Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918)United States. War Department. General Staff
History
Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918)
United States. War Department. General Staff
Germany. Heer -- History -- World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany
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│195 Vet. Hospital. │195 Vet. Hospital.
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Transport. │535 M. T. Col. │535 M. T. Col.
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HISTORY.
(First District—Oriental Prussia.)
1914.
The first and second divisions formed the 1st Army Corps.
RUSSIA.
1. At the beginning of the war the 2d Division was sent to the Russian
front. Up to the month of November it participated in the operations in
Oriental Prussia (Tannenberg, Aug. 27–29).
2. In November, 1914, the 2d Division, minus one brigade, which
continued to hold its old sector, was withdrawn and included in the
group which attacked in the direction of Lodz and operated between the
Vistula and the Warta; continuing its activities, it attempted to cross
the Bzura-Rawka opposite Warsaw in the district of Lowicz.
1915.
1. At the beginning of February, 1915, it reappeared in Oriental Prussia
and participated in the offensive which ejected the Russians from this
Province. It was engaged in its entirety in the district of Lyck and
marched upon Augustowo and Grodno.
2. The Russian counter attack launched in the vicinity of Prasnysz
toward the end of March drew the 2d Division to this sector.
3. In July during the development of the Hindenburg offensive, it
emerged from the Ostrolenka-Pultusk line and proceeded in a northerly
direction.
4. Upon the stabilization of the front the 2d Division held a sector
between Illukst and Lake Drisviaty (Dwinsk District).
1916.
1. At the end of July, 1916, portions of the 2d Division were assigned
to duty in Galicia to oppose the Russian advance.
1917.
1. The reconstituted 2d Division was engaged in the Mitau sector up to
the end of January, 1917; all its units were identified in the vicinity
of Kalnzen.
2. On February 8 it entrained at Mitau for the western front.
(Itinerary: Chavli, Kovno, Insterburg, Konigsberg, Stettin, Hamburg,
Munster, Aix-la-Chapelle, Liège, Louvain, Bruxelles, Audenarde.)
BELGIUM.
3. Detrained February 13 and remained at rest up to the end of March. It
received reinforcements of various classes of men (wounded,
convalescents, class 1917 reservists).
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