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15th (Scottish) Division

WWI British Army unit

Field	Value
unit_name	15th (Scottish) Division
image	British 15th Division (Scottish) Insignia.svg
image_size	175px
caption	15th (Scottish) Division insignia
dates	1914 – 1919
country	United Kingdom
branch
type	Infantry
size	Division
battles	First World War

The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served in the First World War. The 15th (Scottish) Division was formed from men volunteering for Kitchener's Army, and served from 1915 to 1918 on the Western Front. The division was later disbanded, after the war, in 1919.

First World War

Two men of the 9th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders with their pet cat at Martinpuich, France, 25 August 1916.

The division was a New Army unit formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division moved to France in July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front. The division fought in the Battle of Loos in which it seizing the village of Loos and Hill 70, the deepest penetration of the German positions by the six British divisions involved in the initial day. It later fought in the Battle of the Somme (1916) which included the battles of Pozières and Flers–Courcelette, the Battle of Arras 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres later in the year.

The North Uist-born war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna, a highly important figure in 20th century Scottish Gaelic literature, saw combat with the 7th (Service) Battalion King's Own Cameron Highlanders, 44th Infantry Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division during the trench warfare along the Western Front and vividly described his war experiences in verse.

General officers commanding

The division had the following commanders:

Appointed	Name
14 September 1914	Major-General A. Wallace
12 December 1914	Brigadier-General M. G. Wilkinson (acting)
15 December 1914	Major-General C. J. Mackenzie
15 March 1915	Brigadier-General F. E. Wallerstein (acting)
22 March 1915	Major-General F. W. N. McCracken
17 June 1917	Major-General H. F. Thullier
11 October 1917	Major-General H. L. Reed VC (sick 4 July 1918)
4 July 1918	Brigadier-General E. B. MacNaghten (acting)
9 July 1918	Major-General H. L. Reed VC

Order of battle

15th (Scottish) Division

Footnotes

References

Fred MacAulay (editor), ''Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna'', Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath, (1995), p. xxxiv

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