│ │ 95 Wireless Detch. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Medical and │Ambulance Co. │11 Ambulance Co. Veterinary.│ │ │31 Field Hospital. │36 Field Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │39 Field Hospital. │ │8 Vet. Hospital. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transports. │M. T. Col. │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Attached. │72 Anti-Aircraft │ │ Section. │ │ │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────── HISTORY. (Fourth District—Prussian Saxony.) 1914. FRANCE. 1. With the 7th Division, the 8th Division formed the 4th Army Corps. It detrained August 10 to 12 near Dusseldorf and, with that corps, was part of the 1st Army (Von Kluck). Entered Belgium the 15th, passed through Louvain the 19th, and through Brussels the 20th, and executed with the 7th Division an enveloping movement on the left of the Allies. Fought at Solesmes the 26th and arrived east of Coulommiers September 6, from where it was sent in a great hurry to the right of the 1st Army, with the 7th Division (Lizy sur Ourcq-Plessis, Placy, etc.). September 8 the 11th Company of the 93d Infantry was reduced to 96 men (notebook). 2. After the retreat, beginning the 15th, it was engaged against the left wing of the British north of Soissons (battle of the Aisne, Cuffies, Chavigny, Pasly, etc.). 3. At the end of September it went with the 4th Army Corps to Artois with the 6th Army. 4. At the beginning of October it took part in the attacks south of Arras and held the lines near Monchy aux Bois. 1915. 1. The division held the Monchy sector during the first few months of 1915. At the end of May it was relieved from this sector and put in the reserve of the army near Douai after transferring the 36th Fusiliers to the 113th Division, newly formed (March). 2. During the first two weeks of June it went into line in the Souchez sector and opposed the French attacks. Relieved at the beginning of September and became army reserve near Tourcoing and Roubaix. LOOS. 3. At the battle of Loos during the counterattack the division suffered heavy losses in September and October. 1916. 1. In 1916 until the battle of the Somme the division did not take part in any serious engagements. It was established in the Loos sector. July 3 it left this front for the Somme. SOMME. 2. In the middle of July it went into battle on the Pozieres-Longueval- Bois Delville front and suffered very heavy losses. 3. Toward the end of July it was relieved and sent to rest in the region of Valenciennes. 4. August 9 it took over a quiet sector before Arras and stayed there about five weeks.