240th Division (German Empire)
The 240th Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .
structure
Division of War of February 8, 1918
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240th Infantry Brigade
- Infantry Regiment No. 469
- Infantry Regiment No. 470
- Infantry Regiment No. 471
- 3rd Squadron / Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13
- 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
- position battle in the Upper Rhine March 1 to August 26 -
- August 27 to October 6 - trench warfare on the Meuse heights near Combres, Les Eparges and the Grande Tranchée de Calonne
- Third Battle of Flanders October 6th to 18th -
- October 18 to November 5 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
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Siegfriedstellung
- November 20-29 - Tank battle at Cambrai
- November 30th to December 7th - Assault battle near Cambrai
November 5th to December 7th - fighting in the - 7th to 31st December - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
1918
- January 1st to February 1st - trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- February 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
- Arras and Albert April 7th to 8th - Fights between
- 9-18 - Battle of Armentières April
- April 20-30 - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- May 1st to 5th - Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
- Argonne May 8th to July 12th - Trench warfare in the
- 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
- August 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
- Aire and Maas, fighting in retreat and crossing over to the right bank of the Meuse November 1st to 2nd - defensive battles between
- November 2nd to 4th - Fights between Aisne and Meuse
- Antwerp- Maas position November 5th to 11th - fighting in retreat in front of the
- from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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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
- Infantry Regiment 470 in position near Altkirch. (PDF; 2.0 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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.