─────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────── HISTORY. (Third District—Brandenburg.) 1914. FRANCE. 1. The 5th Division with the 6th Division formed the 3d Army Corps. At the beginning of the campaign it was part of the 1st Army (Von Kluck). It detrained near Aix la Chapelle August 9 and 10, entered Belgium the 14th, and passed through Louvain the 19th. Took part in the battle of Charleroi and the battle of the Marne (at Sancy and Cerneux, Sept. 6), then in the battles between the Aisne and the Marne in September, and was finally stabilized between the Aisne and the Oise, in the region Vailly and Soissons. 1915. 1. Battle of Soissons (Jan. 13). 2. About June 10 the 5th Division was no longer a part of the 1st Army. July 1 it was sent to Douai, and about July 14 held the sector before Arras. 3. September 25, 1915, took part in the attacks in Champagne. BELGIUM. 4. Went to Belgium in December. About December 25 was at rest in the region Hirson-Avesnes. 1916. VERDUN. 1. At the beginning of February, 1916, it was in the region of Spincourt. 2. At the end of February at Verdun. It fought near Herbebois February 23. It attacked Douaumont February 26 and suffered severe losses. It was again engaged from March 8 to 15 and from April 22 to the end of the May. SOMME. 3. July at the Somme (Longueval, Bois Delville). Suffered heavy losses. 4. Middle of August in Champagne (Auberive) until October 12. VERDUN. 5. December, 1916, it went again to Verdun (region of Vaux, Dec. 7). Units of the 5th Division were engaged as reinforcements during the French attack of December 15. The division was withdrawn from the Verdun front about December 25 and sent to the region of Mulhouse. 1917. ALSACE. 1. Stayed in Upper Alsace (region of Mulhouse and Ferrette) until April 20, 1917. It held temporarily a calm sector in the Vosges region, but during this period it is used particularly for entrenching works on the French front and the Swiss frontier. CHAMPAGNE. 2. It was alarmed. It entrained in the region of Mulhouse and was sent through Montmedy and Sedan to Champagne, where it went into line on April 23 in the Mont-Haut sector, where it suffered very heavy losses. 3. Left Champagne front at the beginning of May. 4. Toward the end of June it was in the Woevre in the region between Conflans and Briey. 5. At the beginning of July it was again in the Champagne (Téton sector). RUSSIA. 6. Sent to the Eastern Front in July and relieved at the beginning of September by the 6th Reserve Division in the region of Zbrucz. ITALY. 7. About October sent from Galicia to Italy. FRANCE. 8. Sent from Italy to France at the beginning of January, 1918, and at rest behind the front in Champagne. January 20, 1918, it went into line near Butte du Mesnil.