96th Division (6th Royal Saxon)

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The 96th Division (6th Royal Saxon) was a major unit of the Saxon army in the network of the German Army in the First World War .

history

The division was assembled on May 3, 1917 on the Eastern Front , where it was in service until the end of the local armistice until the end of February 1918. It was then transferred to the Western Front, where the division intervened in the trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges from April . After the end of the war, the occupied territory was evacuated and the march back home. There the division was demobilized from January 1919 and finally dissolved.

Battle calendar

1917

  • May 4th to June 30th --- Trench warfare south of Brody
  • 1st to 6th coolies --- Defense against the Russian summer offensive
    • July 1st to 2nd --- First defensive battle near Koniuchy-Hodow
    • July 1st to 6th --- Defensive battle east of Zloczow
    • July 2nd and 6th --- Defensive battle east of Pomorzany
    • July 6th --- Second defensive battle near Koniuchy-Hodow
  • July 7th to 18th --- Trench warfare east of Zloczow
  • July 19-23 --- Breakthrough battle in Eastern Galicia
    • July 20th --- Breakthrough of the altitude at Koniuchy
    • July 21 --- Kamienna-Gora, on the Brzezany - Tarnopol railway line near Denysow
    • July 22nd --- Rakowiec-Höhe
    • July 23 --- Strypa transition
  • July 23-30 --- Persecution battles in Eastern Galicia
    • July 24th to 25th --- at the Dubyna-Höhe, near Brykula and near Romanowka
    • July 29th to 30th --- Hussyatyn
  • July 31 to August 2 --- Fights for the Zbrucz , between Zbrucz and Sereth
    • July 31 to August 2 --- Hussyatyn
  • August 3 to December 7 --- Position battles between Dniester and Zbrucz, on the Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • December 8th to 17th --- Truce
  • from December 17th --- armistice

1918

  • through February 23rd --- Armistice
  • February 24th to March 9th --- Transport to the west
  • April 6 to November 11 --- Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • from November 12th --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

structure

Division of war 1917/18

  • 177th Infantry Brigade
  • Artillery Commander No. 140
    • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 53
  • Engineer Battalion No. 96
  • Division News Commander # 96

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Friedrich of the ceiling May 3, 1917 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. 73, 155.
  • 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. 580-581.