold von Winckler)

II Army Corps (Alexander von Linsingen)

 * 30th Aviation Battalion
 * 15th (Heavy) Foot Artillery Regiment

3rd Division (Ferdinand Karl von Trossel)


 * 3rd Artillery Brigade


 * 3rd Horse Grenadiers


 * 5th Infantry Brigade
 * 2nd Grenadier Regiment
 * 9th Grenadier Regiment


 * 6th Infantry Brigade
 * 34th Fusilier Regiment
 * 42nd Infantry Regiment

4th Division (Erich Freyer)


 * 4th Artillery Brigade


 * 12th Dragoons


 * 7th Infantry Brigade
 * 14th Infantry Regiment
 * 149th Infantry Regiment


 * 8th Infantry Brigade
 * 49th Infantry Regiment
 * 140th Infantry Regiment

XV Corps (Berthold von Deimling)
30th Division (Friedrich von Gontard)

39th Division (Hugo von Kathen)

II Royal Bavarian Corps (Karl von Martini)
3rd Bavarian Division (Otto Ritter von Breitkopf)

4th Bavarian Division (Ernst Ritter von Schrott)

6th Bavarian Reserve Division (Maximilian von Speidel)

XIII (Royal Württemberg) Corps (Max von Fabeck)
25th Reserve Division (Thaddäus von Jarotzky)

26th Division (Wilhelm von Urach)

I Cavalry Corps (Manfred von Richthofen)
Guard Cavalry Division (Günther von Etzel)

4th Cavalry Division (Otto von Garnier)

II Cavalry Corps (Georg von der Marwitz)
2nd Cavalry Division (Georg Thumb von Neuburg)

7th Cavalry Division (Ernst von Heydebreck)

IV Cavalry Corps (Gustav von Hollen)
3rd Cavalry Division (Kurt von Unger)

Bavarian Cavalry Division (Karl von Wenninger)

XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps (Maximillian von Laffert)
24th Division (Hans Krug von Nidda)

40th Division (Leo Götz von Olenhusen)

VII Army Corps (Eberhardt von Claer)
13th Division (Kurt von dem Borne)

14th Division (Paul Fleck)

XIV Corps (Theodor von Watter)
28th Division (Kurt von Kehler)

29th Division (August Isbert)