Order of battle of the First Battle of the Marne

The following units of the British, French[1] and German[2][3] Empires fought in the First Battle of the Marne from 5–12 September 1914 on the Western Front of World War I.

Comparative relevant military ranks
British Army French Army German Army
Captain Capitaine Hauptmann / Rittmeister[4]
Major Commandant Major
Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Oberstleutnant
Colonel Colonel Oberst
Brigadier-General Général de Brigade Generalmajor
Major-General Général de Division Generalleutnant
Lieutenant-General Général de Corps d’Armée General der Infanterie / der Kavallerie / der Artillerie
General Général d’Armée Generaloberst
Field Marshal Maréchal de France Feldmarschall

British Expeditionary Force
John French
  • Commander-in-Chief of the BEF - Field-Marshal Sir John French
  • Chief of Staff - Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Murray
  • Deputy Chief of Staff - Major-General Sir Henry Wilson
  • Adjutant-General - Major-General Sir Nevil Macready
  • Quartermaster-General - Major-General Sir William Robertson
  • Deputy Adjutant-General - Major-General E. R. C. Graham
  • Commander, Royal Artillery - Major-General W. F. L. Lindsay
  • Commander, Royal Engineers - Brigadier-General G. H. Fowke
  • Assistant Adjutant-General - Colonel A. E. J. Cavendish
  • Assistant Quartermaster-General - Colonel C. T. Dawkins
  • Operations Officer - Colonel G. M. Harper
  • Intelligence Officer - Colonel G. M. W. Macdonogh

I Corps
  • General Officer Commanding - Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig
  • Chief of Staff - Brigadier-General J. E. Gough
  • Commander, Royal Artillery - Brigadier-General H. S. Horne
  • Commander, Royal Engineers - Brigadier-General S. R. Rice
  • 1st Division - Major-General S. H. Lomax
    • 1st (Guards) Brigade - Brigadier-General F. I. Maxse
    • 2nd Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General E. S. Bulfin
      • 2nd The Royal Sussex Regiment
      • 1st The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
      • 1st The Northamptonshire Regiment
      • 2nd The King's Royal Rifle Corps
    • 3rd Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General H. J. S. Landon
      • 1st The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
      • 1st The South Wales Borderers
      • 1st The Gloucestershire Regiment
      • 2nd The Welch Regiment
    • Artillery - Brigadier-General N. D. Findlay
    • A Squadron, 15th (The King's) Hussars
    • 23rd Field Company, RE
    • 26th Field Company, RE
  • 2nd Division - Major-General C. C. Monro

II Corps
  • General Officer Commanding - Lieutenant-General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
  • Chief of Staff - Brigadier-General George Forestier-Walker
  • Commander, Royal Artillery - Brigadier-General A. H. Short
  • Commander, Royal Engineers - Brigadier-General A. E. Sandbach
  • 3rd Division - Major-General Hubert I. W. Hamilton
    • 7th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General F. W. N. McCracken
      • 3rd The Worcestershire Regiment
      • 2nd The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
      • 1st The Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
      • 2nd The Royal Irish Rifles
    • 8th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General B. J. C. Doran
      • 2nd The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
      • 2nd The Royal Irish Regiment
      • 4th The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
      • 1st The Gordon Highlanders
    • 9th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General F. C. Shaw
      • 1st The Northumberland Fusiliers
      • 4th The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
      • 1st The Lincolnshire Regiment
      • 1st The Royal Scots Fusiliers
    • Artillery - Brigadier-General F. D. V. Wing
    • C Squadron, 15th (The King's) Hussars
    • 56th Field Company, RE
    • 57th Field Company, RE
  • 5th Division - Major-General Sir Charles Fergusson
    • 13th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General G. J. Cuthbert
      • 2nd The King's Own Scottish Borderers
      • 2nd The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
      • 1st The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
      • 2nd The King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)
    • 14th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General S. P. Rolt
      • 2nd The Suffolk Regiment
      • 1st The East Surrey Regiment
      • 1st The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
      • 2nd The Manchester Regiment
    • 15th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General A. E. W. Count Gleichen
      • 1st The Norfolk Regiment
      • 1st The Bedfordshire Regiment
      • 1st The Cheshire Regiment
      • 1st The Dorsetshire Regiment
    • Artillery - Brigadier-General J. E. W. Headlam
    • A Squadron, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
    • 17th Field Company, RE
    • 59th Field Company, RE

III Corps
  • General Officer Commanding - Major-General W. P. Pulteney
  • Chief of Staff - Brigadier-General J. P. Du Cane
  • Commander, Royal Artillery - Brigadier-General E. J. Phipps-Hornby
  • Commander, Royal Engineers - Brigadier-General F. M. Glubb
  • 4th Division - Major-General T. D'O. Snow
    • 10th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General J. A. L. Haldane
      • 1st The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
      • 2nd Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
      • 1st Princess Victoria's (Royal Irish Fusiliers)
      • 2nd The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
    • 11th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General A. G. Hunter-Weston
      • 1st Prince Albert's (Somerset Light Infantry)
      • 1st The East Lancashire Regiment
      • 1st The Hampshire Regiment
      • 1st The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
    • 12th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General H. F. M. Wilson
      • 1st King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
      • 2nd The Lancashire Fusiliers
      • 2nd The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
      • 2nd The Essex Regiment
    • Artillery - Brigadier-General G. F. Milne
    • B Squadron, 19th (Queen Alexandra's Own Royal) Hussars
    • 7th Field Company, RE
    • 9th Field Company, RE
  • 19th Infantry Brigade - Major-General L. G. Drummond
    • 2nd The Royal Welch Fusiliers
    • 1st The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
    • 1st The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
    • 2nd Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

1st Cavalry Division

Army Troops

French Armies
Joseph Joffre

Fifth Army

I Corps

III Corps

X Corps
  • Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Gilbert Defforges
  • 19th Infantry Division - Général de Division Gaëtan Bonnier
  • 20th Infantry Division
  • 51st Reserve Division - Général de Division René Boutegourd
French 5th Army at the Battle of the Marne 28-29 August 1914[5]

XVIII Corps
  • Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Louis de Maud'huy
  • 35th Infantry Division - Général Charles Exelmans
  • 36th Infantry Division
  • 38th Infantry Division - Général de Division Paul J.H. Muteau

IV Reserve Division Group

Conneau Cavalry Corps

Sixth Army
  • Commanding General - Général d’Armée Maunoury
  • Military Governor of Paris - Général d’Armée Joseph Gallieni
  • Chief of Staff - Général Guillemin

IV Corps

VII Corps
  • Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Frederic E. Vautier
  • 14th Infantry Division - Général de Division Étienne de Villaret
  • 63rd Reserve Division - Général de Division Georges Gustave Lombard

V Reserve Division Group
  • Commanding General - Général de Division Henri J.A.B. de Lamaze
  • 55th Reserve Division - Général Loius Leguay
  • 56th Reserve Division - Général de Brigade Théodore de Dartein

VI Reserve Division Group

Cavalry Corps Sordet/Bridoux
  • Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée André Sordet
  • Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Marie E. Bridoux (assumed command on September 8)
  • 1st Cavalry Division
  • 3rd Cavalry Division
  • 5th Cavalry Division

45th Infantry Division

Ninth Army
  • Commanding General - Général d’Armée Ferdinand Foch
  • Chief of Staff - Lieutenant-Colonel Weygand

IX Corps
  • General Commanding - Général de Corps d’Armée Pierre Joseph Dubois
  • 17th Infantry Division - Général de Division Noël Jean-Baptiste Dumas
  • 18th Infantry Division - Général Justinien Lefèvre
  • Moroccan Division - Général de Division Georges Louis Humbert
  • 52nd Reserve Division - Général de Division Hyacinthe C.J. Coquet, Général de Brigade Jules A.W.L. Battesti (assumed command on September 6)

XI Corps

XXI Corps
  • General Commanding - Général de Corps d’Armée Émile E. Legrand-Girarde
  • 13th Infantry Division - Général de Brigade Louis H.A. Baquet
  • 43rd Infantry Division - Général de Division Pierre E. Lanquetot

9th Cavalry Division
  • Commanding Officer - Général Jean de l'Espée

42nd Infantry Division

German Armies
Helmuth von Moltke

First Army

II Corps

III Corps

IV Corps
  • Commanding General - General der Infanterie Friedrich Sixt von Arnim
  • Chief of Staff - Leo von Stocken
  • 7th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Johannes Riedel
  • 8th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Georg K.A. Hildebrandt

IX Corps

IV Reserve Corps

II Cavalry Corps

Second Army
  • Commanding General - Generaloberst Karl von Bülow
  • Chief of Staff - Generalleutnant Ernst Otto von Lauenstein
German Army at the Marne 28-29 August 1914[6]

Guards Corps

VII Corps

X Corps

X Reserve Corps

I Cavalry Corps

Third Army

XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps
  • Commanding General - General der Infanterie Karl d'Elsa
  • Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant von Eulitz
  • 23rd Infantry Division
    • 45th Brigade
      • 100th Life-Grenadiers
      • 101st Grenadiers
    • 46th Brigade
      • 108th Schützen
      • 182nd Infantry
    • 23rd Field Artillery Brigade
      • 12th Field Artillery
      • 48th Field Artillery
    • 20th Hussars
    • 1st Company, 12th Pioneer Btln.
  • 32nd Infantry Division
    • 63rd Brigade
      • 102nd Infantry
      • 103rd Infantry
      • 12th Jäger Btln.
    • 64th Brigade
      • 177th Infantry
      • 178th Infantry
    • 32nd Field Artillery Brigade
      • 28th Field Artillery
      • 64th Field Artillery
    • 18th Hussars
    • 2nd Company, 12th Pioneer Btln.
    • 3rd Company, 12th Pioneer Btln.
  • 1st Btln., 19th Field Artillery
  • 29th Aviation Detachment

XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Corps
  • Commanding General - General der Kavallerie Maximilian von Laffert
  • Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Frotscher
  • 24th Infantry Division
    • 47th Brigade
      • 139th Infantry
      • 179th Infantry
      • 13th Jäger Btln.
    • 48th Brigade
      • 106th Infantry
      • 107th Infantry
    • 24th Field Artillery Brigade
      • 76th Field Artillery
      • 77th Field Artillery
    • 18th Uhlans
    • 1st Company, 22nd Pioneer Btln.
  • 40th Infantry Division
    • 88th Brigade
      • 104th Infantry
      • 181st Infantry
    • 89th Brigade
      • 133rd Infantry
      • 134th Infantry
    • 40th Field Artillery Brigade
      • 32nd Field Artillery
      • 68th Field Artillery
    • 19th Hussars
    • 2nd Company, 22nd Pioneer Btln.
    • 3rd Company, 22nd Pioneer Btln.
  • 2nd Btln., 19th Field Artillery
  • 24th Aviation Detachment

XII (Royal Saxon) Reserve Corps
  • Commanding General - General der Artillerie Hans von Kirchbach
  • Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant von Koppenfels
  • 23rd Reserve Division
    • 45th Reserve Brigade
      • 100th Reserve Infantry
      • 101st Reserve Infantry
      • 12th Reserve Jäger Btln.
    • 46th Reserve Brigade
      • 102nd Reserve Infantry
      • 103rd Reserve Infantry
    • 23rd Reserve Field Artillery
    • Saxon Reserve Hussars
    • 4th Company, 12th Reserve Pioneer Btln.
  • 24th Reserve Division
    • 47th Reserve Brigade
      • 104th Reserve Infantry
      • 106th Reserve Infantry
      • 13th Reserve Jäger Btln.
    • 48th Reserve Brigade
      • 107th Reserve Infantry
      • 133rd Reserve Infantry
    • 24th Reserve Field Artillery
    • Saxon Reserve Uhlans
    • 1st Company, 12th Reserve Pioneer Btln.
    • 2nd Company, 12th Reserve Pioneer Btln.

Army Troops
  • 3rd (Mortar) Btln., 19th Field Artillery
  • 23rd Pioneers
  • 22nd Aviation Detachment
  • 47th Mixed Landwehr Brigade
    • 104th Landwehr Infantry
    • 106th Landwehr Infantry
    • 2nd Landwehr Cavalry Squadron
    • Landwehr Artillery Battery

See also

References
  1. "ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE FRENCH ARMY, AUGUST 1914". Orbat.com. 2001-08-12. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  2. "German Army Corps 1914". 2003. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  3. "The Prussian Machine - German Army 1914-18".
  4. for cavalry and aviation
  5. Nafziger, George. "French Forces Battle of the Marne August 28-29 1914" (PDF). U.S Army Combined Arms Research Library.
  6. Nafziger, George. "German Forces Battle of the Marne 28-29 August 1914" (PDF). U.S Army Combined Arms Research Library. Retrieved 13 January 2016.

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