Fantasy Orbats
2: Wellington’s Old Contemptibles of 1914
What if the British Regular Army that went to France in August and
September 1914 was the same one that existed in 1815? Here’s
what the ‘Old Contemptibles’ looked like if re-clad as
their Wellingtonian counterparts.
On paper, it looks remarkably similar in size and composition to the
Duke’s armies of 1814 and 1815. But what, no Light Division?
And what His Grace would have given for all that artillery!!!
1st
Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General C.
J. Briggs)
2nd (The Queen’s) Dragoon Guards
5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
11th Light Dragoons
2nd
Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General H.
de Lisle)
3rd
Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General
H. de la P. Gough)
4th Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General
Hon.C. E. Bingham)
5th Cavalry Brigade (Brigadier-General
Sir P.
W. Chetwode)
Artillery:
1st Division: Major-General
S. H. Lomax.
1st (Guards) Brigade (Brigadier-General
F. I. Maxse)
1/Coldstream Foot Guards
1/3rd Foot Guards
1/42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot (The Black Watch)
2nd Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
E. S. Bulfin)
1/47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot
1/48th (Northamptonshire) Regiment of Foot
3/60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot
3rd Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
H. J. S. Landon)
2nd (Queen’s Royal) Regiment of Foot
1/24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1/28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
1/69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
A Squadron, 15th (The King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars)
Artillery
9 companies RA.
2nd Division: Major-General
C. C. Monro.
4th
(Guards) Brigade (Brigadier-General
R. Scott-Kerr)
2/1st Foot Guards
2/Coldstream Foot Guards
5th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
R. C. B. Haking)
1/36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
1/52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)
74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot
94th (Scotch Brigade) Regiment of Foot
6th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
R. H. Davies)
1/8th (King’s) Regiment of Foot
1/49th (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot
2/60th (Royal American) Regiment of Foot
2/80th (Staffordshire Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
B Squadron, 15th (The King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars)
Artillery
9 companies RA.
3rd Division: Major-General Hubert I. W. Hamilton.
7th
Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General F.
W. N. McCracken)
2/36th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Foot
1/62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot
1/82nd (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) Regiment of Foot
1/86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot
8th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General B. J. C. Doran)
2/1st (The Royal Scots) Regiment of Foot
2/18th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Foot
75th Regiment of Foot
77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
· 9th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
F. C. Shaw)
1/5th (Northumberland Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot
2/7th (Royal Fuzileers) Regiment of Foot
1/10th (Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot
1/21st (Royal North British Fuzileers) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
C Squadron, 15th (The King's) Light Dragoons (Hussars)
Artillery
9 companies RA.
5th Division: Major-General
Sir C. Fergusson.
13th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General G.J.
Cuthbert)
2/25th (King's Own Borderers) Regiment of Foot
1/50th (West Kent) Regiment of Foot
76th Regiment of Foot
14th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
S. P. Rolt)
2/12th (East Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
1/31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment of Foot
1/32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot
96th Regiment of Foot
15th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General A.
E. W. Count Gleichen)
1/9th (East Norfolk) Regiment of Foot
1/16th (Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot
22nd (Cheshire) Regiment of Foot
1/39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
A Squadron, 19th Light Dragoons
Artillery
9 companies RA.
III Corps: Major-General W. P. Pulteney.
4th Division: Major-General
T. D'O. Snow.
10th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General J.
A. L. Haldane)
1/6th (1st Warwickshire) Regiment of Foot
1/78th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot (Ross-shire Buffs)
1/87th (Prince of Wales Own Irish) Regiment of Foot
11th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General A.
G. Hunter-Weston)
13th (1st Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot
1/30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot
1/37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot
1/95th (Rifles) Regiment of Foot
12th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
H. F. M. Wilson)
1/4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot
1/56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
B Squadron, 19th Light Dragoons
Artillery
9 companies RA.
6th Division: Major-General J. L. Keir.
16th Infantry Brigade ( Brigadier-GeneralE.
C. Ingouville-Williams)
1/3rd (East Kent, The Buffs) Regiment of Foot
1/17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot
1/53rd (Shropshire) Regiment of Foot
1/84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot
17th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General W. R.
B. Doran)
1/7th (Royal Fuzileers) Regiment of Foot
1/64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
3/95th (Rifle) Regiment of Foot
18th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier-General
W. N. Congreve)
1/15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment of Foot
19th (1st Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
Divisional Troops
C Squadron, 19th Light Dragoons
Artillery
9 companies RA.
Any omissions are units that did not exist in 1815.....apologies
to them.
Sources:
British
Expeditionary Force Order of Battle (1914). Accessed February
2010.
Placed on the Napoleon Series: September 2010
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