Order of Battle of Divisions

Click on the Division for details of its history and its order of battle.

The Divisions of the Regular Army

Please note that these formations were only nominally of the regular army. From the very beginning some non-regular units were required to make up the full establishment and from as early as 1915 the ranks of regular units began to be replenished with “war service only” recruits.

Original British Expeditionary Force

Divisions formed in late 1914 and 1915

The Divisions of Lord Kitchener’s “New Armies” (technically Regular Army)

Divisions of the Territorial Force (First Line)

Divisions organised on the creation of the TF in 1908

Divisions re-formed in France in 1916

Divisions formed in the Middle East in 1917

Divisions of the Territorial Force (Second Line)

Other British Divisions

No 70th Division was formed

71st Division – did not serve overseas

72nd Division – did not serve overseas

73rd Division – did not serve overseas

Divisions of the forces of the Dominions and Empire

Australia and New Zealand

Canada

India

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