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2. The division entrained near Marsal (southwest of Dieuze) on the 26th of March and, traveling via Thionville-Luxemburg-Namur, detrained at Cambrai two days later. It rested in the caserne here until the 31st, when it marched to Peronne, where it remained in the English barracks the 2d and 3d of April, when it marched via Guillaucourt to Moreuil (northwest of Montdidier). During the night of the 7th–8th it relieved the 14th Division west of Moreuil. It was relieved on May 14 by the 192d Division. It was reported near Quesnoy the end of May and in the Le Cateau region early in June. Men of one of its regiments were reported as having been seen near Fere en Tardenois on the 3d of June. Again, parts of the division were reported near Caudry and Chateau Thierry during June.
MARNE.
3. On the 15th of July the division attacked west of Dormans. It crossed the Marne at Sailly, and was identified at Chapelle Monthod on the following day. In this fighting, the division suffered very heavy losses. The colonel and all the battalion commanders of the 3rd Jaeger Regiment were lost. It was withdrawn from line on the 21st.
4. During the night of the 26th–27th it came back into line near Roncheres (north of Dormans), its mission being to cover the retreat between Sergy and the Meuniere wood. It was withdrawn about the 3d of August and went to the Sedan area, where it rested for a fortnight.
5. During the night of the 22d–23d the division relieved the 22d Reserve Division northwest of Souain. In the heavy fighting that followed the division lost heavily. It was driven back to St. Etienne à Arnes, where it was relieved by the 195th Division on the 6th of October.
WASSIGNY.
6. The division then moved by easy stages, with frequent halts, via Rozoy-Montcornet-Origny-Escautpont-Le Nouvion-Beaurepaire-Barzy. During the night of October 22–23 it relieved the 5th Reserve Division near Oisy (east of Wassigny). It had not been withdrawn on the 11th of November.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The 200th was rated as a second-class division. Composed of Jaeger units, which are good fighters, it distinguished itself in the East and in Italy, and did well in the heavy fighting it was called upon to do on the Western Front, though not brilliantly. It was one of the best of the second-class divisions.
201st Division.
COMPOSITION.
─────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────────── │ 1916 │ 1917 │ 1918[32] ─────────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬───────── │Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment. ─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────── Infantry. │401. │401. │402. │401. │402. │401. │ │402. │ │402. │ │402. │402. │403. │ │403. │ │403. │ │404. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴───────── Cavalry. │ │4 Sqn. 4 Mounted │4 Sqn. 7 Drag. Rgt. │ │ Jag. Rgt. (?). │ │ │4 Sqn. 7 Drag. Rgt.│ │ │ (?). │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Artillery. │401 F. A. Abt. │Art. Command: │156 Art. Command: │402 F. A. Rgt. │ 401 F. A. Rgt. │ 402 F. A. Rgt. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Engineers and│401 Pion. Co. │(201) Pion. Btn.: │201 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ │ │ 385 Pion. Co. │ 385 Pion. Co. │ │ 401 Pion. Co. │ 401 Pion. Co. │ │ 181 T. M. Co. │ 358 Pion. Co. │ │ 50 Searchlight │ 2 Res. Co. 7 │ │ Section. │ Pions. │ │ 201 Tel. Detch. │ 50 Searchlight │ │ │ Section. │ │ │ 181 T. M. Co. │ │ │ 201 Tel. Detch. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Medical and │ │401 Ambulance Co. │401 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │401 Field Hospital.│401 Field Hospital. │ │402 Field Hospital.│402 Field Hospital. │ │66 Res. Field │66 Res. Field │ │ Hospital. │ Hospital. │ │Vet. Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transport. │ │863 M. T. Col. │611 M. T. Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Odd Units. │ │201 Cyclist Co. │201 Cyclist Co. ─────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────
Footnote 32:
Composition at the time of dissolution, November, 1918.
HISTORY.
(401st Regiment; 20th Corps District. 402d Regiment; 17th Corps District. 403d Regiment, 5th Corps District.)
1916.
The 201st is one of a series of divisions (numbered 201–204) created at the beginning of July, 1916, at the time of the Russian offensive conducted by Broussilov.
The 201st Division was formed out of recruits obtained from depots in the 5th, 17th and 20th Corps Districts. The Allenstein (401st) Regiment and the Danzig (402d) Regiment came from the Arys cantonment. The Glogau (403d) Regiment and the Posen (404th) came from the Warthe cantonment. Men taken from the front, convalescents from depots and a majority of young men from the class of 1917 made up the initial strength, which was 230 to 240 men per company.
RUSSIA.
1. As soon as formed the division occupied a sector on the Russian front (north of Baranovitchi) and stayed there from the beginning of July, 1916, to the beginning of December, 1917. During this period it only took part in two local actions (November, 1916, and November, 1917).
1917.
1. The 404th Infantry was taken away from this division in the beginning of 1917 and was joined to the divisions in the neighborhood (the 18th Landwehr Division and later the 4th Landwehr Division).
RUSSIA-FRANCE.
2. At the end of November, 1917, the 201st Division was relieved, reassembled at Baranovitchi, and entrained for the Western Front. (Itinerary: Baranovitchi-Brest-Litowsk-Warsaw-Chemnitz-Nuerenberg- Heilbronn-Rastatt-Sarreguemines.)
LORRAINE.
3. Beginning on December 15, elements of the 201st Division were put in line on the right bank of the Moselle opposite the Xon (northeast of Pont a Mousson).
RECRUITING.
The eastern Provinces of the Empire.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The 201st Division was composed to the extent of at least one-half of young and vigorous men. It had not been exhausted physically and had in no way lost its morale. Fraternization did not lessen its morale, but rather raised it on account of their belief that war could be terminated on the Western Front by an easy victory after peace was concluded with Russia.
Since its return from Russia its regiments had undergone an intensive training in trench and open warfare (February, 1918).
1918.
WOEVRE.
1. The division held the Apremont sector (southeast of St. Mihiel) until the end of May, when it was withdrawn. It rested and trained in the Woevre (Sponville) until June 9. It entrained at Mars la Tour and moved to Laon via Sedan and Liart. From there it marched to the Marne front through Vailly-Lannoy-Brecy.
BATTLE OF THE MARNE.
2. It was in line on the Chateau Thierry-Vaux sector from June 15 to the end of July. In the attacks of late July the division was hit hard. It was thrown back on Bezu-St. Germain, Beuvardes, Pere en Tardenois and relieved about July 30.
3. The division was moved to the Argonne in early August and about the 10th entered the Vacquois sector, which it held until the end of the month.
BATTLE OF THE SOMME.
4. It returned to the Somme area and on the night of September 6–7 relieved the 6th Cavalry Division northeast of Fins. Until the 28th it was engaged at Fins, Hendicourt, Gouzeaucourt, Villers, and Guislan. Losses were very heavy, including 2,200 prisoners.
CAMBRESIS.
5. After a week’s rest, the division reentered line south of Cambrai on October 5 and fought in this region until the 15th. Here it lost another 650 prisoners.
6. As a result of these extraordinary losses the division was dissolved at Maubeuge on October 22.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The division was rated as third class. Its losses were unusually heavy in prisoners whenever it was engaged in an active front. When it was dissolved its effectives numbered less than 1,000 rifles.
202d Division.
COMPOSITION.
─────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────────── │ 1916 │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬───────── │Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment. ─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────── Infantry. │ │405. │406. │408. │406. │97. │ │406. │ │411. │ │408. │ │407. │ │412. │ │411. │ │408. │ │ │ │412. ─────────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴───────── Cavalry. │ │ │3 Sqn. 2 Gd. Uhlan │ │ │ Rgt. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Artillery. │406 F. A. Rgt. │Art. Command: │66 Art. Command: │ │ 406 F. A. Rgt. │ 406 F. A. Rgt. │ │ │ 65 Ft. A. Btn. │ │ │ 867 Light Am. Col. │ │ │ 868 Light Am. Col. │ │ │ 1387 Light Am. │ │ │ Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Engineers and│ │(202) Pion. Btn.: │202 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ │ │ 383 Pion. Co. │ 383 Pion. Co. │ │ 402 Pion. Co. │ 402 Pion. Co. │ │ 182 T. M. Co. │ 98 Searchlight │ │ │ Section. │ │ 352 Searchlight │ 182 T. M. Co. │ │ Section. │ │ │ Tel. Detch. │202 Signal Command: │ │ │ 202 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ 91 Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Medical and │ │403 Ambulance Co. │403 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │403 Field Hospital.│403 Field Hospital. │ │404 Field Hospital.│404 Field Hospital. │ │302 Vet. Hospital. │302 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transport. │ │867 M. T. Col. │612 M. T. Col. │ │983 M. T. Col. │ │ │1387 M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Odd Units. │ │203 Cyclist Co. │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────
HISTORY.
(408th Regiment: Guard. 411th and 412th Regiments: 10th Corps District—Hanover.)
1916.
The 202d Division was formed in October, 1916, in the Lockstedt cantonment (9th Corps District, Altona). The 405th and the 406th were organized at the Lockstedt cantonment, the 407th at the Altengrabow cantonment, and the 408th comes from Guard depots.
RUSSIA.
1. In the course of October, 1916, the 202d Division was sent to the Russian front. Its organization was changed; it gave up the 405th to the 203d Division, the 406th and the 407th to the 205th Division. It was at this time composed of the 408th and two regiments received from the 203d Division, the 411th and the 412th (Hanover), which were formed at the Munster cantonment as “coast-defense regiments.”
COURLAND.
2. In December, 1916, the 202d Division was identified in the region of Riga.
1917.
1. In March, 1917, and until the end of August, 1917, the 202d Division occupied in Courland a sector in the vicinity of Toukkoum.
RIGA.
2. In the middle of September it was at the east of Riga. It was also identified at Riga on October 29.
3. In November the 202d Division was entrained for the Western Front. (Itinerary: Riga-Mitau-Insterburg-Koenigsberg-Thorn (408th)- Schneidemuehl-Posen-Leipzig-Halle-Frankfort on the Main-Sarrebrueck- Sarreguemines.) It detrained at Dieuze on November 20.
LORRAINE.
4. The division stayed in the rear of the front in the vicinity of Dieuze until the middle of January, 1918 (six weeks’ training).
RECRUITING.
The 408th Regiment was built up out of depots of the Guard and was recruited from all sections of Prussia. The 411th and 412th were theoretically from Hanover, with some recruits furnished by the 9th Corps District.
1918.
1. The division held the Lorraine sector until May 19, when it was relieved by the 3d Guard Division. It entrained near Moyenvic on May 19 and traveled via Metz-Spincourt-Longuyon-Sedan-Charleville-Marle to Flavy le Martel, where it detrained on May 21.
OISE.
2. On the night of May 22–23 it relieved the 11th Division west of Noyon. It was in line when the attack of June was made and advanced by Orval as far as Bethencourt. Here it remained in sector until about July 10, when it exchanged sectors with the 105th Division at Autreches. In this area it was struck by the Allied attack in mid-August and forced back on Audignicourt. The losses were very heavy, including 2,000 prisoners. It was relieved on August 27.
3. The division was railed to the vicinity of Vouziers after its relief in line. While resting at Sugny (Sept. 2–12) it was re-formed. The 412th Regiment was dissolved and its effectives distributed between the 408th and 411th Regiments. The 97th Regiment, from the dissolved 108th Division, replaced the 412th Regiment in the division.
4. It was engaged in Champagne near Maisons de Champagne from September 12 to 24. After that it was in close support of the 42d Division until the 27th, when it reentered line at Fontaine les Dormois. Until October 10 the division saw heavy fighting about Meuse and Challerange. It lost very heavily, including more than 800 prisoners.
5. The division rested from October 11 to 21. It was reengaged southeast of Vouziers (near Falaise) on the 21st, and after the 1st of November retreated by way of Longwe (2d), Boult aux Bois (34d) to the Meuse (8th).
When it appeared opposite the United States front on November 3, the division had been completely shattered. The 411th Regiment, for instance, had only three companies each with a rifle strength of 100 to 110 men.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The division was rated as third class. After the battle in eastern Champagne in late September the division could be regarded as destroyed.
203d Division.
COMPOSITION.
─────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────────── │ 1916 │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬───────── │Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment. ─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────── Infantry. │ │405. │405. │405. │405. │406. │ │409. │ │409. │ │409. │ │410. │ │410. │ │410. ─────────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴───────── Cavalry. │ │ │2 Sqn. Body Gd. │ │ │ Hus. Rgt. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Artillery. │ │203 Art. Command: │203 Art. Command: │ │ 406 F. A. Rgt. (2 │ 403 F. A. Rgt. │ │ Abts.). │ │ │ 403 F. A. Rgt. │ 2 Abt. 8 Res. Ft. │ │ │ A. Rgt. │ │ │ 778 Light Am. Col. │ │ │ 969 Light Am. Col. │ │ │ 977 Light Am. Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Engineers and│403 Pion. Co. │Pion. Btn.: │417 Pion. Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ │ │ 403 Pion. Co. │ 403 Pion. Co. │ │ 183 T. M. Co. │ 1 Ers. Co. 23 │ │ │ Pions. │ │ Tel. Detch. │ 20 Searchlight │ │ │ Section. │ │ │ 183 T. M. Co. │ │ │203 Signal Command: │ │ │ 203 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ 152 Wireless │ │ │ Detch. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Medical and │ │Ambulance Co. │402 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │405 Field Hospital.│405 Field Hospital. │ │Vet. Hospital. │406 Field Hospital. │ │ │303 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transport. │ │M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Odd units. │ │202 Cyclist Co. │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────
HISTORY.
(406th Regiment; 3d Corps District—Brandenburg. 409th and 410th Regiments; 9th Corps District—Schleswig—Holstein.)
1916.
The 203d Division was formed in Germany (September, 1916) and trained at the Lockstedt cantonment (a great many men from the class of 1917; also men previously wounded or sick and men taken from units at the front).
COURLAND.
1. On October 20 the 303d Division took over a sector on the Dvina (region north of Dvinsk.)
1917.
RIGA.
1. The division stayed on the Dvina until September, 1917. It
## participated in the offensive on the Riga and fought to the north of
Friedrichstadt.
2. After the taking of the town the 203d Division occupied a sector at Grenyn. Favored by calm conditions, it gave up men to the 75th Reserve Division, which was preparing to go to France. On December 8 it was billeted in Riga. About December 18 the 405th Regiment left the Division and was replaced by the 406th, coming from the 205th Division. In the meanwhile the division had brought up its strength by obtaining men from the 332d Infantry, which did not intend to leave until March, 1918 (with the 77th Reserve Division).
FRANCE.
3. At the end of December the 203d Division entrained for the Western Front. The 410th left Riga on the 26th. (Itinerary: Eydtkuhnen- Koenigsberg-Schneidemuehl-Berlin-Giessen-Coblenz-Treves-Thionville- Charleville.) It detrained at Tournes in the night of January 1–2, 1918.
RECRUITING.
The 406th recruits in Brandenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and, to a lesser extent, Hanover and the Hanseatic cities; furnished the recruits for the 409th and the 410th. The changes effected in the personnel during the last part of the stay on the Russian front left these units fairly heterogeneous.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The offensive value of the 203d Division in February, 1918, was only mediocre. Before leaving for the Western Front the 405th, which was to have remained in (hardly glorious) Russia, changed all its young men for the older men in the other two regiments. The 203d was said to have played a part in the Riga offensive. Gen. von Luettwitz commanding the division, was said to have been relieved of his command a short time thereafter.
1918.
BATTLE OF REIMS.
The division continued to hold the sector east of Reims (near Beine) until the German offensive of July 15. It attacked west of Prunay and penetrated as far as the Vesle. In front of Beaumont it lost very heavily. After the failure of the attack the division held the sector from Prunay to east of Les Marquises until August 30, when it was relieved by the 9th Division.
CHAMPAGNE.
2. It rested near Laon until October 1, when it was reengaged in Champagne between Orfeuil and Marvaux. In 8 days of severe fighting it lost very heavily and was obliged to retire from line.
3. The division was in army reserve until October 15, after which it was engaged southeast of Vouziers near Olizy and Falaise. On November 1 it was opposite the American front and took part in the final retreat of the Meuse at Mohon.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The division was rated as second class. By the end of hostilities the division was decimated and completely exhausted.
204th Division.
COMPOSITION.
─────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────────┬─────────────────── │ 1916 │ 1917 │ 1918 ─────────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬─────────┼─────────┬───────── │Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment.│Brigade. │Regiment. ─────────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼───────── Infantry. │407. │413. │407. │413. │407. │413. │ │414. │ │414. │ │414. │408. │415. │ │120 Res. │ │120 Res. │ │416. │ │ │ │ ─────────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴─────────┼─────────┴───────── Cavalry. │ │4 Sqn. 19 Uhlan │4 Sqn. 19 Uhlan │ │ Rgt. │ Rgt. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Artillery. │407 F. A. Abt. │Art. Command: │204 Art. Command: │408 F. A. Abt. │ 27 Res. F. A. Rgt.│ 27 Res. F. A. Rgt. │ │ │ 101 Ft. A. Btn. │ │ │ 1263 Light Am. │ │ │ Col. │ │ │ 1264 Light Am. │ │ │ Col. │ │ │ 1317 Light Am. │ │ │ Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Engineers and│404 Pion Co. │204 Pion Btn.: │204 Pion Btn.: Liaisons. │ │ │ │ │ 3 Res. Co. 13 │ 3 Res. Co. 13 │ │ Pions. │ Pions. │ │ 116 Pion. Co. │ 116 Pion Co. │ │ 184 T. M. Co. │204 Signal Command: │ │ Tel. Detch. │ 204 Tel. Detch. │ │ │ 75 Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Medical and │ │563 Ambulance Co. │563 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │ │ │407 Field Hospital.│252 Field Hospital. │ │408 Field Hospital.│407 Field Hospital. │ │Vet. Hospital. │249 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transport. │ │M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Odd units. │ │204 Cyclist Co. │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────────
HISTORY.
(13th Corps District—Wurttemberg.)
1916.
The 204th Division was formed in Germany in June and July, 1916. Its original composition was the 407th Brigade (413th and 414th Infantry, 13th Corps District, Wurttemberg) and the 408th Brigade (415th and 416th Infantry, 12th and 19th Corps Districts, Saxony).
1. The two brigades, which had respectively been trained at the Muensingen cantonment in Wurttemberg (the 407th) and at Neuhammer (the 408th), were brought together at the end of July, 1916. The division was then sent to Belgium. It detrained at Cortemarck on July 27.
FLANDERS.
2. Almost immediately put in line, the 204th occupied the Dixmude- Bixschoote sector until October 1 and then the Ypres salient (southeast). At the end of 1916 the 415th and the 146th Infantry were taken from the front and transferred to the 212th Division and replaced by the 120th Reserve Infantry (Wurttemberg), coming from the 58th Division.
1917.
1. After four weeks’ rest in the region of Ghent in February, 1917, the division came back to the sector at the southeast of Ypres.
2. It was relieved on June 10, three days after the British attack against the heights of Wytschaete-Messines. The division was only
## partially subjected to this attack, but suffered some losses during the
artillery preparation.
ALSACE.
3. After having been at rest at Gheluvelt on about June 20, the 204th Division was transferred to the vicinity of Sarreberg, then on July 8 to the west of Basle, where it remained until July 20. From July 20 until August 15 it held a sector in Upper Alsace (north of the Rhone-Rhine Canal).
FLANDERS.
4. Again sent to Belgium, it went into line to the north of St. Julien, southeast of Poelcappelle, at the end of August. No important engagement.
CAMBRÉSIS.
5. Relieved from the Ypres front on September 13, it took over a sector near Cambrai (Boursies-Demicourt; Sept. 24-Nov. 13).
FLANDERS.
6. Relieved about the middle of November, it went back to Flanders, where it alternated with the 58th Division to the north of Poelcappelle until the end of February.
RECRUITING.
The division has been entirely made up of Wurttemberg recruits since December, 1916.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
Fairly good division.
1918.
1. After its relief northeast of Poelcappelle on February 28, the division rested near Lille until March 21. Elements of the division were in line at Fromelles on March 9 and others participated in a raid (the 13th) in the Boutillerie sector.
2. The division left the Lille area on March 21 and marched in stages to Douai, arriving there on the 27th. It was in support northwest of Vitry en Artois on the 29th. On the 30th it marched toward the battle front south of the Somme via Inchy-Peronne (Apr. 1), Assevillers, Rosieres, south of Moreuil.
BATTLE OF PICARDY.
3. It was engaged in the Braches-Sauvillers sector from April 1 to May 11. It was relieved by an extension of the front of the neighboring divisions and retired to rest and train near Chaulnes until June 5.
BATTLE OF THE OISE.
4. The division left Chaulnes about June 5 and marched in three days to the Lassigny-Noyon front. It advanced in reserve on the 9th by Gury- Mareuil-Lamotte. It was engaged south of Ribecourt near Bethancourt until the 12th. From the 13th to the 18th the division was in reserve. It was reengaged on the night of the 18th–19th and held the sector of Vignemont-Antheuil until the 1st of August, when it was relieved by the 54th Division.
THIRD BATTLE OF THE SOMME.
5. It rested in the suburbs of Lassigny until August 8. It then marched to Damery, arriving there on the 10th and immediately entering line. In the next week the division was thrown back by Damery, Villery les Roye to Goyencourt. The division suffered heavy losses, including about 370 prisoners near Roye.
LORRAINE.
6. The division was railed to Lorraine and rested near Blamont during September. Drafts amounting to about 700 men were incorporated in the division in mid-September.
7. The division left Lorraine on October 5 and detrained at Bertry on the 7th. It was engaged on October 8 east of Catelet, and in the next 10 days fell back through Cremont, Maretz, Sains, Souplet, Catillon. Its heavy losses, including 1,200 prisoners, led to its withdrawal on October 18.
8. On October 22–23 the division was reengaged southeast of Le Cateau. It held there until the breakdown of the line on November 5. Thereafter it fell back on Maubeuge, through Favril, Limont, Fontaine.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The division was rated as third class. Before the attack of August it had about 2,700 rifles. The losses in August had a depressing effect on the morale of the troops.
205th Division.
COMPOSITION.