Topic: AIF & MEF & EEF
Order Of Battle of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, September 1918
Part 5, Chaytor's Force
As part of the Official British War History of the Great War, Captain Cyril Falls was commissioned to produce a commentary on the Sinai, Palestine and Syrian operations that took place. In 1930, his finished work, Military Operations Egypt and Palestine from June 1917 to the end of the war, produced in two parts, was published in London. The book included Appendix 2 which specifically detailed the Order Of Battle of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, October 1917 and is extracted below. Falls makes the comment that this Order of Battle was not as comprehensive as that produced in the earlier volume.
Falls, C, Military Operations Egypt and Palestine from June 1917 to the end of the war, Part II, London, 1930, Appendix 3 p. 673:
Chaytor's Force.
G.O.C. -
Major-General Sir E. W. C. Chaytor, K.C.M.G., C.B.
(With Staff of A. and N.Z. Mounted Division.)
Australian and New Zealand Mounted Division.
1st Australian Light Horse Brigade
G.O.C. -
Br. General C. F. Cox, C.B.
1st Regt. A.L.H.
2nd Regt. A.L.H.
3rd Regt. A.L.H.
2nd Australian Light Horse Brigade
G.O.C. -
Br. General G. de L. Ryrie, C.M.G.
5th Regt. A.L.H.
6th Regt. A.L.H.
7th Regt. A.L.H.
New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade
G.O.C. -
Br. General W. Meldrum, C.B., D.S.O.
Auckland M.R. Regt.
Canterbury M.R. Regt.
Wellington M.R. Regt.
Artillery -
XVIII Brigade R.H.A. (Inverness, Ayr, and Somerset Btys.).
Engineers -
A. and N.Z. Field Sqdn.
20th Indian Brigade
G.O.C. -
Br. General E. R. B. Murray.
Alwar I.S. Infantry.
Patiala I.S. Infantry.
Gwalior I.S. Infantry.
110th Mahratta L.I.
38/R. Fusiliers.
39/R. Fusiliers.
1/British West Indies Regt.
2/British West Indies Regt.
Artillery
75th Bty. R.F.A.,
[Note: From 10th Divisional Artillery.].
29th and 32nd (2.75-in.) Indian Mountain Btys..
195th Heavy Bty. R.G.A.,
[Note: Also 2 Sections captured 75-mm. guns and 1 Section 150-mm. howitzers.].
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Citation: Order Of Battle of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, September 1918, Part 5, Chaytor's Force
