Regiments of the Regular Army

1st (Royal) Dragoons
August 1914 : at Potchefstroom in South Africa. Recalled to England, arrived 19 September 1914.
Moved to Ludgershall and placed under command of 6th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.
8 October 1914 : landed at Ostende.

2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)
August 1914 : at York, part of 5th Cavalry Brigade. Moved to France.
6 September 1914 : Brigade placed under Gough's Command.
13 September 1914 : Gough's Command renamed as 2nd Cavalry Division.

6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
August 1914 : in Mhow in India, part of the Mhow Cavalry Brigade.
Moved with Brigade to France as part of 2nd Indian Cavalry Division, landed Marseilles at 14 December 1914.
September 1915 : Brigade transferred to 1st Indian Cavalry Division.
26 November 1916 : 1st Indian Cavalry Division renamed as 4th Cavalry Division.
10 March 1918 : Division broken up. Transferred to 7th Cavalry Brigade in 3rd Cavalry Division.

Regiments of the New Armies

6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons
Formed a Squadron at Enniskillen in November 1914 as cavalry for 36th (Ulster) Division. Landed in France with Division on 6 October 1915. Left Division and became X Corps Cavalry Regiment on 21 June 1916. Broken up in summer 1917, with troops being dismounted and posted as infantry to 9th Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Men who served with the Dragoons can be researched in exactly the same way as, for example, infantrymen.
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