1st (Peshawar) Division
# 1st (Peshawar) Division

The 1st (Peshawar) Division was a Regular Division of the British Indian Army formed as a result of the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army in 1903. During World War I, the Division remained in India for local defense, but was mobilized for action on the North West Frontier on several occasions.

The Division was a part of the Northern Army, later called the Northern Command. In 1919, the Division was mobilized for operations in Afghanistan during the Third Afghan War. Typical of most Indian Army formations, it contained a mixture of British and Indian units; but, unlike British Divisions, it contained a mixture of cavalry and infantry components.

## Formation in 1914

### 1st (Risalpur) Cavalry Brigade

    13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers
    14th Murray's Jat Lancers
    1st Duke of York's Own Skinner's Horse
    Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides (Frontier Force) Lumsden's) Cavalry
    21st Lancers
    M Battery, Royal Horse Artillery
    1st Guides Infantry.

### 1st (Peshawar) Infantry Brigade

    2nd Bn, King's (Liverpool Regiment)
    1st Bn, Royal Sussex Regiment
    14th Sikhs
    21st Punjabis
    72nd Punjabis.

### 2nd (Nowshera) Infantry Brigade

    1st Bn, Durham Light Infantry
    24th Punjabis
    46th Punjabis
    82nd Punjabis
    112th Infantry

### Peshawar Brigade

Formed July 1918

    1st Bn, Yorkshire Regiment
    30th Lancers.

### Divisional Troops

    2/1st Guides Rifles
    38th Dogras
    51st Sikhs.
