2lst Infantry Brigade—General Walls.
2nd Bedfords.
2nd Yorks.
2nd Wilts.
2nd Scots Fusiliers.
22nd Infantry Brigade—General Lawford.
1st South Staffords.
2nd Warwicks.
2nd Queen's West Surrey.
1st Welsh Fusiliers.
Artillery.
22nd Brigade R.F.A.
35th Brigade R.F.A.
3rd R.G.A.
111th R.G.A.
112th R.G.A.
14th Brigade R.H.A. C.F.
Engineers.
54, 55, F. Co.
7 Signal Co.
Divisional Cavalry.
Northumberland Yeomanry.
Its peculiar excellence.
It is not too much to say that in an army where every division had done so well no single one was composed of such fine material as the Seventh. The reason was that the regiments composing it had all been drawn from foreign garrison duty, and consisted largely of soldiers of from three to seven years' standing, with a minimum of reservists. In less than a month from the day when this grand division of 18,000 men went into action its infantry had been nearly annihilated, but the details of its glorious destruction furnish one more vivid page of British military achievement. We lost a noble division and gained a glorious record.
The Third Cavalry Division under General Byng was attached to the Seventh Division, and joined up with it at Roulers upon October 13. It consisted of—
6th Cavalry Brigade—General Makings.
3rd Dragoon Guards.
10th Hussars.
1st Royals.
7th Cavalry Brigade—General Kavanagh.
1st Life Guards.
2nd Life Guards.
1st Horse Guards.
1st Horse Guards.
K Battery, R.H.A.