23rd Reserve Division (1st Royal Saxon)

23rd Reserve Division (1st Royal Saxon)
active	August 2, 1914 to 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Saxon Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Battle of the Marne Battle of the Somme Eastern Front
Commanders
Please refer:	List of commanders

The 23rd Reserve Division (1st Royal Saxon) was a large unit of the Saxon Army .

structure

45th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 100
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 101
- Reserve Hunter Battalion No. 12
46th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 102
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 103
Saxon Reserve Hussar Regiment
Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 23
Reserve Engineer Battalion No. 12

46th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Grenadier Regiment No. 100
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 102
- Infantry Regiment No. 392
- 2nd Saxon Reserve Hussar Regiment No. 18
Artillery Commander No. 118
- Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 23
- 1st Battalion / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 15
Engineer Battalion No. 323
Division News Commander No. 423

The division was formed as part of the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War and was deployed on the western and eastern fronts as the war continued.

August 23rd to 24th --- Battle of Dinant
August 24th to 27th --- Intervention of the 3rd Army in the battle of the 2nd Army near Namur in the direction of Mettet - Philippeville and subsequent pursuit in a south-westerly and south-westerly direction to the Sormonne
August 27th to 30th --- Battle of the Meuse and pursuit as far as the Aisne
August 31 to September 5 --- Battle of the Aisne and pursuit as far as the Marne
September 6 to 10 --- Battle of Fère-Champenoise
September 12th to December 19th --- Trench warfare in Champagne
December 20th to 30th --- Battle of Souain, Perthes-lès-Hurlus and Beauséjour
from December 31st --- Trench warfare in Champagne

until January 31st --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
February 1 to April 1 --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
3rd to 10th April --- Reserve of the OHL
April 11 to May 26 --- Trench warfare on the Yser
May 27th to July 30th --- Battle of Flanders
July 31 to September 2 --- Border patrol at the Belgian-Dutch border
September 3 to 30 --- Battle of Flanders
October 1st to 7th --- transport to the east
October 7 to December 5 --- Trench warfare between Niemen - Berezina -Krewo- Smorgon - Naroch -Tweretsch
December 6th to 17th --- Truce
from December 17th --- armistice

until February 17th --- Armistice
February 18 to March 3 --- Offensive against Lake Peipus and the upper Daugava
March 3rd to 8th --- Occupation of Russian territory between the Upper Daugava and Lake Peipus
March 8-14 --- Transport to the west
March 14th to 20th --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
March 21st to April 6th --- Great battle in France
April 7th to June 23rd --- Fights between Arras and Albert
June 23 to August 4 --- Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
August 5th to September 6th --- Fighting on the Ypres Front - La Bassée
September 7th to October 14th --- Fighting on the Armentières - Lens front

October 15-19 --- Fighting between the Deûle Canal and the Scheldt

October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys

October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys

November 2nd to 4th --- Rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt

November 5th to 11th --- fighting in retreat in front of the Antwerp - Meuse position

from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Alexander von Larisch	August 2, 1914 to January 15, 1915
Lieutenant General	Bernhard von Watzdorf	January 16, 1915 to February 21, 1917
Lieutenant General	Traugott Freiherr Leuckart von Weissdorf	February 22, 1917 to March 12, 1918
Major general	Franz Franke	March 13 to 1919

Hall of Fame of our Old Army , published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 67, 122–123