Desert Mounted Corps commander Harry Chauvel, (front row second left) and corps staff[1]
Active
12 August 1917 – 7 June 1919
Country
British Empire France
Allegiance
British Empire
Type
Cavalry Yeomanry Mounted infantry Horse artillery
Role
Mounted warfare
Size
Army corps
Part of
Egyptian Expeditionary Force
Engagements
Sinai and Palestine Campaign
1917
Palestine
Battle of Beersheba Battle of Tel el Khuweilfe Battle of Hareira and Sheria Charge at Sheria Battle of Mughar Ridge Battle of Ayun Kara Battle of Jerusalem
1918
Jordan and Transjordan
Capture of Jericho Jordan Valley First Transjordan attack on Amman Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt
After reformation
Palestine, Transjordan and Syria
Battle of Megiddo Battle of Sharon Battle of Nazareth Battle of Haifa Capture of Afulah and Beisan Capture of Jenin Battle of Samakh Capture of Tiberias Third Transjordan attack Capture of Jisr ed Damieh Second Battle of Amman Capture of Damascus Charge at Irbid Battle of Jisr Benat Yakub Charge at Kaukab Charge at Kiswe Pursuit to Haritan Charge at Khan Ayash Battle of Aleppo Charge at Haritan
Commanders
Notable commanders
Harry Chauvel
Military unit
v
t
e
Sinai and Palestine Campaign
Sinai
Suez Canal
El Tor
Jifjafa
Katia
Romani
Bir el Abd
Magdhaba
Nekhl
Bir el Hassana
Southern Palestine
Rafa
1st Gaza
2nd Gaza
1st Southern Palestine
Hafir el Auja railway
Buggar Ridge
2nd Southern Palestine
Beersheba
Khuweilfe
3rd Gaza
Hareira & Sheria
Wadi el Hesi
Huj
Mughar Ridge
Junction Station
Ayun Kara
Jerusalem
Nebi Samwil
Jaffa
El Burj
Judean Hills
Tell 'Asur
Berukin & 1st Arara
Transjordan
Jericho
Jordan Valley
1st Transjordan
Hijla
1st Amman
2nd Transjordan
Abu Tellul
3rd Transjordan
Jisr ed Damieh
2nd Amman
Northern Palestine
Arsuf
Megiddo
Sharon
Tulkarm
Tabsor
2nd Arara
Nazareth
Afulah & Beisan
Jenin
Haifa
Samakh
Tiberias
Nablus
Syria
Damascus
Irbid
Jisr Benat Yakub
Kaukab
Kiswe
Khan Ayash
Northern Syria
Aleppo
Haritan
Arab Revolt
Mecca
Medina
Taif
Yanbu
Aqaba
Wadi Musa
The Desert Mounted Corps was an army corps of the British Army during the First World War, of three mounted divisions renamed in August 1917 by General Edmund Allenby, from Desert Column. These divisions which served in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign had been formed by Australian light horse, British yeomanry, and New Zealand mounted rifles brigades, supported by horse artillery, infantry and support troops. They were later joined by Indian cavalry and a small French cavalry detachment.
The Desert Mounted Corps (DMC) comprised the ANZAC Mounted Division, the Australian Mounted Division and the Yeomanry Mounted Division, with infantry formations attached when required, as had Desert Column. In the first month of its existence, the corps continued training and patrolling no man's land preparing for manoeuvre warfare. Their first operations would be the attack, along with the XX Corps of the Battle of Beersheba. Having captured their objective they were involved in a series of battles, before the old Gaza to Beersheba line was finally broken a week later. During the pursuit they fought two Turkish armies at the Battle of Mughar Ridge before advancing to capture Jerusalem during the Battle of Jerusalem in December 1917.[a]
In 1918, units of Desert Mounted Corps participated in the Capture of Jericho in February, the First Transjordan attack on Amman in March and the Second Transjordan attack on Shunet Nimrin and Es Salt in April, while occupying the Jordan Valley during the summer. As a result of the German spring offensive on the Western Front the corps went through a reorganisation, when the majority of the British yeomanry regiments were dismounted and sent as infantry reinforcements to France. The Yeomanry Mounted Division and the 5th Mounted Brigade were disbanded, to be replaced by Indian cavalry regiments, which formed the 4th Cavalry Division and 5th Cavalry Division. They arrived in the Jordan Valley in May to join the corps and in September with four divisions, participated in the major offensive operations of the Battle of Sharon, a section of the Battle of Megiddo. The subsequent pursuit to Damascus followed by the Pursuit to Haritan, advances of almost 600 miles (970 km) into Turkish territory, resulted in the capture of 107,000 prisoners and over 500 pieces of artillery. At the end of October, the Armistice of Mudros ended the war against the Ottoman Empire and the corps became an occupation force in Syria. By March 1919 units were patrolling Egypt during the Egyptian Revolution of 1919. The Desert Mounted Corps was disbanded in June 1919.
^"Informal group portrait of headquarters staff of the Desert Mounted Corps". Australian War Memorial. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
^Fewster, Basarin, Basarin, 2003, pp.xi–xii
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