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14th (Light) Division

Field	Value
unit_name	14th (Light) Division
image	British 14th (Light) Division Insignia.png
caption	Insignia of the division.
dates	September 1914 – March 1919
country	UKGBI
branch
type	Infantry
size	Division
battles	World War I

The 14th (Light) Division was an infantry division of the British Army, one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener during the First World War. All of its infantry regiments were originally of the fast marching rifle or light infantry regiments, hence the title "Light". It fought on the Western Front for the duration of the First World War.

The division was disbanded by March 1919, and was not reformed in the Second World War.

Order of battle

The division comprised the following infantry brigades, which underwent major changes between February 1918 (the Army's brigade reorganisation from 4 to 3 infantry battalions) and June 1918 (rebuilt after the losses of the German spring offensive).

;41st Brigade:

Before June 1918
- 7th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (left February 1918)
- 8th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 7th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
- 8th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
- 41st Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918)
- 41st Trench Mortar Battery (joined May 1916)
After June 1918
- 18th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
- 29th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
- 33rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Rifle Brigade)
- 41st Trench Mortar Battery ; 42nd Brigade :
Before June 1918
- 5th (Service) Battalion, The Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- 5th (Service) Battalion, The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) (disbanded February 1918)
- 9th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 9th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
- 42nd Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918)
- 42nd Trench Mortar Battery (joined April 1916)
After June 1918
- 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- 16th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1st City)
- 14th (Service) Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- 42nd Trench Mortar Battery ; 43rd Brigade :
Before June 1918
- 6th (Service) Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
- 6th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
- 6th (Service) Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
- 10th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
- 9th (Service) Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (joined February 1918, left April)
- 7th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (joined from 41st Brigade February 1918)
- 43rd Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 16th MG Battalion March 1918)
- 43rd Trench Mortar Battery (joined April 1916)
After June 1918
- 12th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian)
- 20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)
- 10th (Service) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
- 43rd Trench Mortar Battery

; Divisional Troops :

11th (Service) Battalion The King's Regiment (Liverpool) (pioneers) (left June 1918)
15th (Service) Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (pioneers) (joined June 1918)
249th Machine Gun Company (joined July 1917, left October 1917)
224th Machine Gun Company (''joined November 1917, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918''')
14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (formed March 1918)
14th Divisional Train Army Service Corps (100, 101, 102 and 103 Companies)
26th Mobile Veterinary Section Army Veterinary Corps
215th Divisional Employment Company, Labour Corps (joined June 1917)

Royal Artillery

XLVI Brigade Royal Field Artillery
XLVII Brigade RFA
XLVIII Brigade RFA (left January 1917)
XLIX (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA (broken up October 1916)
V.14 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery RFA (joined July 1916, left January 1918)
X.14, Y.14 and Z.14 Medium Mortar Batteries RFA (formed March 1916; Z broken up February 1918, redistributed to X and Y)
14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (left 8 June 1915)

Royal Engineers

61st, 62nd and 89th Field Companies
14th Divisional Signals Company

Royal Army Medical Corps

42nd, 43rd and 44th Field Ambulances
25th Sanitary Section (left April 1917)

Battles

Second Battle of Ypres

Hooge (German Liquid Fire Attack) – 30 and 31 July 1915
Second Attack on Bellewaarde – 25 September 1915 Battle of the Somme
Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916
Battle of Flers-Courcelette – September 1916 Battle of Arras (1917)
The First Battle of the Scarpe – 9–14 April 1917
The Third Battle of the Scarpe – 3–4 May 1917 Third Battle of Ypres
The Battle of Langemark – 22–27 August 1917
The First Battle of Passchendaele October 1917
The Second Battle of Passchendaele November 1917 First Battles of the Somme 1918
The Battle of St Quentin – 23–25 March 1918
The Battle of the Avre – 4 April 1918 Hundred Days Offensive
The Battle of Ypres 1918
The advance in Flanders

Commander

Major-General Thomas Morland (7 September – 17 October 1914)
Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue (17–22 October 1914) acting
Major-General General Victor Arthur Couper (22 October – 30 December 1914)
Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue (30 December 1914 – 3 January 1915) acting
Major-General Victor Arthur Couper (3 January 1915 – 22 March 1918)
Major-General Walter Howarth Greenly (22–27 March 1918)
Major-General Sir Victor Arthur Couper (27–31 March 1918)
Major-General Percy Cyriac Burrell Skinner (31 March 1918)

References

"The Long Long Trail".

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