3rd Reserve Division (German Empire)

3rd Reserve Division (German Empire)
active	1914 to 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Armed forces	army
Type	Infantry division
structure	see: Outline
First World War	Eastern Front Battle of Gumbinnen Battle of Tannenberg Battle of the Masurian Lakes Western front

The 3rd Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

5th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 2
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 9
6th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 34
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 49
Reserve Dragoon Regiment No. 5
Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 3
2nd Reserve Company / Pomeranian Engineer Battalion No. 2

5th Reserve Infantry Brigade
- Fusilier regiment "Queen Victoria of Sweden" (Pomeranian) No. 34
- Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 49
- Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1st Pomeranian) No. 2
- 1st Squadron / 3rd Badisches Dragoon Regiment "Prinz Karl" No. 22
Artillery Commander No. 73
- Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 3
- IV. Battalion / Reserve Foot Artillery Regiment No. 14
Engineer Battalion No. 303
Division News Commander No. 403

August 19-20 --- Battle of Gumbinnen
August 21st to 31st --- Battle of Tannenberg
September 5th to 15th --- Battle of the Masurian Lakes
September 16 --- Battle of Augustów
September 25th to October 2nd --- Battles near Raczki
October 1 to November 5 --- Trench warfare in Grajewo -Wizajny
November 13th to 16th --- Battle of Rominter Heide
From November 17th --- Position battles for the field position Lötzen - Angerapp

until February 7th --- Position battles for the field position Lötzen-Angerapp
February 7-22 --- Winter battle in Masuria
February 21 to August 12 --- Trench warfare in front of Lomsha-Osowiec
19th August to 8th September --- Battle of Nyemen
September 9th to October 2nd --- Battle of Vilna
from October 3rd --- position battles between Krewo- Smorgon - Narotsch -Tweretsch

until May 11th --- position battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotsch-Tveretsch
- January 23rd to February 3rd --- Winter battle on the Aa
May 10-14 --- transport to the west
May 15 to June 3 --- Border patrol on the Belgian-Dutch border
June 7th to 20th --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
June 21st to July 28th --- Fighting in the Siegfriedstellung
July 30th to September 30th Battle of Flanders
October 1st to November 18th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
from November 20th --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette

until April 20 --- Trench warfare north of the Ailette
April 20th to June 8th --- Fights on the Avre and near Montdidier and Noyon
June 9-13 --- Battle of Noyon
June 9th to July 5th --- Fights on the Avre and Matz
July 5th to 15th --- Trench warfare west of Soissons
July 15th to 17th --- Trench warfare between Aisne and Marne
July 18th to 25th --- Defensive battle between Soissons and Reims
July 26th to August 3rd --- Mobile defensive battle between Marne and Vesle
4th to 20th August --- OHL reserves in the 18th Army
August 21 to September 2 --- Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
September 3 to 26 --- Fighting in front of the Siegfried Front
28 September to 17 October --- Defensive battle in Flanders
October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and 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-Maas position
from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 61, 90-91.
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. 83-85.

↑ Dermot Bradley (Ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815-1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 168.