│ │ Section. │ │49 Balloon Sqn. │ │265 Reconnaissance │ │ Flight. │ │(Elements attached, │ │ July, 1918; from │ │ German │ │ document.). ─────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────── HISTORY. (7TH CORPS DISTRICT—WESTPHALIA.) 1914. BELGIUM. 1. The 14th Reserve Division belongs, like the 13th Reserve Division, to the 7th Reserve Corps. It was formed from the Reserve Brigade at the Senne Camp and from one brigade, surplus, of the 14th active division (28th Brigade). One regiment of this brigade, the 39th Fusiliers, from Dusseldorf, appeared in front of Liege on August 8, while the rest of the division was being assembled at Dueren. MAUBEUGE. 2. Entering into Belgium by way of Verviers, on August 16, the 14th Reserve Division then formed a part of the 2d German Army. It was in front of Namur on August 21, with the reserve corps of the Guard and the 11th Corps. After Namur was taken it went to invest Maubeuge with the 13th Division. AISNE. 3. Set free on September 7 by the fall of this place, it left on the 10th to strengthen the Aisne front. About the 13th of September it occupied the heights around Cerny-en-Laonnois. 1915. AISNE. 1. The division held the sector between Cerny and Craonne (north of Paissy) until the beginning of November, 1915. In March it gave the 39th Fusiliers to the 50th Division, a new formation. 2. About November 2 it was transferred to the Charleroi area where it rested and had further training. 3. At the end of December it was sent north of Verdun, near Romagne sous les Cotes. 1916. VERDUN. 1. In January and until February 20, 1916, it was employed in works preparatory to the attack (Damvillers area). 2. On February 23 it was in line on the right bank of the Meuse. It took part, from the very beginning, in the German offensive against Verdun, attacked Samogneux, Poivre Hill, and the Hill of Talou and Vacherauville. (On the 3d of April, the 11th Company of the 16th Reserve Infantry Regiment had already received more than 118 men as replacements. On May 14, at least 153 had been sent to the 8th Company of the 53d Infantry Reserve Regiment.) 3. Until the end of December the 14th Reserve Division occupied this sector (of the Meuse (Champneuville) at Poivre Hill). On December 15, it underwent the French counteroffensive, to the west of Douaumont, which caused it to suffer very heavy losses. Then it took over the sector of Hill 344 for one week. 4. The division was relieved from December 22–25, concentrated in the Damvillers area and transferred to Champagne where it was reorganized.