314th Cavalry Regiment (United States)

314th Cavalry Regiment
Coat of Arms of the 314th Cavalry Regiment
Active	April–October 1918 1922–1942
Country	United States
Branch	United States Army
Type	Cavalry
Part of	64th Cavalry Division (1921–1942)
Garrison/HQ	Dayton, Ohio (1939–1941)
Motto(s)	"Unity and Speed"
Commanders
Notable commanders	Cornelius C. Smith
Insignia
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The 314th Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry unit of the United States Army during World War I and the interwar period. It was activated in early 1918 but broken up later that year to form new artillery units. The unit was recreated as a Kentucky Organized Reserve unit during the interwar period and was later transferred to Ohio. It was converted into a signal aircraft warning regiment after the United States entered World War II.

Shortly after the United States entered World War I, the regiment was constituted in the National Army on 18 May 1917 and organized on 6 April 1918 at Camp Owen Bierne, El Paso, Texas, commanded by Colonel Cornelius C. Smith. It was broken up on 16 October 1918 into the 62nd and 63rd Field Artillery Regiments and the 21st Trench Mortar Battery. All three artillery units were demobilized at Camp Jackson: the 21st Trench Mortar Battery on 2 January 1919, the 63rd Field Artillery on 17 January, and the 62nd Field Artillery on 19 January.

On 15 October 1921, the 62nd and 63rd Field Artillery and the 21st Trench Mortar Battery were reconstituted in the Organized Reserve as the 314th Cavalry Regiment, part of the 64th Cavalry Division in the Fifth Corps Area. The 314th was initiated (activated) in January 1922 with regimental headquarters and 2nd Squadron at Lexington, Kentucky, and 1st Squadron at Middletown, Kentucky. The regiment joined the division's 157th Cavalry Brigade. On 15 April 1925, the regimental headquarters was relocated to Cynthiana, Kentucky, the 1st Squadron to Lexington, and the 2nd Squadron to Richmond, Kentucky. It was reorganized as a three-squadron regiment on 1 July 1929. The entire 314th was moved to Lexington on 9 July 1931, to Columbus, Ohio on 5 April 1937, and to Dayton, Ohio, on 22 May 1939.