The division was rated as third class. It was largely used on active fronts and did creditably.
255th Division.
COMPOSITION.
| 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | |
| Infantry. | 31 Ldw. | 30 Ldw. | 31 Ldw. | 30 Ldw. | 31 Ldw. | 30 Ldw. | 82 Ldw. | 68 Ldw. |
| 68 Ldw. | 68 Ldw. | 86 Ldw. | 94 Ldw. | |||||
| 1 Ers. Ldw. | (?) | 2 Ers. Ldw. | 32 Ldw. | 68 Ldw. | 153 Ldw. | |||
| 2 Ers. Ldw. | 3 Ers. Ldw. | 94 Ldw. | ||||||
| 3 Ers. Ldw. | 153 Ldw. | |||||||
| (Composition after August, 1917.) | ||||||||
| 31 Ldw. | 68 Ldw. | |||||||
| 94 Ldw. | ||||||||
| 153 Ldw. | ||||||||
| Cavalry. | Hus. Detch. | 4 Sqn. 7 Hus. Rgt. | 4 Sqn. 7 Hus. Rgt. | |||||
| 1 Sqn. 15 C. Dist. Landst. Cav. Detch. | ||||||||
| Artillery. | Art. Command: | 301 F. A. Rgt. | ||||||
| 301 F. A. Rgt. | ||||||||
| Engineers and Liaisons. | 2 Ldw. Co. 11 C. Dist. Pions. | (255) Pion. Btn.: | 255 Pion. Btn.: | |||||
| 1 Ldw. Co. 16 C. Dist. Pions. | 1 Ldw. Co. 8 C. Dist. Pions. | 1 Ldw. Co. 8 C. Dist. Pions. | ||||||
| Metz Landst. Pion. Co. | Landst. Ers. Co. 11 C. Dist. Pions. | |||||||
| 455 T. M. Co. | 209 Searchlight Section. | |||||||
| 15 Searchlight Section. | 255 Signal Command: | |||||||
| 255 Tel. Detch. | 255 Tel. Detch. | |||||||
| Medical and Veterinary. | 623 (?) Ambulance Co. | 627 Ambulance Co. | ||||||
| Field Hospital. | 192 Field Hospital. | |||||||
| 566 Vet. Hospital. | ||||||||
| Transport. | M. T. Col. | |||||||
HISTORY.
(Former Metz Detachment. 68th Landwehr: 16th Corps District—Lorraine and the Rhine Province. 94th Landwehr: 11th Corps District—Electorate of Hesse and Thuringia. 153d Landwehr: 4th Corps District—Prussian Saxony.)
1915–16.
Lorraine.
1. The 255th Division is the former Metz Detachment, the composition of which was remodeled and which was changed into a division in May, 1917.
2. The Metz Detachment, composed of the 31st Landwehr Brigade (30th and 68th Landwehr Regiments) and of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Ersatz Landwehr Regiments, occupied the same sector of Lorraine between the Moselle and Abaucourt (north of Pont à Mousson) from the end of October, 1914, to 1917.