2nd Cavalry Brigade (United Kingdom)

2nd Cavalry Brigade
The 2nd Cavalry Brigade at the Battle of Waterloo
Active	1815 1899–1902 1914–1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Cavalry
Size	Brigade
Part of	1st Cavalry Division (World War I)
Engagements	Napoleonic Wars Battle of Waterloo Second Boer War Battle of Paardeberg World War I Western Front
Commanders
Notable commanders	Sir William Ponsonby John French, 1st Earl of Ypres Cecil Edward Bingham Beauvoir De Lisle

The 2nd Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of the British Army. It served in the Napoleonic Wars (2nd Union Cavalry Brigade), the Boer War and in the First World War when it was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division.

Prior to World War I the brigade was based at Tidworth Camp in England; and originally consisted of three cavalry regiments and a Royal Engineers signal troop. After the declaration of war in August 1914, the brigade was deployed to the Western Front in France, where an artillery battery joined the brigade the following September and a Machine Gun Squadron in February 1916.^[1]