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The Haldane reforms of 1907 created what was to become the BEF to be deployed to France ready for action of 6 infantry divisions and a heavy (4 brigade) cavalry division reporting directly to GHQ of the BEF.
These units were pretty well equipped by the standards of the day, with a regiment of field howitzers like Germans divisions and also a battery of heavy (5"-60pdr) field guns.

However upon mobilisation in August 1914 it was decided to form the 4 divisions into 2 corps to conform to French practice, but had to improvise the 2 corps HQ. In 1915 the British then culled out the machinegun sections from battalions and made them into MG companies at brigade level much like German practice with MG Coys in each regiment and culled out the single heavy howitzer batteries in Divisions and placed them under Army command much like Continental practice.

WI these changes were made before the war; the Corps were formed at about the same time as the divisions and the heavy howitzers were placed under Corps command and Royal Garrison Artillery having a direct line to the Corps? Would well-established, practiced Corps HQs perform much better that IOTL, would having their own howitzers and perhaps other Corps troops make much difference at Mons and Le Cateau?

What about GHQ having control of a few regiments of 6" howitzers manned by senior RGA officers from the very start, what would that do?

The machinegun thing might be a bit hard to quantify, but it must be an improvement given war experience drove the change.

Are there other organisational changes that could have been made prior to WW1 that would be beneficial?
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