│135 Field Hospital.│135 Field Hospital. │136 Field Hospital.│136 Field Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │136 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transports. │ │762 M. T. Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Attached. │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────── HISTORY. (360th and 361st: Fourth District—Prussian Saxony. 362d: Ninth District—Schleswig—Holstein.) 1914. The 4th Ersatz Division was organized in August, 1914, by grouping together brigade Ersatz Battalions coming from the Third, Fourth, and Ninth districts (Brandenburg Prussian-Saxony, Mecklenburg, Schleswig- Holstein, and Hansa towns). LORRAINE. 1. Detrained August 18 at Teterchen (Lorraine) and at the battle of the 20th the division was in the rear of the 2d Bavarian Corps. It fought on the 22d along the Marne-Rhine Canal between Einville and Dombasle, retreated on the 23d, suffered heavy losses on the 25th at Mazerulles, and engaged only a few units of its 9th Brigade in the attack on Nancy in September. 2. On September 15 the division went to rest west of Delme. On the 23d it entrained at Rening (Sarralbee-Benestroff line), passed through Metz, Luxemburg, Arlon, Marche, Liége, Louvain and detrained September 25, 1915, at Brussels. BELGIUM. 3. From there it went to Bruges (Oct. 14), then Ostend (Oct. 16). On the 17th by the road along the coast it marched from Ostend to Nieuport (Oct. 30). It then went into the line in front of the Belgians on the right bank of the Yser (November). 1915. DIXMUDE. 1. Remained in the sector north of Dixmude during the whole of 1915. 2. At the end of July, 1915, the brigade Ersatz Battalions of the division were grouped into regiments. The 4th Ersatz Division was made up of the 359th, 360th, 361st and 362d Infantry. With the 37th Landwehr Brigade and the 2d Reserve Ersatz Brigade (Basedow Division) it constituted the Werder Corps (December). 1916. 1. The division was kept in the region of Dixmude until April, 1916. 2. After April a part of the division was sent east of Ypres between the Ypres-Roulers Railway and the Comines Canal. Some of the units of the division remained in line near Dixmude. SOMME. 3. About September 27 the division left Belgium for the Somme, where it was engaged during the first two weeks of October near Le Sars. 4. On October 15 it returned to Belgium and went back to the sector east of Ypres in November. 5. Sent to rest about November 30 and sent back to the Somme south of Bapaume, about the middle of December. 1917.