7th Mounted Brigade

Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade 3rd (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Mounted Brigade 7th Mounted Brigade 14th Cavalry Brigade
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade Cap Badge
Active	1908 – September 1919
Country	United Kingdom
Allegiance	British Crown
Branch	British Army British Indian Army
Type	Yeomanry, Cavalry
Size	Brigade
Part of	2nd Mounted Division 5th Cavalry Division
HQ (peacetime)	Nottingham
Engagements	First World War Gallipoli 1915 Salonika 1916–17 Egypt and Palestine 1917–18
Commanders
Notable commanders	Goland Vanhalt Clarke

First World War

The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Mounted Brigade (later numbered as the 7th Mounted Brigade) was a yeomanry brigade of the British Army, formed as part of the Territorial Force in 1908.

It served dismounted in the Gallipoli Campaign before being remounted to serve in the Salonika and Sinai and Palestine Campaigns in the First World War.

In April 1918, it was merged with elements of the 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade to form 14th Cavalry Brigade. It remained in Palestine after the end of the war on occupation duties.

Under the terms of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 (7 Edw.7, c.9), the brigade was formed in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force. It consisted of three yeomanry regiments, a horse artillery battery and ammunition column, a transport and supply column and a field ambulance.

As the name suggests, the units were drawn from Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

The brigade was embodied on 4 August 1914 upon the outbreak of the First World War. Initially, it concentrated in Berkshire and on 5 August 1914 joined the 1st Mounted Division. On 2 September it was transferred to the 2nd Mounted Division and in mid November 1914 it moved with its division to Norfolk on coastal defence duties.