[a] For the Hundred Days Campaign, he numbered his British cavalry brigades in a single sequence, 1st to 7th.

[b] The 6th Cavalry Brigade consisted of: It was commanded by Major General Sir Hussey Vivian.

[13] It commanded three regular British Army cavalry regiments,[14] the only ones not stationed in the United Kingdom or India at the outbreak of the war.

[16] The brigade landed at Ostend on 8 October 1914[18] and deployed to the Western Front in France and Belgium.

[13] At other times, the brigade formed a dismounted unit and served in the trenches (as a regiment under the command of the brigadier).

[22] At the Armistice, units of the division had reached the River Dender at Leuze and Lessines in Belgium, when orders were received that they would cover the advance of the Second Army into Germany.

Transport difficulties meant that the only one cavalry division could advance with Second Army so the following winter was spent in Belgium.

[25] 8th Armoured Brigade would later take part in the Second Battle of El Alamein and land at Gold Beach on D Day.