HISTORY.
(13th Corps District—Wurttemberg.)
1917.
1. The 26th Landwehr Division was formed on the Alsatian front at the beginning of the year 1917. Two of its regiments, the 119th and 123d Landwehr, forming the 51st Landwehr Brigade, had belonged to the 7th Landwehr Division until that time. Its 3d Regiment, the 124th Landwehr, came from the 2d Landwehr Division.
Upper Alsace.
2. Since its formation the 26th Landwehr Division has continually occupied the Upper Alsace front (north of Cernay, Hartmannswillerskopf).
RECRUITING.
The division is entirely recruited from Wurttemberg.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The 26th Landwehr Division is purely a sector division. Each regiment has an assault troop composed of young men.
1918.
Alsace.
1. The 26th Landwehr Division remained in the sector north of Cernay (southwest of Colmar,) throughout 1918.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
In view of the division having been kept so long in what was probably the most quiet sector on the whole front (only 1 prisoner was taken after Dec. 15, 1917), when the need for troops was so great that fourth-class divisions were frequently used on very active fronts, it would seem that the 26th Landwehr was one of the poorest divisions in the German Army.