1. About February 15, 1916, the division was relieved from the sector on the right bank of the Meuse and put in reserve. During the first days of the offensive it engaged only a few attack battalions. Beginning March 12 it was in line before Vaux and Fort Vaux and had very heavy losses. April 3 the 8th of the 37th Fusiliers received at least 64 replacements (recuperated men who entered the service the preceding November and recovered wounded and sick). 2. The division was relieved at the end of April and sent to rest in the region of Mulhouse from the beginning of May to June 12. CHAMPAGNE. 3. Sent to Champagne and held the sector north of Tahure, south of Somme Py, until September 20. SOMME. 4. After a few days rest it was sent to the Somme south of the St. Pierre Wood-Vaast from October 5 to 15. It suffered very heavy losses there. 5. At rest for 13 days, then entrained, and went to Dun via Hirson- Mézières-Charleville-Sedan October 23. MORT HOMME. 6. It held the sector of Mort Homme (left bank of the Meuse) from October 28 to February 8, 1917. 1917. 1. The division was at rest in the middle of February, 1917, in the region of Sedan, then of Dizy le Gros. AISNE. 2. At the beginning of March it went into line in the region of Berry au Bac (from Hill 108 to Spigneul). It was relieved at the beginning of the French attack April 16. The French artillery preparation caused it heavy losses. MORT HOMME-HILL 304. 3. From April 24 to May 15 it was in line in its old sector—Cumierès- Mort Homme—and from the middle of May till July 19 in the adjoining sector—Hill 304-Avocourt Wood. It attacked June 28 and 29 and opposed our counterattacks of July 12 to 17, suffering heavy losses. 4. Withdrawn from the front about July 19. 5. At rest near Sedan and reorganized (replacements from the Fifth District and Eighteenth District (Frankfort on Main)). CHAMPAGNE. 6. It then took over the sector Vitry-Cernay les Reims about August 8. Remained there until about October 27. 7. November 9 it went into line north of Craonne in the region of Chermizy-Bouconville (?). Some of the units of the division were not in this sector. After a rest in the camp of Sissonne and at Poilcourt, end of October to middle of December, they went into line in the sector Miette-Aisne about December 17. About that date the division was regrouped north of Berry au Bac, where it was still in February, 1918. RECRUITING. Province of Posen. The differences were made up by the Sixth District mostly. VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE. The division is considered as a “big attack” division. In April, 1917, in the region of Berry au Bac it executed a well-conducted attack on Satigneul. The offensive value of the division showed itself again during the attacks of June 28–29 of 1917 at Hill 304.