Researching the men of the cavalry

Imperial war Museum photograph C3230, 4 September 1918. Canadian cavalry are shown passing through newly captured country near Cherisy.

This section aims at providing all the information you need to be able to recreate the story of a man who served with a regiment of the cavalry.

Introduction to the cavalry

How to find documentary evidence of a soldier’s service with the cavalry, see

Finding cavalry records

How to interpret records of a soldier of the cavalry, see

Understanding cavalry records

Numbering the men of the regular cavalry regiments

Understand the range, complexity and histories of cavalry units:

Cavalry Depots

Reserve Regiments of Cavalry

The Cavalry Regiments

Orders of Battle of Cavalry Divisions

What was a Cavalry Regiment?

How to trace the movements and locations of a unit of the cavalry, see

Tracking a cavalry regiment