The brigade served as part of the Western Frontier Force and the Suez Canal Defences.

[5] Both brigades were withdrawn to Egypt in December 1915 and formed part of the Western Frontier Force.

[6] The 2nd Dismounted Brigade was formed as part of the Western Frontier Force with the following composition:[1] On 27 September 1916, the 1/1st and 1/2nd Lovat Scouts (along with a company of the 1/3rd Scottish Horse) were merged to form the 10th (Lovat's Scouts) Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders at Cairo.

The brigade served as part of the Western Frontier Force[1] and on the Suez Canal Defences.

[12] The brigade was with the Suez Canal Defences when, on 14 January 1917, Egyptian Expeditionary Force (EEF) Order No.

[13] The brigade units were reorganized in January 1917:[13] On 23 February, the GOC EEF (Lt-Gen Sir A.J.

Here the dismounted Yeomanry underwent training for service on the Western Front, particularly gas defence.

[14] Due to a lack of replacements, British[i] infantry divisions on the Western Front had been reduced from 12 to 9 battalions in January and February 1918.

[14] With the end of the war, the troops of 74th Division were engaged in railway repair work and education was undertaken while demobilisation began.

[17] Reginald Hoare was born 18/9/1865, 13th of 14 children all of whom survived into old age, educated at Eton and Sandhurst and in 1886 commissioned into the 4th Queens Own Hussars, which was posted to India along with a new bumptious subaltern called Winston Churchill.

Having trained the Brigade he served the whole war with it, Gallipoli 1915, defence of Suez and Egypt 1916, Palestine 1917, and the Western Front.