─────────────┼─────────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────── Attached. │ │19 Bav. F. A. Rgt. ─────────────┴─────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────── Footnote 10: Composition at time of dissolution, August, 1918. HISTORY. (16th Bavarian: First Bavarian District—Lower Bavaria. 6th Reserve Bavarian and 8th Reserve Bavarian: Second Bavarian District—Bavarian Palatinate.) 1915. This division was organized in Belgium in March, 1915. Its three infantry regiments were drawn from already existing Bavarian divisions—the 16th Bavarian from the 1st Bavarian Division, the 6th Reserve Bavarian from the 5th Bavarian Reserve Division, and the 8th Bavarian Reserves from the 4th Bavarian Division. 1. In April, 1915, the division was in the region of Tournai. SOMME. 2. In May it took over the sector of Lihons-Estrees road to Foucaucourt, which it occupied until the Franco-British offensive of 1916. 3. In October some units of the division were sent as reinforcements to Neuville-St. Vaast and to Champagne. 1916. SOMME. 1. Remained in the Foucaucourt-Lihons sector until the middle of June, 1916. 2. At the end of June it was sent south of Bapaume and took part in the battle of the Somme near Contalmaison, Bazentin le Petit, and Longueval from July 1 to the end of July. The 6th Reserve Infantry suffered heavily. Its 2d Battalion lost 11 officers and 724 men (casualty lists). GALICIA. 3. About the middle of August the division was sent to the Eastern Front (Stanislau) and the trip lasted from August 13 to 18. BUKOVINA. 4. September and October: Bukovina (Dorna-Vatra, Kirlibaba, west of Mont Capoul). It fought against the right wing of the Roumanian Army. TRANSYLVANIA. 5. From November, 1916, to the end of January, 1917, it held the sector of Tolgyes in Transylvania. 1917. GALICIA. 1. At the beginning of February, 1917, the division left the Roumanian front and went to Galicia (sector of Zalosce) from February to May, being attached to the 2d Austro-Hungarian Army. FRANCE. 2. In May the division returned to France, via Zloczow (May 19), Lemberg, Cracow, Breslau, Frankfort on Main, Treves. ALSACE. Detrained about May 25 in the region of Mulhouse; then was sent to rest and training in Upper Alsace at the beginning of June and sent to Belgium (June 12 to 14). FLANDERS. 3. Fought south of the Ypres-Comines canal where it opposed the attack of July 31. It then went to the region of Catelet (sector of Gonnelieu) from August 12 to the end of September. It was near Becelaere in October. RUSSIA.