Cotes de Meuse.
About January 23, 1917, the division was withdrawn from the Alsace front and sent to the Cotes de Meuse, where it took over the sector west of Fresnes en Woevre. April 15 the division moved toward the north and held the lines to the Etain-Verdun road.
RECRUITING.
Entirely from Baden.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The division was a defense division (May, 1918). Each company had one shock-troop squad per platoon (prisoners’ statements Dec. 8, 1917).
Like the 2d and 7th Landwehr Divisions, but to a smaller degree, the 8th Landwehr Division had some of its men transferred to active units; thus, in November, 1917, it transferred some men to 121st Division, then near it.
1918.
The division continued in the Woevre sector during 1918. Through failure to identify it, it was considered as out of line September 21 and September 25.