Order of battle at Mons
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The following units of the German First Army and British Expeditionary Force fought in the Battle of Mons
Battle of Mons
The Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of the Frontiers, in which the Allies clashed with Germany on the French borders. At Mons, the British army attempted to hold the line of the...

 in World War I
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

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II Army Corps
II Corps (German Empire)
The II Army Corps was a unit of the Imperial German Army that was stationed in Stettin. At the outbreak of World War I, the corps served on the Western Front.In 1914, the component units of the corps were:*3rd Division*4th Division...

30th Aviation Battalion
15th Foot Artillery Regiment (heavy)


3rd Infantry Division
3rd Division (German Empire)
The 3rd Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Stettin in May 1816 as a Troop Brigade . It became the 3rd Division on September 5, 1818. From the corps' formation in 1820, the division was subordinated in peacetime to the II Army Corps...


3rd Artillery Brigade

3rd Horse Grenadiers

5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Grenadier Regiment
9th Grenadier Regiment

6th Infantry Brigade
34th Fusilier Regiment
42nd Infantry Regiment


4th Infantry Division
4th Division (German Empire)
The 4th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Torgau on September 5, 1818. The headquarters moved to Stargard in 1820, where it stayed until 1852. In 1852, the headquarters moved to its final destination, Bromberg...


4th Artillery Brigade

12th Dragoons

7th Infantry Brigade
14th Infantry Regiment
149th Infantry Regiment

8th Infantry Brigade
49th Infantry Regiment
140th Infantry Regiment

III Army Corps
III Corps (German Empire)
The III Army Corps was a formation in the Imperial German Army. It was established in 1814 as the General Headquarters in Berlin and became the III Army Corps on April 3, 1820...

7th Aviation Battalion
2nd Guard Foot Artillery (heavy)
3rd Hussars


5th Infantry Division
5th Division (German Empire)
The 5th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Crossen in 1816 as a brigade, moved to Frankfurt an der Oder in 1817, and became the 5th Division on September 5, 1818. The headquarters moved to Berlin in 1840 and back to Frankfurt in 1845. The division was subordinated...


5th Artillery Brigade

9th Infantry Brigade
8th Leib Grenadier Regiment
48th Infantry Regiment

10th Infantry Brigade
12th Grenadier Regiment
52nd Infantry Regiment


6th Infantry Division
6th Division (German Empire)
The 6th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Düsseldorf in 1816 as a brigade and became the 6th Division on September 5, 1818. The headquarters moved to Torgau in 1820 and then to Brandenburg in 1850. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the III Army Corps...


6th Artillery Brigade

11th Infantry Brigade
20th Infantry Regiment
35th Fusilier Regiment

12th Infantry Brigade
24th Infantry Regiment
64th Infantry Regiment
3rd Jaeger Battalion

IV Army Corps
IV Corps (German Empire)
The IV Army Corps was a formation of the Imperial German Army. It was established on October 3, 1815 as the General Command in the Duchy of Saxony and became the IV Army Corps on August 30, 1818...

9th Aviation Battalion
4th Foot Artillery Regiment (heavy)
10th Hussars


7th Infantry Division
7th Division (German Empire)
The 7th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Magdeburg in November 1816 as a brigade and became a division on September 5, 1818. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IV Army Corps . The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the...


7th Artillery Brigade

13th Infantry Brigade
26th Infantry Regiment
66th Infantry Regiment

14th Infantry Brigade
27th Infantry Regiment
165th Infantry Regiment


8th Infantry Division
8th Division (German Empire)
The 8th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed in Erfurt in November 1816 as a brigade and became a division on September 5, 1818. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IV Army Corps . The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German...


8th Artillery Brigade

15th Infantry Brigade
36th Fusilier Regiment
93rd Infantry Regiment

16th Infantry Brigade
72nd Infantry Regiment
153rd Infantry Regiment
4th Jaeger Battalion

IX Army Corps

9th Aviation Battalion
20th Foot Artillery Regiment (heavy)
16th Dragoons


17th Infantry Division
17th Division (German Empire)
The 17th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed on October 11, 1866 and initially headquartered in Kiel. It moved its headquarters to Schwerin in 1871. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IX Army Corps...


17th Artillery Brigade

33rd Infantry Brigade
75th Infantry Regiment
76th Infantry Regiment

34th Infantry Brigade
89th Grenadier Regiment
90th Fusilier Regiment
9th Jaeger Battalion


18th Infantry Division
18th Division (German Empire)
The 18th Division was a unit of the Prussian/German Army. It was formed on October 11, 1866 and was headquartered in Flensburg. The division was subordinated in peacetime to the IX Army Corps . The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I...


18th Artillery Brigade

35th Infantry Brigade
84th Infantry Regiment
86th Fusilier Regiment

36th Infantry Brigade
31st Infantry Regiment
85th Infantry Regiment

III Reserve Corps

Composite Cavalry Unit (3 squadrons each from 2nd Reserve Dragoon Regiment and 3rd Reserve Uhlan Regiment


5th Reserve Division
5th Reserve Division (German Empire)
The 5th Reserve Division was a unit of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914. The division was disbanded in 1919 during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I...


6 batteries, 6th Reserve Field Artillery Regiment

9th Reserve Infantry Brigade
8th Reserve Infantry Regiment
48th Reserve Infantry Regiment

10th Reserve Infantry Brigade
12th Reserve Infantry Regiment
52nd Reserve Infantry Regiment


6th Reserve Division
6th Reserve Division (German Empire)
The 6th Reserve Division was a unit of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914. The division was disbanded in September 1918...


6 batteries, 6th Reserve Field Artillery Regiment

11th Reserve Infantry Brigade
20th Reserve Infantry Regiment
24th Reserve Infantry Regiment

12the Reserve Infantry Brigade
26th Reserve Infantry Regiment
35th Reserve Infantry Regiment

IV Reserve Corps

Composite Cavalry Unit (3 squadrons each from Reserve Heavy Cavalry Regiment and Reserve Jaeger zu Pferd)


7th Reserve Division
7th Reserve Division (German Empire)
The 7th Reserve Division was a unit of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914. The division was disbanded during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I...


6 batteries of 7th Field Artillery Regiment

13th Reserve Brigade
27th Reserve Infantry Regiment
36th Reserve Infantry Regiment

14th Reserve Brigade
66th Reserve Infantry Regiment
72nd Reserve Infantry Regiment
4th Reserve Jaeger Battalion


22nd Reserve Division
22nd Reserve Division (German Empire)
The 22nd Reserve Division was a unit of the German Army in World War I. The division was formed on mobilization of the German Army in August 1914...


6 batteries of 22nd Reserve Field Artillery Regiment

43rd Reserve Infantry Brigade
71st Reserve Infantry Regiment
94th Reserve Infantry Regiment
11th Reserve Jaeger Battalion

44th Reserve Infantry Brigade
32nd Reserve Infantry Regiment
82nd Reserve Infantry Regiment


10th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
12th Landwehr Infantry Regiment
52nd Landwehr Infantry Regiment


11th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
20th Landwehr Infantry Regiment
35th Landwehr Infantry Regiment


27th Landwehr Brigade
53rd Landwehr Infantry Regiment
55th Landwehr Infantry Regiment


Composite Landwehr Cavalry Unit (3 squadrons)
Composite Lansturm Artillery Unit (2 batteries)

Army Troops
12th Aviation Battalion

British Expeditionary Force (French
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC , known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a British and Anglo-Irish officer...

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The Cavalry Division (Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Field Marshal Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby GCB, GCMG, GCVO was a British soldier and administrator most famous for his role during the First World War, in which he led the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in the conquest of Palestine and Syria in 1917 and 1918.Allenby, nicknamed...

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1st Brigade
2nd Dragoon Guards
5th Dragoon Guards
11th Hussars

2nd Brigade
4th Dragoon Guards
9th Lancers
19th Hussars

3rd Brigade
4th Hussars
5th Lancers
16th Lancers

4th Brigade
6th Dragoon Guards
3rd Hussars
Composite Regiment of Household Cavalry

5th Brigade
2nd Dragoons
12th Lancers
20th Hussars

III Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
'D' Battery
'E' Battery

VIII Brigade Royal Horse Artillery
'I' Battery
'L' Battery

I Corps (Haig
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...

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1st Division (Lomax
Samuel Lomax
Lieutenant General Samuel Holt Lomax was a senior and highly respected British general who served in the opening months of World War I and was the first British Lieutenant Generals to be killed on active service during the entire war.-Military service:Born in August 1855 to Thomas and Mary Helen...

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1st Guards Brigade
1st Coldstream Guards
1st Scots Guards
1st Black Watch
2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers

2nd Infantry Brigade
2nd Royal Sussex
1st Loyal North Lancashire
1st Northamptonshire
2nd The Kings Royal Rifle Corps

3rd Infantry Brigade
1st Royal West Surrey
1st South Wales Borderers
1st Gloucestershire
2nd Welsh

XXV Brigade Royal Field Artillery
113th Battery
114th Battery
115th Battery

XXVI Brigade Royal Field Artillery
116th Battery
117th Battery
118th Battery

XXXIX Brigade Royal Field Artillery
46th Battery
51st Battery
54th Battery

XLIII (Howitzer) Royal Field Artillery
30th (howitzer) Battery
40th (howitzer) Battery
57th (howitzer) Battery

26th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


2nd Division (Monro
Charles Carmichael Monro
General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Baronet of Bearcrofts, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, was a British Army General during World War I and Governor of Gibraltar from 1923 to 1929.-Military career:...

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4th Guards Brigade
2nd Grenadier Guards
2nd Coldstream Guards
3rd Coldstream Guards
1st Irish Guards

5th Infantry Brigade
2nd Worcestershire
2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
2nd Highland Light Infantry
2nd Connaught Rangers

6th Infantry Brigade
1st Liverpool
2nd South Staffordshire
1st Royal Berkshire
1st Kings Royal Rifle Corps

XXXIV Brigade Royal Field Artillery
22nd Battery
50th Battery
70th Battery

XXXVI Brigade Royal Field Artillery
15th Battery
48th Battery
71st Battery

XLI Brigade Royal Field Artillery
9th Battery
16th Battery
17th Battery

XLIV (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
47th (howitzer) Battery
56th (howitzer) Battery
60th (howitzer) Battery

35th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery

II Corps (Smith-Dorrien
Horace Smith-Dorrien
General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC was a British soldier and commander of the British II Corps and Second Army of the BEF during World War I.-Early life and career:...

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3rd Division (Hamilton
Hubert Hamilton
Major General Hubert Ion Wetherall Hamilton CB, CVO, DSO was a senior British general who served with distinction throughout his career, seeing battle in the Mahdist War in Egypt and the Second Boer War in South Africa, before being given command of the British Third Division at the outbreak of...

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7th Infantry Brigade
3rd Worcestershire
2nd South Lancashire
1st Duke of Edinburgh’s
2nd Royal Irish Rifles

8th Infantry Brigade
2nd Royal Scots
2nd Royal Irish
4th Duke of Cambridge’s Own
1st Gordon Highlanders

9th Infantry Brigade
1st Northumberland Fusiliers
4th Royal Fusiliers
1st Lincolnshire
1st Royal Scots Fusiliers

XXIII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
107th Battery
108th Battery
109th Battery

XL Brigade Royal Field Artillery
6th Battery
23rd Battery
49th Battery

XLII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
29th Battery
41st Battery
75th Battery

XXX (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
128th (howitzer) Battery
129th (howitzer) Battery
130th (howitzer) Battery

48th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


5th Division (Fergusson)
13th Infantry Brigade
2nd Kings Own Scottish Borderers
2nd Duke of Wellington’s Own
1st Royal West Kent
2nd Yorkshire Light Infantry

14th Infantry Brigade
2nd Suffolk
1st East Surrey
1st Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
2nd Manchester

15th Infantry Brigade
1st Norfolk
1st Bedfordshire
1st Cheshire
1st Dorsetshire

XV Brigade Royal Field Artillery
11th Battery
52nd Battery
81st Battery

XXVII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
119th Battery
120th Battery
121st Battery

XXVII Brigade Royal Field Artillery
122nd Battery
123rd Battery
124th Battery

VIII (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery
37th (howitzer) Battery
61st (howitzer) Battery
65th (howitzer) Battery

108th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery


Army Troops
A and C Squadrons North Irish Horse
B Squadron South Irish Horse
1st Queens Own Cameron Highlanders


Line of communications defense troops
1st Devonshire
19th Infantry Brigade (formed August 22nd, 1914)
2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1st Cameronians
1st Duke of Cambridge’s Own
2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Royal Flying Corps in the Field (Henderson)

2nd Aeroplane Squadron
No. 2 Squadron RAF
No. 2 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is currently one of two RAF squadrons operating in the reconnaissance role with the Tornado GR4A and GR4 and is based at RAF Marham, Norfolk.No. II Squadron holds claim to being "the oldest heavier-than-air flying machine squadron in the world", along with No...

 (Burke
Charles Burke (British Army officer)
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles James Burke DSO was an officer in the Royal Irish Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps and a military aviation pioneer....

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3rd Aeroplane Squadron
No. 3 Squadron RAF
No 3 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Typhoon F2, FGR4 and T3 from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.No 3 Squadron, which celebrated its 95th anniversary over the weekend of 11-13 May 2007, is unique in the RAF for having two official crests....

 (Salmond
John Salmond
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Maitland Salmond, GCB, CMG, CVO, DSO and Bar was a British military officer who rose to high rank in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I...

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4th Aeroplane Squadron (Raleigh)
5th Aeroplane Squadron
No. 5 Squadron RAF
No. 5 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is the operator of the new Sentinel R1 Airborne STand-Off Radar aircraft and is based at RAF Waddington.-History:As No...

 (Higgins
John Frederick Andrews Higgins
Air Marshal Sir John Frederick Andrews Higgins KCB, KBE, DSO, AFC, RAF was a senior officer in the Royal Flying Corps and a senior commander in the Royal Air Force in the first half of the 20th century.-RAF career:...

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1st Aircraft Park

Sources

  • Bell, Ron. “The Old Contemptibles.” Strategy & Tactics, Number 228 (May/June 2005).
  • Terraine, John. Mons, The Retreat to Victory. Wordsworth. pp. 200 - 202
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