The 1st Cavalry Brigade of the

Imperial Japanese Army The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...

was originally formed November 3, 1901. It was assigned to

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in April 1933 as part of the IJA Cavalry Group. It was then assigned with the Cavalry Group to the Northern China Area Army in June 1938. Again with the Group it was assigned to the Mongolia Garrison Army in February 1939.

Organization

1st Cavalry Brigade * 13th Cavalry Regiment * 14th Cavalry Regiment * Brigade Mounted Artillery Regiment Later additions * Brigade Machinegun unit * Brigade Anti tank artillery squadron * Brigade Tank unit * Independent Infantry Battalion (motorized) * Independent Engineer Squadron (motorized) * 1st Mounted Artillery Regiment * 71st Cavalry Regiment

Commanders

* Yoshifuru Akiyama{{Cite book , url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203028049 , title=The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War , date=2006-11-23 , publisher=Routledge , isbn=978-1-134-20668-1 , editor-last=Kowner , editor-first=Rotem

References

Japanese World War II brigades Military units and formations established in 1901

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Commanders

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