First Battle of Ypres order of battle

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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.

British Expeditionary Force (John French)

I Corps (Douglas Haig)

1st Division (Samuel Lomax) 2nd Division (Charles Monro)

II Corps (Horace Smith-Dorrien)

3rd Division (Aylmer Haldane) 5th Division (Charles Fergusson)

III Corps (William Pulteney)

4th Division (Henry Wilson) 6th Division (John Keir)

Royal Flying Corps (David Henderson)

Cavalry Corps (Edmund Allenby)

1st Cavalry Division (Beauvoir De Lisle) 2nd Cavalry Division (Hubert Gough)

IV Corps (Henry Rawlinson)

7th Division (Thompson Capper) 3rd Cavalry Division (Julian Byng)

Indian Corps (James Willcocks)

Lahore Division (H.B.B. Watkis) Meerut Division (C.A. Anderson)

Units at Antwerp

Royal Naval Division (Archibald Paris)

French VIII Army (Victor d'Urbal)

IX Corps (Pierre Joseph Dubois)

XVI Corps (Paul François Grossetti)

XXXII Corps (Georges Louis Humbert)

XX Corps (Balfourier)

II Cavalry Corps (Antoine de Mitry)

I Cavalry Corps (Louis Conneau)

German Fourth Army (Albrecht of Württemberg)

Marine Division (Ludwig von Schröder)

III Reserve Corps (von Beseler)

5th Reserve Division (Richard Voigt) 6th Reserve Division (Emil von Schickfuß und Neudorf) 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)

3rd Division (Ferdinand Karl von Trossel) 4th Division (Erich Freyer)

XV Corps (Berthold von Deimling)

30th Division (Friedrich von Gontard) 39th Division (Hugo von Kathen)

German Sixth Army (Rupprecht of Bavaria)

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)

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