17th (Northern) Division Army New Army Formed September 1914 Demobilised May 1919 British First World War divisions Previous Next 16th (Irish) 18th (Eastern)

The British 17th (Northern) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division moved to France in July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front. Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links British_17th_(Northern)_Division_Insignia. ... Following the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War the then British Secretary of State for War Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, advised forming a volunteer army of a million men. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... List of military divisions — List of British divisions in WWI This page is a list of British divisions that fought in World War I. Divisions were either infantry or cavalry. ... The 16th (Irish) Division was a division of the New Army, raised in Ireland from the Irish National Volunteers in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. ... The British 18th (Eastern) Division was a New Army division formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. ... Following the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War the then British Secretary of State for War Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, advised forming a volunteer army of a million men. ... A division is a large military unit or formation usually consisting of around ten to fifteen thousand soldiers. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1915 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... See Western Front (disambiguation) for other meanings. ...

Unit history

Formation

50th Brigade 

• 10th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (disbanded February 1918)
• 6th (Service) Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment (from March 1915)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment (until March 1915)

51st Brigade 

• 7th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
• 7th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment
• 10th (Service) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters
• 8th (Service) Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment (disbanded February 1918)
• 3/4th Battalion Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (from June 1917 to 52nd Bde August 1917)

52nd Brigade 

• 10th (Service) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
• 12th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment
• 9th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
• 9th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (until August 1917)
• 3/4th Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) (from 51st Bde August 1917, disbanded February 1918)

The West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Waless Own) (the 14th of Foot) amalgamated with the East Yorkshire Regiment (the 15th of Foot) in 1958 to form The Prince of Waless Own Regiment of Yorkshire. ... Jump to: navigation, search Official name The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Waless Own Yorkshire Regiment) Colonel-in-Chief HM King Harald V of Norway Nicknames Original nickname was the Green Howards. ... The Dorset Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. ... Jump to: navigation, search The York and Lancaster Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. ... History The Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales) or Staffords was formed in 1959 by the amalgamation of The South Staffordshire Regiment and the North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales). The Staffords can trace their history back to 1705 when a regiment known as the 38th Foot was raised at Lichfield... The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment was a regiment of the British Army. ... The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers. ... In 1881 The Manchester Regiment was formed with the amalgamation of the 63rd Regiment of Foot and the 96th Regiment of Foot. ... Official name The Duke of Wellingtons Regiment (West Riding) Colonel-in-Chief Brigadier His Grace Arthur Valerian Wellesley KG LVO OBE MC BA DL, 8th Duke of Wellington Colonel-of-the-Regiment Major-General Sir Evelyn John Webb-Carter KCB Nicknames The Dukes, The Havercake Lads, The Pattern, The... THE ROYAL NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS Nomenclature One of Englands premier county regiments, the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers can trace its ancestory back to the year 1674. ...

Battles

• Battle of the Somme (1916)
• Third Battle of Ypres

Jump to: navigation, search The 1916 Battle for Nick was one of the largest battles of the First World War, with more than one million casualties. ... Passchendaele village, before and after the Battle of Passchendaele The Battle of Passchendaele, otherwise known as the Third Battle of Ypres, was one of the major battles of World War I, fought by British, ANZAC, and Canadian soldiers against the German army near Ypres (Ieper in Flemish) in West Flanders...

External links

• The British Army in the Great War: The 17th (Northern) Division