240th Division (German Empire)

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The 240th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of February 8, 1918

  • 240th Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 240
    • Field Artillery Regiment No. 271
  • Engineer Battalion No. 240
  • Division News Commander # 240

history

The division was put together on January 16, 1917 and used exclusively on the Western Front. After the end of the war, she marched back home, where the association was first demobilized and finally dissolved in January 1919 .

Battle calendar

1917

1918

  • 0January 1st to February 1st - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0February 1 to March 20 - Trench warfare in Artois and deployment to the Great Battle of France
  • March 21 to April 6 - Great battle in France
    • March 28th - attack on the Scarpe
  • 0April 7th to 8th - Fights between Arras and Albert
  • 0April 9-18 - Battle of Armentières
  • April 20-30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 1st to 5th - Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • 0May 8th to July 12th - Trench warfare in the Argonne
  • July 13-14 - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • July 15-17 - Assault battle on the Marne and Champagne
  • July 18-25 - Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
  • July 26th to August 3rd - Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
  • 0August 4th to October 9th - Trench warfare near Reims
  • October 10-12 - Fighting on the Hunding and Brunhild fronts
  • October 13 to November 2 - Defensive battle in Champagne and on the Meuse
    • 0November 1st to 2nd - defensive battles between Aire and Maas, fighting in retreat and crossing over to the right bank of the Meuse
  • 0November 2nd to 4th - Fights between Aisne and Meuse
  • 0November 5th to 11th - fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp- Maas position
  • from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich Gottfried Müller January 16, 1917 to January 19, 1919

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 76, 173.
  • Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905, Office of the Adjutant, 1920, pp. 735-736.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , p. 162.