At the end of the battle more than 3000 German soldiers and horses lay dead on the battlefield. The Belgians achieved this success with a casualty rate which was ten times lower than that of the Germans. The era of large mounted cavalry attacks was over on the Western front and the German cavalry units dismounted and fought together with the infantry units in the trenches. Of course, the horse still remained one of the most important logistic assets of  the German Army: patrol-riders, couriers and a large number of  horse pulled assets continued to be used.

On the Eastern front at the battle of Tannenberg in East-Prussia, the German cavalry was much more successful, especially under the famous field marshals Paul von Hindenburg and August von Mackensen and played a major role until the end of World War I.

After the war the Versailles Treaty prohibited the German Army from using modern war-material. Therefore, the cavalry corps remained an important service in the German Army  in a world in which horses disappeared more and more from daily life. In order to prepare the soldiers for "modern" warfare, the German Reichswehr showed a great deal of improvisation: for example, rocks were painted to represent enemy tanks and meal-bags were thrown down from balloons to simulate impacts of bombs. In 1934, Germany tried hard to modernise the Wehrmacht which up to this time still  fought with lances from horse back. Several cavalry regiments were turned into armoured units. However, German industry was not able to produce enough modern material in a such a short time and also the soldiers and the higher command had to be trained for this kind of warfare.