Uniforms of the British Army, 1914, from a series of postcards of uniforms of the combatants in the 1914 European War.
Guerre Européenne 1914Armée AnglaiseDragon guardsScots greysHussardGendarme de campagneLancierOfficier du génieGénéralLife guardsVolontaireVolontaire AustralienVolontaireGrenadier guardsScots guardsColdstream guardsColstream guards (pet. tenue)Kings Royal RiflesRifles brigradeScottish RiflesCameron highlandersHighlanders (officier)Royal Scots fusiliersCorps ExpéditionnaireInfanterie anglaiseTroupes de l'IndeRégiment de Cippayes West India (officier)Déposé J.C 8-9European War 1914 British Army Dragoon guardsScots GreysHussarMounted PolicemanLancerEngineering OfficerGeneralLife GuardsVolunteerAustralian VolunteerVolunteerGrenadier GuardScots GuardColdstream GuardColstream Guards (service dress)Kings Royal RiflesRifle BrigadeScottish RiflesCameron HighlanderHighlanders (Officer)Royal Scots FusiliersExpeditionary CorpsEnglish InfantryIndian troopSepoy Regiment West India (Officer)Filed J.C 8-9Reverse:J'espere bien que cette carte plâira à sa petite majesté, elle a été achetée à son intention . . .I hope that this card will appeal to his little majesty, it was purchased for him. . .
Initial deployment to Belgium and France, the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), with colonial troops including the Indian Corps. The British army was nearly destroyed by the end of the Battle of Ypres.By early November, the Territorial Army, established as part of the Army reforms of 1906 and '07, tasked with guarding the United Kingdom itself, was making up for the casualties in the British Army. Sir John French wrote 'that without the assistance which the Territorial soldiers afforded between October, 1914, and June, 1915, it would have been impossible to hold the line in France and Belgium, or to prevent the enemy from reaching his goal, the Channel seaboard.Kitchener's Army next arrived, the volunteers who responded to Herbert Lord Kitchener's call of 1914. They entered the war at the Battle of Loos in late September, 1915.The British New Army went over the top, and suffered enormous casualties, in the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.The Army Service Corps supplied front line troops with food, fuel, weapons, and other supplies.
