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The following units of the British, French and German 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
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

1st Coldstream Guards

1st Scots Guards

1st The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

2nd The Royal Munster Fusiliers

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

XXV Brigade RFA

XXVI Brigade RFA

XXXIX Brigade RFA

XLIII (Howitzer) Brigade RFA

26th Heavy Battery, RGA

A Squadron, 15th (The King's) Hussars

23rd Field Company, RE

26th Field Company, RE

2nd Division - Major-General C. C. Monro

4th (Guards) Brigade - Brigadier-General Robert Scott-Kerr

2nd Grenadier Guards

2nd Coldstream Guards

3rd Coldstream Guards

1st Irish Guards

5th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General Richard Haking

2nd The Worcestershire Regiment

2nd The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

2nd The Highland Light Infantry

2nd The Connaught Rangers

6th Infantry Brigade - Brigadier-General R. H. Davies

1st The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

2nd The South Staffordshire Regiment

1st Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)

1st The King's Royal Rifle Corps

Artillery - Brigadier-General E. M. Perceval

XXXIV Brigade RFA

XXXVI Brigade RFA

XLI Brigade RFA

XLIV (Howitzer) Brigade RFA

35th Heavy Battery, RGA

B Squadron, 15th (The King's) Hussars

5th Field Company, RE

11th Field Company, RE

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

XXIII Brigade RFA

XL Brigade RFA

XLII Brigade RFA

XXX (Howitzer) Brigade RFA

48th Heavy Battery, RGA

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

XV Brigade RFA

XXVII Brigade RFA

XXVIII Brigade RFA

VIII (Howitzer) Brigade RFA

108th Heavy Battery, RGA

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

XIV Brigade RFA

XXIX Brigade RFA

XXXII Brigade RFA

XXXVII (Howitzer) Brigade RFA

31st Heavy Battery, RGA

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

Commanding Officer - Major-General Edmund Allenby

1st Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier-General C. J. Briggs

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards

11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars

2nd Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier-General H. de Lisle

4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards

9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers

18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars

3rd Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier-General Hubert Gough

4th (Queen's Own) Hussars

5th (Royal Irish) Lancers

16th (The Queen's) Lancers

4th Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier-General Hon. C. E. Bingham

Household Cavalry Composite Regiment

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiners)

3rd (King's Own) Hussars

Horse Artillery - Brigadier-General B. F. Drake

III Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery

VII Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery

1st Field Squadron, RE

Army Troops

1st The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

1st The Devonshire Regiment

A Squadron, North Irish Horse

B Squadron, North Irish Horse

B Squadron, South Irish Horse

5th Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier-General Sir Philip Chetwode

2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys)

12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers

20th Hussars

J Battery, RHA

4th Field Squadron, RE

Royal Garrison Artillery

No. 1 Siege Battery

No. 2 Siege Battery

No. 3 Siege Battery

No. 4 Siege Battery

No. 5 Siege Battery

No. 6 Siege Battery

Royal Flying Corps - Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson

2nd Aeroplane Squadron - Major C. J. Burke

3rd Aeroplane Squadron - Major John Salmond

4th Aeroplane Squadron - Major G. H. Rayleig

5th Aeroplane Squadron

6th Aeroplane Squadron - Major John Becke

French Armies

Joseph Joffre

Generalissimo: Général d’Armée Joseph Joffre

Fifth Army

Commanding General - Général d’Armée Louis Franchet d'Espèrey

I Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Henry Victor Deligny

1st Infantry Division - Général de Division Marie Alexandre Gallet

2nd Infantry Division - Général de Division Henry Victor Deligny, Colonel Noël Garnier-Duplessix (assumed command on 8 September)

III Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Emile H. Hache

5th Infantry Division - Général de Brigade Charles Mangin

6th Infantry Division - Général de Brigade Philippe Pétain

37th Infantry Division - Général de Division Louis Comby

X Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Gilbert Defforges

19th Infantry Division - Général de Division Henry Bailly

20th Infantry Division - Général de Division Martial Adolphe Rogerie

51st Reserve Division - Général de Division René Boutegourd

French 5th Army at the Battle of the Marne 28-29 August 1914

XVIII Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Louis de Maud'huy

35th Infantry Division - Général Francois Marjoulet

36th Infantry Division - Général Théophile Jouannic

38th Infantry Division - Général de Division Paul Muteau

IV Reserve Division Group

Commanding General - Général de Division Mardochée Valabrègue

53rd Infantry Division - Général de Division Georges Perruchon, Général Journée

69th Infantry Division - Général de Division Henri Le Gros

Conneau Cavalry Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Louis Conneau

4th Cavalry Division General Pierre Abonneau

8th Cavalry Division - Général de Brigade Albert Baratier

10th Cavalry Division - Général de Brigade Camille Barthélémy Grellet

Sixth Army

Commanding General - Général d’Armée Joseph Maunoury

Military Governor of Paris - Général d’Armée Joseph Gallieni

Chief of Staff - Général Guillemin

IV Corps

Commanding General - Général de Corps d’Armée Victor R. Boelle

7th Infantry Division - Général de Division Edgard de Trentinian

8th Infantry Division - Général de Division Raoul de Lartigue

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

61st Reserve Division - Généra Céleste Deprez

62nd Reserve Division - Général Marie F. Ganeval

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

Commanding Officer - Général Antoine M.B. Drude

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

General Commanding - Général de Corps d’Armée Joseph-Paul Eydoux

21st Infantry Division - Général de Division Rene Radiguet

22nd Infantry Division - Général de Division Joseph Maurice Pambet

60th Reserve Division - Général de Division Maurice Joppé

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

Commanding Officer - Général Paul François Grossetti

German Armies

Helmuth von Moltke

Chief of the Imperial German General Staff - Generaloberst Helmuth von Moltke

Quartermaster-General / Deputy Chief of Staff - General der Artillerie Hermann von Stein

Operations Officer - Oberst Gerhard Tappen

Political Officer - Oberst Wilhelm von Dommes

Intelligence Officer - Oberstleutnant Richard Hentsch

First Army

Commanding General - Generaloberst Alexander von Kluck

Chief of Staff - Generalmajor Hermann von Kuhl

Quartermaster-General - Oberst Walter von Bergmann

II Corps

Commanding General - General der Infantrie Alexander von Linsingen

Chief of Staff - Oberst Hans Freiherr von Hammerstein-Gesmold

3rd Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Ferdinand K. von Trossel

4th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Günther von Pannewitz

III Corps

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Ewald von Lochow

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Hans von Seeckt

5th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Georg Wichura

6th Infantry Division - Generalmajor Richard Herhudt von Rohden

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

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Ferdinand von Quast

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Franz Sydow

17th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Arnold von Bauer

18th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Max von Kluge

IV Reserve Corps

Commanding General - General der Artillerie Hans von Gronau

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Friedrich von der Heyde

7th Reserve Division - Generalleutnant Bogislav Graf von Schwerin

22nd Reserve Division - Generalleutnant Otto Riemann

II Cavalry Corps

Commanding General - General der Kavallerie Georg von der Marwitz

2nd Cavalry Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von Krane

4th Cavalry Division - Generalleutnant Otto von Garnier

9th Cavalry Division - Generalmajor Eberhard Graf von Schmettow

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

Guards Corps

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Karl von Plettenberg

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg

1st Guards Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Oskar von Hutier

2nd Guards Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Arnold von Winckler

VII Corps

Commanding General - General der Kavallerie Karl von Einem

Chief of Staff - Oberst Hans von Wolff

13th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Kurt von dem Borne

14th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Friedrich Fleck

X Corps

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Otto von Emmich

Chief of Staff - Oberst Gustav Freiherr von der Wenge Graf von Lambsdorff

19th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Max P.O. Hofmann

20th Infantry Division - Generalleutnant Alwin Schmundt

X Reserve Corps

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Johannes von Eben

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Max Hoffmann von Waldau

2nd Guards Reserve Division - Generalleutnant Richard Freiherr von Süsskind-Schwendi

19th Reserve Division - General der Infanterie Max von Bahrfeldt

I Cavalry Corps

Commanding General - Generalleutnant Manfred von Richthofen

Guards Cavalry Division - Generalleutnant Adolph von Storch

5th Cavalry Division - Generalleutnant Karl von Ilsemann

Third Army

Commanding General - Generaloberst Max Freiherr von Hausen

Chief of Staff - Generalmajor Ernst von Hoeppner

Quartermaster-General - Generalmajor von Leuthold

Chief Engineer - Generalmajor Franz Adams

XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps

Commanding General - General der Infanterie Karl d'Elsa

Chief of Staff - Oberstleutnant Hans 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

• British Expeditionary Force order of battle (1914)

Sources

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