│Field Hospital. │3 Gd. Vet. │ │ Hospital. │Vet. Hospital. │ ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Transport. │M. T. Col. │532 M. T. Col. ─────────────┼───────────────────┼─────────────────── Attached. │75 Anti-Aircraft │ │ Section. │ ─────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────── Footnote 2: Organized in August, 1914; elements taken from 1st and 2d Guard Divisions. HISTORY. 1914. FRANCE. 1. In August, 1914, the 3d Guard Division was first directed to the Western Front. It fought below Namur. RUSSIA. 2. The 27th of August the division was transported to Silesia via Oriental Prussia. It took part in the invasion of southern Poland. 3. The group of armies of which it formed a part was turned back and was obliged to retire to Lodz. 4. During the winter of 1914–15 it took part in the severe engagements on the Bzura. 1915. 1. At the beginning of 1915 the 3d Guard Division was dismembered; the 5th Brigade was sent to Oriental Prussia; the 6th Brigade, to the south of the Carpathians, was engaged in the Uzsok defile distinct. 2. In March, 1915, the 6th Brigade alone formed the 3d Guard Division, with the addition of the 9th Grenadier Regiment to its own two regiments. Thus formed, the 3d Guard Division took part in the campaign of the summer of 1915. (Carpathians Oriental Galicia. Linsingen’s army.) 3. The division took up its position before Tarnopol and passed the winter of 1915–16 there. (Bothmer’s army.) 1916. FRANCE. 1. In April, 1916, the 3d Guard Division was transported to the Western Front. It occupied a sector in Champagne and took part in no serious engagements. 2. It was sent to rest at Valenciennes the 1st of June. SOMME. 3. The 1st of July (beginning of the Franco-British offensive) the 3d Guard Division went into the line on the Somme. It was put to a severe test there, particularly in the Thiepval district (57.5 per cent loss). 4. After the Somme it was sent to the Dixmude front. GALICIA. 5. It was transported to Galicia (beginning of September) by the following itinerary: Liège, Cologne, Leipzig, Dresden, Cracow, Przemysl. 6. At Halicz the 3d Guard Division took part in the German counteroffensive, and again suffered great losses. FRANCE. 7. It was sent back to the Western Front on the 24th of November by the following itinerary: Lemberg, Jaroslaw, Gorlitz, Dresden, Chemnitz, Nurnberg, Heilbronn, Strasbourg, Mulhouse, Rheinweiler, and having arrived there the 20th of November, was sent to rest for a month. 1917. LORRAINE. 1. Beginning with January and up to April 6, 1917, the division occupied the sector of the forest of Parroy.