MOUNTED & MOTORISED

In October 1915 the Cavalry and Motor branches were created to be more mobile than the infantry brigade companies

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In each cavalry brigade, a brigade machine gun squadron was formed in a similar format to the infantry company – the machine gun section of a cavalry regiment, their machine guns and men, were used to form the new company. There were only three cavalry regiments in a brigade and each of the sections, so a machine gun squadron had three-quarters of the firepower of its infantry equivalent. They were organised into six sections of two guns each so there was more flexibility to support the half-squadrons being used.

Cavalry machine guns were moved by limbered wagon but they were able to use their packsaddlery to move alongside the squadrons of the cavalry regiments they supported (infantry companies did also have packsaddlery but this was considered an aid for moving over difficult terrain rather than keeping up with the supported troops).