The 5th Division was a regular division of the British Indian Army

British Indian Army

The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...

 and part of the Southern Army which was formed in 1903 after Lord Kitchener was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India

Commander-in-Chief, India

During the period of the British Raj, the Commander-in-Chief, India was the supreme commander of the Indian Army. The Commander-in-Chief and most of his staff were based at General Headquarters, India, and liaised with the civilian Governor-General of India...

 between 1902 and 1909. He instituted large-scale reforms, including merging the three armies of the Presidencies into a unified force and forming higher level formations, eight army divisions, and brigading Indian and British units. Following Kitchener's reforms

Kitchener Reforms

The Kitchener Reforms of the Indian Army began in 1903 when Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, newly appointed Commander-in-Chief, India, completed the unification of the three armies of the former Presidencies , and also the Punjab Frontier Force, the Hyderabad Contingent and other local forces, into one...

, the British Indian Army was "the force recruited locally and permanently based in India, together with its expatriate British officers."

The Division remained in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 on internal security duties during World War I

World War I

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, but some of its units were transferred to serve with other Formations. The Cavalry units formed the 5th (Mhow) Cavalry Brigade in the 2nd Indian Cavalry Division

2nd Indian Cavalry Division

The 2nd Indian Cavalry Division was a regular division of the British Indian Army during World War I.-History:The division sailed for France from Bombay on October 16, 1914, under the command of Major General G A Cookson. During the war the division would serve in the trenches as infantry...

 and served in France

France

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 and Egypt

Egypt

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.

Nasirabad Brigade

Commanding General Major General Davison

• 27th Light Cavalry
  16th Light Cavalry
  The 16th Light Cavalry is a regiment of the Armoured Corps, a primary combat arm of the Indian Army. Prior to India gaining independence from the British in 1947, it was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army...
  
  
• 1st Btn Royal Irish Regiment
  Royal Irish Regiment (1684-1922)
  The Royal Irish Regiment, until 1881 the 18th Regiment of Foot, was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1684. Also known as the 18th Regiment of Foot and the 18th Regiment of Foot, it was one of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, its home depot in...
  
  
• 42nd Deoli Regiment
  42nd Deoli Regiment
  The 42nd Deoli Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traced their origins to 1857, when the Meena Battalion was raised during the Indian Mutiny. This battalion was the nucleus for the infantry of the Deoli Irregular Force which in May 1861, numbered eight...
  
  
• 43rd Erinpura Regiment
  43rd Erinpura Regiment
  The 43rd Erinpura Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army. They were raised in 1860, as the Erinpoorah Irregular Force by a Lt-Col J F W Hall and at that time consisted of both cavalry and infantry units. After the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army in 1903, they became an infantry...
  
  
• 44th Merwara Infantry
  44th Merwara Infantry
  The 44th Merwara Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1824, when the Sylhet Light Infantry was raised. This first 44th eventually became the 44th Gurkhas and later 8th Gurkha Rifles....
  
  
• 90th Punjabis
  90th Punjabis
  The 90th Punjabis were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was raised in 1799 as a battalion of Madras Native Infantry. It was designated as the 90th Punjabis in 1903 and became 2nd Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment in 1922...
  
  
• XIII Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
  Royal Horse Artillery
  The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...
  
  
• XI Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
  Royal Field Artillery
  The Royal Field Artillery of the British Army provided artillery support for the British Army. It came into being when the Royal Artillery was divided on 1 July 1899, it was reamalgamated back into the Royal Artillery in 1924....
  
  
• XIX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery

Jubbulpore Brigade

Commanding General, Major General Fanshawe

Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe

Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, KCB, KCMG, was a British Army general of the First World War, who commanded V Corps on the Western Front and the 18th Indian Division in the Mesopotamian Campaign...

• 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
  2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
  The 2nd Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army raised in 1809. It served in the Nepal and First World Wars. During the reconstruction of the British Indian Army in 1922 it was amalgamated with the 4th Cavalry....
  
  
• 32nd Lancers
• 2nd Btn Cheshire Regiment
  Cheshire Regiment
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• 1st Btn York and Lancaster Regiment
  York and Lancaster Regiment
  -History:It was formed in 1881 through the amalgamation of two other regiments:*65th Regiment*84th RegimentThe title of the regiment was derived not from the cities of York and Lancaster, or from the counties...
  
  
• 2nd Btn East Yorkshire Regiment
  East Yorkshire Regiment
  The East Yorkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment , becoming The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of...
  
  
• 16th Rajputs (The Lucknow Regiment)
  16th Rajputs (The Lucknow Regiment)
  The 16th Rajputs was an infantry regiment of the Bengal Army and later of the united British Indian Army.It can trace its origins to 1857, during the Indian Mutiny when it was formed from men of the 13th, 48th and 71st Bengal Native Infantry regiments that remained loyal to the British...
  
  
• 63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry
  63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry
  The 63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment could trace its origins to 1759, when it was raised as the 4th Battalion Coast Sepoys.-History:...
  
  
• 97th Deccan Infantry
  97th Deccan Infantry
  The 97th Deccan Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origin to 1794, when they were the 3rd Battalion of the Aurangabad Division in the Hyderabad State army...
  
  
• 98th Infantry
  98th Infantry
  The 98th Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1788, when they were raised as the 1st Battalion of the Ellichpur Brigade for the Princely state of Hyderabad...
  
  
• Royal Garrison Artillery
  Royal Garrison Artillery
  The Royal Garrison Artillery was an arm of the Royal Artillery that was originally tasked with manning the guns of the British Empire's forts and fortresses, including coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division, and the guns of the siege...
  
  , 71 and 90 Companies

Jhansi Brigade

Commanding General, Major General Townshend

• 8th Lancers
  8th Lancers
  This regiment was one of the forty cavalry regiments of the British Indian Army. It had originally been part of the army of the East India Company before passing into the reorganised Bengal Army of the post-Mutiny period and ultimately into the unified Indian Army of 1904...
  
  
• 38th Central Indian Horse
  The Central India Horse (21st King George V's Own Horse)
  The Central India Horse was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army. They were formed at the start of the Mutiny of 1857 and served in the Great War and World War II.-Formation:...
  
  
• 2nd Btn Royal Berkshire Regiment
  Royal Berkshire Regiment
  The Royal Berkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th Regiment of Foot and the 66th Regiment of Foot.The regiment was originally formed as The Princess Charlotte of Wales's , taking the...
  
  
• 10th Jats
  10th Jats
  The 10th Jats were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1823, when they were known as the 1st Battalion, 33rd Bengal Native Infantry. Over the years they became known by a number of different titles...
  
  
• 99th Deccan Infantry
  99th Deccan Infantry
  The 99th Deccan Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1788, when they were raised as the 1st Battalion of the Ellichpur Brigade for the Princely state of Hyderabad...
  
  
• 107th Pioneers
  107th Pioneers
  The 107th Pioneers were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1788, when they were raised as the 4th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys.The regiments first action was in the Third Anglo-Mysore War...
  
  
• 116th Mahrattas
  116th Mahrattas
  The 116th Mahrattas were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1800, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion, 7th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry....
  
  
• Royal Garrison Artillery , 60 Company

Unbrigaded Units

• 14th King's Hussars
  14th King's Hussars
  The 14th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1715. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922....
  
  
• 2nd Btn Hampshire Regiment
• 96th Berah Infantry
• 125th Napier's Rifles
  125th Napier's Rifles
  The 125th Napier's Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. Its earlier names include:1st Extra Battalion Bombay Native Infantry, The 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry and The 25th Bombay Rifles...
  
  
• VI Brigade RFA
• XX Brigade RFA

Further reading

• Perry, F.W. & Becke, A.F. (1945). History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions: Indian Army Divisions Pt. 5B. London HMSO. ISBN 1-871167-23-X
• Haythornthwaite P.J. (1992). The World War One Sourcebook, Arms and Armour Press.
• Moberly, F.J. (1923). Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign, Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-870423-30-5