The South Eastern Mounted Brigade was a formation of the Territorial Force of the British Army, organised in 1908.
[4] The brigade was mobilised on 4 August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War and concentrated in the Canterbury area of Kent.
The Surrey Yeomanry (attached for training, pre-war) was detached in November 1914 and split up as divisional cavalry squadrons.
[5] The rest of the brigade remained in the Canterbury area (under Second Army of Central Force[6]) until September 1915,[3] the Field Ambulance detachment occupying the St Lawrence cricket ground.
In this period, the brigade consisted of the three yeomanry regiments, a signal troop and the field ambulance under the command of Br.-Gen. H.