7th Cavalry Rifle Division

7th Cavalry Rifle Division
active	May 14, 1918 to 1919
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Cavalry Rifle Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front

The 7th Cavalry Rifle Division was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

Division of War of August 22, 1918

• 21st Landwehr Infantry Brigade
  • Cavalry Rifle Command 28
    • Uhlan regiment "Graf Haeseler" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 11
    • Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15
    • Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 4
  • Cavalry Rifle Command 30
    • 3rd Silesian Dragoon Regiment No. 15
    • Dragoon Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württembergisches) No. 25
    • 2nd Rhenish Hussar Regiment No. 9
  • Cavalry Rifle Command 41
    • Uhlan Regiment "von Schmidt" (1st Pomeranian) No. 4
    • Cuirassier regiment "Duke Friedrich Eugen von Württemberg" (West Prussian) No. 5
    • Dragoon Regiment "König" (2nd Württemberg) No. 26
    • 2nd squadron / cuirassier regiment "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia" (Brandenburg) No. 6
• Artillery Commander No. 218
  • Guard field artillery staff for special use
  • IV. Division / 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment
  • V. Department / 1. Guard field artillery regiment
  • IV. Division / Field Artillery Regiment "von Podbielski" (1st Lower Silesian) No. 5
  • Foot Artillery Battalion No. 117
• Engineer Battalion No. 485
• Division News Commander No. 514

history

The large formation was converted from the 7th Cavalry Division to the 7th Cavalry Rifle Division on May 14, 1918 and was used exclusively on the Western Front in the last months of the war . The division was classified by the Americans after the war as fourth class with approaches to third class.

Battle calendar

1918

• May 19 to July 9 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
• July 10 to August 31 --- Trench warfare in Flanders
• September 1st to 2nd --- Battle of Monchy-Bapaume
• September 3 to 6 --- Fighting before the Siegfried Line
• September 27th to October 8th --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and Saint-Quentin
• October 9th to 17th --- Defensive battle in Flanders
• October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Leie
• October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
• November 1st to 11th --- Trench warfare in Upper Alsace
• from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Lieutenant General	Hans von Heuduck	May 23, 1918 to January 1919

literature

• Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 78, 179.
• 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, p. 256.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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. 421.