The Defence of Antwerp

4 - 10 October 1914

Elements of British forces which took part in this engagement:

Royal Naval Division

IV Corps (Rawlinson): 7th and 3rd Cavalry Divisions landed at Zeebrugge with orders to go to the support of Antwerp, but by the time they arrived things were too late and instead the Corps sized and held important bridges and points in the Ghent area in order to facilitate the retreat of the Belgian Army westwards from Antwerp