27th Division Army Regular Army Formed October, 1914 Demobilised
27th Division was a First World War regular army infantry division formed in late 1914 by combining various units that had been acting as garrisons about the British Empire . The division spent most of 1915 on the France before moving to Salonika .
Unit history
Formation 80th Brigade 2nd Battalion, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry 3rd Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps 4th Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps 4th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry battalion served with the brigade from November 1914 until joining the Canadian 3rd Division in November 1915.
81st Brigade The following battalions also served with the brigade for periods in 1915:
1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, the Royal Scots Regiment 1/9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 82nd Brigade 2nd Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment (until November 1916 ) 2nd Battalion, the Royal Irish Fusiliers (until November 1916 ) 1st Battalion, the Prince of Wales 's Leinster Regiment (until November 1916 ) 2nd Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment (from 81st Bde. November 1916 ) 10th (Service) Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment (from November 1916 ) 1/1st Battalion, the Cambridgeshire Regiment (from February 1915 to November 1915 ) 10th (Lovat's Scouts) Battalion TF , the Cameron Highlanders (from October 1916 to June 1918 ) 19th Brigade (May 31 1915 to August 19 1915) 2nd Battalion, the Royal Welch Fusiliers 1st Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1/5th Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) 1st Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment 2nd Battalion, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders The brigade joined the division in May 1915 from the 6th Division before joining the 2nd Division in August.
Battles
External links The British Army in the Great War: The 27th Division (http://www.1914_1918.net/27div.htm )
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The division received its first taste of war on July 9, when, with the 27th Division , it was assigned to the organization and defense of the East Poperinghe Line, a third defensive position in the Dickebusch Lake and Scherpenberg Sectors. The 30th Division returned to the line on the night of October 15 and 16, the 59th Infantry Brigade relieving the 54th Infantry Brigade (27th Division ), in the right sector of the II Corps from Vaux-Andigny to one-half kilometer west of St. Martin-Riviere, British Sixth Division on the right, 27th Division on the left. The 30th Division was relieved by the British First Division on the night of October 19 and 20, and moved, October 20-23 to the vicinity of Tincourt-Boucly and Roisel.
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