Topic: AIF & MEF & EEF
Order Of Battle of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, April 1916
Part 10, No. 3 Section Canal Defences
As part of the Official British War History of the Great War, Captain Cyril Falls and Lieutenant General George MacMunn were commissioned to produce a commentary on the Sinai, Palestine and Syrian operations that took place. In 1928, their finished work, Military Operations, Egypt and Palestine - From the outbreak of war with Germany to June 1917, was published in London. Their book included Appendix 2 which specifically detailed the Order Of Battle of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, April 1916 and is extracted below.
MacMunn, G. & Falls, C., Military operations: Egypt and Palestine, (London 1930), p. 388:
No. 3 Section Canal Defences.
G O.C., etc. - Headquarters, 52nd Division.
Corps Troops.
Mounted Troops -
5th Mounted Brigade.
G.O.C. -
Colonel (temp. Brig.-General) E. A. Wiggin, D.S.O.
1/Ist Warwick Yeomanry;
1/1st Gloucester Yeomanry;
1/1st Worcester Yeomanry;
1/1st S. Midland Signal Troop;
"A" Battery, H.A.C.;
No. 7 Field Troop ;
1/1st S. Midland Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance.
Engineers -
220th Army Troops Company, R.E.
Signal Service -
No. 21 Airline Section.
"WW" Cable Section.
52nd (Lowland) Division.
G.O.C. -
Major-General Hon. H. A. Lawrence.
G.S.O. 1 -
Lieut.-Colonel F. W. J. Walshe.
C.R.A. -
Lieut.-Colonel (temp. Brig.-General) F. L. Parker, C.M.G.
C.R.E. -
Major (temp. Lieut.-Colonel) R. L. Waller.
155th Infantry Brigade.
G.O.C. -
Lieut.-Colonel (temp. Brig.-General) J. B. Pollok-McCall.
1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers;
1/5th Royal Scots Fusiliers;
1/4th King's Own Scottish Borderers;
1/5th King's Own Scottish Borderers;
155th Brigade Machine-Gun Company.
156th Infantry Brigade.
G.O.C. -
Brevet Colonel (temp. Brig.-General) L. C. Koe.
1 /4th Royal Scots;
1/7th Royal Scots;
1/7th Scottish Rifles;
1/8th Scottish Rifles;
156th Brigade Machine-Gun Company.
157th Infantry Brigade.
G.O.C. -
Brevet Colonel (temp. Brig.-General) H. G. Casson, C.M.G.
1/5th Highland Light Infantry;
1/6th Highland Light Infantry;
1/7th Highland Light Infantry;
1/5th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders;
157th Brigade Machine-Gun Company.
Divisional Troops.
Mounted Troops -
H.Q. and "C" Squadron, Royal Glasgow Yeomanry.
52nd Cyclist Company.
Artillery -
1/2nd Lowland Brigade, R.F.A.
1/3rd Lowland Brigade, R.F.A.
1/4th Lowland Brigade, R.F.A.
1/5th Lowland Brigade, R.F.A.
52nd Divisional Ammunition Column (1 officer and 35 other ranks).
Engineers -
2/1st Lowland Field Company, R.E.
2/2nd Lowland Field Company, R.E.
1/2nd Lowland Field Company, R.E.
Signal Service -
52nd Divisional Signal Company.
A.S.C. -
52nd Divisional Train.
Medical Units -
1/1st, 1/2nd, 1/3rd Lowland Field Ambulances.
Attached -
1st Dismounted Brigade.
G.O.C. -
Temp. Brig.-General the Marques of Tullibardine, M.V.O., D.S.O.
1/1st Scottish Horse;
1/2nd Scottish Horse;
1/3rd Scottish Horse;
1/1st Ayr Yeomanry;
1/1st Lanark Yeomanry;
Machine-Gun Company;
1st Dismounted Brigade Signal Troop;
1/1st Scottish Horse and 1/1st Lowland Field Ambulances.
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