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The division was constantly engaged, resisting strongly, but being gradually forced back. On the 28th it retired to the line of the St. Quentin Canal. On October 8, a surprise attack threw it back to Fontaine Notre Dame. Here it resisted fiercely. It was relieved about October 10 and went to the Guise area.

In this fighting the division lost 2,000 men. Its combatant strength was estimated to be about 1,200 men on October 7.

3. On October 14 the division reenforced the line east of Bernot and fought for three days. It returned to the Guise area, but intervened again west of Pleine-Selve on October 25. Until the armistice it was engaged south of Guise, east of La Capelle, and at Liessies.

VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.

The division was rated as third class. After August it was almost constantly in line in the St. Quentin area until its effectives were almost completely consumed.

83d Division.

COMPOSITION.

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1915 │ 1916 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │Doussin (1 │1 Garrison │165. │329. │ Garrison │ Rgt. (329). │ │ │ Brig., now │ │ │ │ 165). │ │ │ │Rudiger (2 │2 Garrison │ │330. │ Garrison │ Rgt. (330). │ │ │ Brig., now │ │ │ │ 166). │ │ │ │ │ │166. │331. │ │3 Garrison │ │332. │ │ Rgt. (331). │ │ │ │4 Garrison │ │ │ │ Rgt. (332). │ │ ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │ │2 Sqn. 92 Ldw. Cav. Rgt. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │Von Conta F. A. Rgt. (Ers. │249 F. A. Rgt. │ Abt. 61 F. A. Rgt.). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│ │83 T. M. Co. Liaisons. │ │ │ │83 Pont. Engs. │ │83 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │ │ Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │165. │329. │165. │255 Res. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │330. │ │4 Ldw. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │331. │ │346. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │83 Heavy Cav. Rgt. │3 Sqn. 11 Drag. Rgt. │2 Sqn. 92 Ldw. Cav. Rgt. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │Art. Command: │80 Art. Command: │ │ │ 249 F. A. Rgt. │ 249 F. A. Rgt. │ │ 3 Abt. 28 Ft. A. Rgt. (7th │ │ to 9th Btries.). │ │ 796 Light Am. Col. │ │ 798 Light Am. Col. │ │ 951 Light Am. Col. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│83 Pion. Btn.: │83 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ 1 Ldw. Co. 1 Pions. │ 1 Ldw. Co. 1 C. Dist. Pions. │ 246 Pion. Co. │ 1 Ldw. Co. 5 C. Dist. Pions. │ 83 T. M. Co. │ 123 Searchlight Section. │ 316 Searchlight Section. │83 Signal Command: │ 83 Tel. Detch. │ 83 Tel. Detch. │ │ 185 Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │83 Ambulance Co. │83 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │49 Field Hospital. │49 Field Hospital. │165 Field Hospital. │165 Field Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │83 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │M. T. Col. │581 M. T. Col. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │26 Bav. Ft. A. Btn. (1, 2, │ │ and 4 Btries.). │ │3 Abt. 5 Ft. A. Rgt. (6, 10, │ │ and 11 Btries.). │ │1 Art. Observation Section. │ │121 Sound Ranging Section. │ │8 Bav. Pion. Co. │ │4 Co. 10 Labor Btn. │ │2 Co. 35 Labor Btn. │ │77 Balloon Sqn. │ │(Elements attached, Aug. 14, │ │ 1918. German document.) ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

HISTORY.

(329th and 331st Regiment: 5th Corps District—Posen and Lower Silesia. 330th Regiment: 7th Corps District—Westphalia.)

1915.

The 83d Division was formed out of the garrison of defense of Posen which went under the name of Posen Corps. It was engaged on the Eastern Front from the beginning of the war.

The Posen Corps composed of depot battalions of active regiments, of reserve, of Landwehr, and even battalions of Landsturm, was divided into four brigades. Its strength was distributed into two divisions, the 83d and 84th, in June, 1915, and the battalions, which were at first formed into regiments bearing the names of the respective commanders of these regiments, were numbered 329 to 336, inclusive.

RUSSIA-POLAND.

1. From March to June, with the Posen Corps, the regiments which were to form the 83d Reserve Division took part in the Poland campaign to the north of Pilica and on the Bzura.

VICHNEV.

2. The 83d Division took part in the summer offensive against the Russians. Leaving the Ostrolenka region (July) it advanced by way of Grodno, Lipnichki (northeast of Lida, September) up to Vichnev (October), where it established its position.

1916.

VICHNEV.

1. The division stayed in the Vichnev sector during the entire year 1916 and until the month of April, 1917.

1917.

1. About the middle of April, 1917, the 83d Division was transferred from Vichnev to Baranovitchi, where it was held some time as a reserve and then to the northeast of Halicz, from which place it was transported by automobiles to the Stanislau region (June 5).

GALICIA.

2. At the beginning of July it was attacked by the Russians to the west of Stanislau (serious losses on July 9, particularly 690 prisoners). It afterwards took part in the German counteroffensive and advanced through the Dniester valley up to the west of Chotin (beginning of August.)

3. Relieved about the middle of September, the 83d Reserve Division was sent to rest in the Czernovitz region and then put back in line to the northeast of Bojan (October-November).

4. At the end of November the division left the Bojan sector and became a reserve for the Bothmer Army in back of the Czernovitz front. Before leaving for the Western Front the 4th Division had sent it men from Alsace and Lorraine (middle of December when the 36th Division had left the former some months before.)

RECRUITING.

Recruiting was mostly from Posen and Silesia with some support from Westphalia and the Rhine Province. Coming from Galicia as late as March, 1918, the 83d Division could not come without the soldiers coming from Alsace and Lorraine which other divisions which had left before had transferred to it.

VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.

Mediocre division, formed to the extent of one third by older men. Appears for the first time on the Western Front in April, 1918.

1918.

YPRES.

1. The division held the sector north of Ypres until July 18. After its relief it rested a few days in Roulers and then entrained at Lichterfelde for the Douai area. On August 16 it traveled via Cambrai and detrained near Ruyanlcourt. Here it spent the night, moving up to Flers the next morning. The division came into line on the 19th, when it relieved the 3d Naval Division north of Albert.

SCARPE-SOMME.

2. It was engaged at Thiepval, Bazentin le Grand, Courcelette, and Martinpuich until about April 26, when it was withdrawn.

3. On September 10, the division came into line in Lorraine with an entirely new composition. It then included the 255th Reserve Regiment, the 346th Regiment, and the 4th Landwehr Regiment grouped under the brigade and divisional staff of the 83d Division. The 329th Regiment, one of the former regiments of the division, was sent to Esthonia on September 5. It had lost 700 casualties in the August fighting. The reconstructed division held the Embermenil sector until the armistice.

VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.

The division was rated as fourth class. After its transfer to the Western Front, the division held a quiet sector except for a short time on the Scarpe in August.

84th Division.

COMPOSITION.

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1915 │ 1916 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │Hoffmann, │5 Garrison │168. │334. │ afterward │ Rgt. (333). │ │ │ Schutze (3 │ │ │ │ Garrison │ │ │ │ Brig.) │ │ │ │ (167). │ │ │ │Reisswitz (4 │  │ │335. │ Garrison │ │ │ │ Brig.) │ │ │ │ (168). │ │ │ │ │6 Garrison │ │336. │ │ Rgt. (334). │ │ │ │7 Garrison │ │ │ │ Rgt. (335). │ │ │ │Schutze, │ │ │ │ afterwards │ │ │ │ Kroebel, │ │ │ │ Rgt. (8 │ │ │ │ Garrison │ │ │ │ Rgt. “336”).│ │ ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │84 Cav. Rgt. (Ers. Sqns. 8 │84 Cav. Rgt. │ Drag., 3 Uhlan Rgts., and 2│ │ and 4 Landst. Sqn. 5 C. │ │ Dist.). │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │ │248 F. A. Rgt. │ │847 F. A. Btry. │ │854 F. A. Btry. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│ │272 Pion. Co. Liaisons. │ │ │ │1 Ldw. Pion. Co. (12 C. │ │ Dist.). │ │3 Landst. Pion. Co. (13 C. │ │ Dist.). │ │84 T. M. Co. │ │84 Pont. Engs. │ │84 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │ │ Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transports. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │1 Haguenau Landst. Inf. Btn. │ │ (21 C. Dist. Btn. No. 12). │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │168. │335. │163. │335. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │336. │ │336. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │423. │ │423. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │1 Sqn. 84 Cav. (Heavy) Rgt. │3 Sqn. 16 Drag. Rgt. │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │Art. Command: │54 Art. Command: │ 248 F. A. Rgt. │ 248 F. A. Rgt. │ 903 F. A. Btry. │ 3 Abt. 25 Ft. A. Rgt. (8 to │ │ 10th Btries.). │ │ 1007 Light Am. Col. │ │ 1008 Light Am. Col. │ │ 1009 Light Am. Col. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│(?) Pion. Btn.: │84 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ 272 Pion. Co. │ 2 Res. Co. 1 Pions. │ │ │ 1 Ldw. Co. 12 Pions. │ 272 Pion. Co. │ │ │ 84 T. M. Co. │ 84 T. M. Co. │ 347 Searchlight Section. │ 52 Searchlight Section. │ 84 Tel. Detch. │84 Signal Command: │ │ 84 Tel. Detch. │ │ 166 Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │84 (?) Ambulance Co. │84 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │21 Ldw. Field Hospital. │77 Field Hospital. │156 Field Hospital. │21 Ldw. Field Hospital. │ │156 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transports. │1008 M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │1 Anklam, Landst. Inf. Btn. │ │ (2 C. Dist. Btn. No. 1). │ │7 Posen Landst. Btn. (5 C. │ │ Dist. Btn. No. 7). │ │1 Glogau Landst. Btn. (5 C. │ │ Dist. Btn. No. 15). │ │1 Cottbus Landst. Ers. Btn. │ │ (3 C. Dist. Btn. No. 23). │ │2 Dresden Landst. Inf. Btn. │ │ (12 C. Dist. Btn. No. 2). │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

HISTORY.

(335th and 336th Regiments: 5th Corps District—Posen. 423d Regiment: 5th Corps District—Lower Silesia.)

1915.

The 84th Division with the 83d Division formed the Posen Corps and was engaged on the Eastern Front from the beginning of the war. (See 83d Division.) It was organized in June, 1915.

RUSSIA.

1. After having fought in Poland to the north of Pilica (February to June, 1915) the elements of the 84th Division operated in the region of Bleudow.

2. The 84th Division took part in the offensive against the Russians. It advanced through the region of Bug (Aug. 17), through the southeast of Bielsk (end of August) north of Slonim (September, battle from the 13th to the 18th), up to the south of Novogrodek (Sept. 22). The front having become stationary, the division took a position in the vicinity of Deliatitchi (north of the Niemen). In December it gave up the 333d Regiment of Infantry to the 89th Division, then recently organized.

1916.

RUSSIA.

1. The 84th Division stayed in the sector in the vicinity of the Niemen (Liubtcha, Deliatitchi) during the entire year 1916.

2. From July to October the 334th and 335th Regiments were detached as reenforcements between Goroditche and Baranovitchi to meet the Russian offensive.

1917.

1. In 1917 the division still occupied the same sectors along the Niemen (Deliatitchi, Negnevitchi) until its departure for the Western Front (December).

2. About the month of June the 334th Infantry was transferred to the 94th Division and replaced by the 423d Infantry, to which the former transferred some of its men.

In December the division absorbed another lot of men from the 334th Infantry and some from the Landsturm Battalion V. 15. Its strength had since November included some young men of the class of 1919.

3. At the end of December the division was transported to France. The 3d Battalion of the 423d Regiment entrained at Novogrodek on December 31. (Itinerary: Varsovie-Leipzig-Frankfort on the Main-Thionville) and detrained at Arrancy (south of Longuyon) on January 7. The 2d Battalion of the 336th Regiment entrained on December 28 and detrained at Landres on January 3.

RECRUITING.

The division was for the most part recruited from the 5th and the 7th Corps Districts. This was but slightly changed by the incorporation of the men of the Landsturm Battalion V. 15 which consisted mostly of soldiers from Brandenburg and of the addition of those belonging to the class of 1919 which came from the 4th Corps District.

VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.

The 84th Division had been on the Eastern front since 1914. Its offensive value was mediocre.

On the Russian front it began to fraternize at the end of December. The Germans were only allowed to do so in the presence of their officers. In November and about December 20 the men in the division who were over 40 years of age were transferred into Landsturm battalions or into regiments staying in Russia, and replaced by young men nearly all belonging to the class of 1919 (250 to the 84th Division in November).

1918.

MONTDIDIER-NOYON.

1. The division was relieved by the 53d Reserve Division about May 1. It moved west and on May 25 relieved the 3d Bavarian Division in the Lassigny sector. It was taken out in early June and rested until the 9th, when it returned to attack at Courcelles. It again retired on June 20 and rested until July 2.

LASSIGNY.

2. On that date it was in line southeast of Belloy, where it was engaged until mid-July. It rested near Antheuil until August 12, when it reenforced the battle front south of Thiescourt. Then it was engaged until about August 22.

OISE.

3. One regiment—the 423d—entered line on the Oise on August 22 and by September 4 all the division was in line near Quierzy. It was withdrawn on September 15.

4. On September 30 the division entered line at Trouquoy and south of Sequehart. In the fighting in the first week of October the elements of the division were badly mixed with other divisions. They were taken out about October 9 and re-formed.

5. It was reengaged on October 27 in the vicinity of Sissonne and fought until the armistice. The last identification was east of Bucy les Pierrepont on November 6.

VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.

The division was rated as fourth class. It was a very mediocre unit, composed largely of Landsturm elements and of young recruits. It was decimated by the fighting in the fall and its morale became very bad. A contributing factor was a draft of 300 prisoners returned from Russia.

85th Landwehr Division.

COMPOSITION.

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1915 │ 1916 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │69 Ldw. │17 Ldw. │169 Ldw. │61 Ldw. │ │21 Ldw. │ │99 Ldw. │ │61 Ldw. │170 Ldw. │17 Ldw. │ │99 Ldw. │ │21 Ldw. ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │85 Cav. Rgt. (4 Sqns.). │85 Cav. Rgt. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │Ers. Ants. of the 36, 71, and│85 F. A. Rgt. │ 73 F. A. Rgts. │ │ │93 F. A. Rgt. │ │844 F. A. Btry. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│ │ Liaisons. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │ │ Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Odd units. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │Zittau Landst. Inf. Btn. (12 │ │ C. Dist. No. 7). │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │170 Ldw. │17 Ldw. │169 Ldw. │17 Ldw. │ │21 Ldw. │ │21 Ldw. │ │99 Ldw. │ │99 Ldw. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │5 Sqn. 6 Cuirassier Rgt. │5 Sqn. 6 Cuir. Rgt. │(?) Sqn. 85 Cav. Rgt. │ │Ers. Sqn. 12 Dragoon Rgt. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │(?) │275 Field Artillery Rgt. │ │ │844 F. A. Btry. │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│(485) Pion. Btn.: │1 Ldst. Pion. 4 Army Corps. Liaisons. │ │ │ 2 Ers. Co. 26 Pions. │585 Tel. Detch. │ 385 T. M. Co. │ │ 22 Heavy Field Searchlight │ │ Section. │ │ Tel. Detch. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │85 Ambulance Co. │320 Field Hospital. Veterinary.│ │ │Field Hospital. │181 Vet. Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Odd units. │85 Cyclist Co. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │Zittau Landst. Inf. Btn. (12 │ │ C. Dist. Btn. No. 7). │ │Osterode Landst. Inf. Btn. │ │ (20 C. Dist. Inf. Btn. No. │ │ 8). │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

HISTORY.

(17th Landwehr: 21st Corps District—Lorraine. 21st Landwehr: 17th Corps District—Western Prussia. 99th Landwehr: 15th Corps District—Alsace.)

1915.

The 85th Landwehr Division is the old Breugel Division, which at the beginning of the war, together with the Woernitz Division (86th Division), formed the Graudenz Corps (also known as the Zastrow Corps and in 1915 the 17th Reserve Corps), and operated on the Eastern Front.

RUSSIA.

1. Two of the regiments, the 17th Landwehr and the 99th Landwehr, went to the Eastern Front, the former at the beginning of the war and the latter in the spring of 1915.

POLAND.

1. Until July, 1915, the Breugel Division was engaged in Poland (Prasnysz, region of Mlawa).

2. In July it took part in the offensive against the Russians, advancing to the west of Pultusk (middle of July); besieged Novo-Georgievsk; was on the Bug (beginning of August) and near Bielsk (end of August). The 61st Landwehr entered Warsaw on August 22 and remained there during the month of September.

3. With the stabilization of the front the former Breugel, now the 85th Landwehr Division occupied the Vichnev sector (to the south of Krevo) on the Little Berezina.

1916.

VICHNEV.

1. The 85th Landwehr Division remained on the Vichnev-Deliatitchi front for more than two years (September, 1915—October, 1917). In September, 1917, it gave up the 61st Landwehr Regiment to the 217th Division, then newly organized.

1917.

VICHNEV.

1. About the 15th of October, 1917, the 85th Landwehr Division moved to the north. It left the Niemen region to go to the south of Dvinsk, near the lake of Drisviaty. In December it extended its sector toward the south (Vidzy).

RECRUITING.

The 21st Landwehr was recruited in the 17th Corps District, or more generally in western Prussia. There were numerous soldiers from Alsace and Lorraine in the division. Frequent desertions on the part of the men from Lorraine and men from the mining region of the Sarre in 1914 on the French front led to the decision which sent the 17th Landwehr to Russia.

VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.

Remained a long while in quiet sectors on the Russian front. The 85th Landwehr Division had but a very mediocre combat value.

1918.

COURLAND.

1. Toward the end of January the men of the 85th Landwehr Division were still fraternizing in the Vidzy region. The 17th Landwehr Regiment was in the vicinity of Jakobstadt in April and the 99th Landwehr Regiment

## participated at this time in the operations in Finland.

UKRAINE.

2. Early in May the whole division, with the exception of some elements (14th Jaeger Battalion, 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment, 229th Mounted Machine Gun Co.), moved to the Polotsk region. Regiments of the division were identified in this area early in September. There was a rumor that the division had been transferred to the Western Front early in October, but this seems unlikely.

VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.

The division was rated as fourth class.

86th Division.

COMPOSITION.

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1915 │ 1916 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │Grossman │Reinhard │171. │341. │ (171). │ (341). │ │ │ │Krause (342). │ │342. │Windhetm │Hoebel (343). │172. │343. │ (172). │ │ │ │ │Gropp (344). │ │344. ─────────────┼──────────────┴──────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │86 Cav. Regt. (Ers. Sqns. 11 │ │ Drag., 4 Horse Jag. Rgts., │ │ 1 Ldw. Sqn. 17 C. Dist. │ │ Cav., and Res. Ers. Sqn. 17│ │ C. Dist. Cav.) │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │86 F. A. Rgt. │86 F. A. Rgt. │ │220 F. A. Rgt. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│ │86 T. M. Co. Liaisons. │ │ │ │86 Pont. Engs. │ │86 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │ │ Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Odd units. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │110 Labor Btn. Briesen │ │ Landst. Inf. Btn. (17 C. │ │ Dist. No. 1). │ │Neufahrwasser Landst. Inf. │ │ Btn. (17 C. Dist. No. 8). ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

─────────────┬─────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────────── │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼──────────────┬──────────────┼──────────────┬────────────── │ Brigade. │ Regiment. │ Brigade. │ Regiment. ─────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼──────────────┼────────────── Infantry. │172. │341. │172. │341. │ │ │ │ │ │343. │ │343. │ │344. │ │344. │ │ │ │ │ 4 Jag. Btn. │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼──────────────┴────────────── Cavalry. │3 Sqn. 7 Uhlan Rgt. │3 Sqn., 7 Uhlan Rgt. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Artillery. │Art. Command: │86 F. A. Rgt. │ 86 (?) F. A. Rgt. │404 F. Art. Btn. │ │971 Light Mun. Col. │ │973 Light Mun. Col. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Engineers and│Pion. Btn.: │86 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ 3 Ers. Co. 26 Pions. │ 3 Ers. 26th Pion. │ 2 Co. 34 Res. Pions. │ 3 Pion. Btn. No. 34. │ 86 T. M. Co. │ 19th Searchlight Section. │ 328 Searchlight Section. │86 Div. Signal Command: │ Tel. Detch. │ 86 Tel. Detch. │ │ 157 Div. Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Medical and │86 Ambulance Co. │86 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │81 Field Hospital. │81 and 129 Field Hospitals. │129 Field Hospital. │182 Vet. Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Transport. │797 M. T. Col. │583 M. T. Col. │971 M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Odd units. │86 Cyclist Co. │ ─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │2 Cologne Landst. Inf. Btn. │ │ (8 C. Dist. Btn. No. 15). │ │ │ │7 Munst. Landst. Inf. Btn. (7│ │ C. Dist. Btn. No. 69). │ ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────

HISTORY.

(341st Regiment: 20th Corps District—Eastern part of Western Prussia. 343d and 344th Regiments: 17th Corps District—Western Prussia.)

1914.