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Military unit
The 22nd Division was an
infantry
division of the
British Army during World War I , raised in September 1914, from men volunteering for
Lord Kitchener 's
New Armies . The division moved to
France in September 1915, but it was transferred to
Greece only one month later. It served in the
Balkans Campaign for the duration of the
First World War .
The 22nd Division's insignia was a solid black bar.
Unit history
The Division was one of the six created for the Third New Army on 13 September 1914. It moved to France in early September 1915 and then to
Salonika in October 1915 seeing action in the Retreat from
Serbia in December 1915, the
Battle of Horseshoe Hill in August 1916, the
Battle of Machukovo in September 1916 and the
Battle of Doiran in April / May 1917. The Division was disbanded by 31 March 1919.
[2]
Order of Battle
The following units served with the division:
[2]
65th Brigade
66th Brigade
67th Brigade
11th (Service) Battalion,
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
7th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers
8th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers (left 30 June 1918 )
11th (Service) Battalion,
Welsh Regiment
67th Machine Gun Company (joined 14 July 1916 )
67th Trench Mortar Battery (joined 4 November 1916 )
Divisional Troops
12th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire regiment (left February 1915 )
10th (Service) Battalion,
Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (left April 1915 )
9th (Service) Battalion,
North Staffordshire Regiment (left April 1915 )
9th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment (joined as Divisional Pioneer Battalion in February 1915 )
10th (Service) Battalion,
Hampshire Regiment (joined January 1919, left February 1919 )
2nd Battalion, the QVO Rajput Light Infantry (attached January to February 1919 )
10th (Service) Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment (joined January 1919, left February 1919 )
1/10th Battalion,
Jat Regiment (attached in January 1919 )
95th Russell's Infantry (attached January to February 1919 )
Divisional Mounted Troops
22nd Divisional Train
Army Service Corps
186th, 187th, 188th and 189th Companies (transferred to
[30th Division in October 1915 )
108th, 109th, 110th and 111th Companies (joined from
10th (Irish) Division in late 1915 )
34th Mobile Veterinary Section
Army Veterinary Corps
816th Divisional Employment Company (formed 10 October 1917 )
Royal Artillery
XCVIII Brigade,
Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.)
XCIX Brigade, RFA
C Brigade, R.F.A.
CI Brigade, R.F.A.
22nd Divisional Ammunition Column RFA (transferred to
XII Corps January 1915 )
22nd Heavy Battery,
Royal Garrison Artillery (R.G.A.) (joined XXIII Heavy Artillery Brigade on 31 August 1915 )
Royal Engineers
87th Field Company (left February 1915 )
88th Field Company (left February 1915 )
99th Field Company (joined February 1915 )
100th Field Company (joined February 1915 )
127th Field Company (joined by June 1915 )
22nd Divisional Signals Company
Royal Army Medical Corps
66th Field Ambulance
67th Field Ambulance
68th Field Ambulance
39th Sanitary Section
General officers commanding
General Officers commanding were as follows:
See also
Notes
^ Chappell p. 14
^
a
b Baker, Chris.
"22nd Division" . The Long, Long Trail . Retrieved 14 November 2018 .
Bibliography
Becke, A. F. (1938). Order of Battle of Divisions Part 3A . London: His Majesty's Stationery Office.
Chappel M 1986 British Battle Insignia (1). 1914-18 Osprey Publishing
ISBN
9780850457278
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