[1][3][4] Order of Battle of VII Corps 14 July 1915[5] General Officer Commanding (GOC): Lt-Gen Sir Thomas D'O.

Tanner From 10 May 1916 to 16 July 1917, 1st North Irish Horse constituted VII Corps Cavalry Regiment.

Finally, for the subsequent actions on the Hindenburg Line, 20 May-16 June, VII Corps had 21st and 33rd Divisions under command.

[4] and the corps fought during Operation Michael and the subsequent victorious British advance of the Hundred Days Offensive that ended the war.

On 17 July, that year it comprised 1st Canadian Infantry Division, 1st Armoured Division, and 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (UK), a somewhat oversized brigade based on the second NZ echelon of troops (of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force) which had been diverted to the United Kingdom from Egypt.

[14] The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–45 writes:[15] The rest of the echelon spent their time training for their role in the defence of Britain.

General Freyberg had given the officers an inspiring survey of the military situation; the press and Mr Churchill warned everyone that each weekend was a potential crisis.

At this stage the battalions and detachments of reinforcements with the Second Echelon had been organised into 2 NZEF (UK), with a Force Headquarters and three groups.

[16] Later in the war it was notionally reactivated for deception purposes as a formation of the British Fourth Army as part of Operation Fortitude North, the threat to invade Norway at the time of the Normandy landings, with headquarters at Dundee.