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Military unit
The 27th Division was an
infantry
division of the
British Army raised during the
Great War , formed in late 1914 by combining various
Regular Army units that had been acting as
garrisons about the
British Empire . The division spent most of 1915 on the
Western Front in
France before moving to
Salonika where it remained with the
British Salonika Army for the duration of the war. In 1916 its commander
Hurdis Ravenshaw was captured by an Austrian submarine whilst sailing to England. In 1918 in
Salonika the division took part in the
Battle of Doiran . It carried out occupation duties in the
Caucasus in the post-war before being withdrawn from the region in 1919.
[2]
Order of battle
The division was composed of the following units:
[3]
[4]
80th Brigade
81st Brigade
The following battalions also served with the brigade a time in 1915:
82nd Brigade
The following battalions also served with the brigade a time in 1915:
19th Brigade
The brigade joined the division in May 1915 from the
6th Division leaving for the
2nd Division in August.
Division Troops
26th (Service) Battalion,
Middlesex Regiment , pioneers (joined August 1916 )
27th Divisional Train
A.S.C.
95th, 96th, 97th and 98th Companies A.S.C. (left November 1915 for
55th Division )
483rd, 484th, 485th and 486th Companies (joined 16 January 1916 )
16th Mobile Veterinary Section
A.V.C.
818th Divisional Employment Company (formed 14 September 1917 )
Divisional Mounted Troops
Royal Artillery
Royal Engineers
Royal Army Medical Corps
81st (1st Home Counties) Field Ambulance (T.F.) R.A.M.C.
82nd (2nd Home Counties) Field Ambulance (T.F.) R.A.M.C.
83rd (3rd Home Counties) Field Ambulance (T.F.) R.A.M.C.
7th Sanitary Section R.A.M.C. (joined 9 January 1915 left 16 April 1917 )
Commanders
During its existence, 27th Division had the following commanders:
[5]
See also
References
^ Chappell p. 16
^ On the withdrawal, see
Richard G. Hovannisian , The Republic of Armenia, Vol. II: From Versailles to London, 1919-1920 . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982, pp. 109-39.
^ Becke, pp. 97–103.
^
"27th Division" . The Long Long Trail. Retrieved 13 November 2018 .
^
Becke 1935 , p. 97
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