4. At the end of July it was engaged on the Somme (Belloy-Barleux).
5. After August 19 it spent some days at rest near Cambrai, and came back into line until September 8 between the Mouquet Farm and Martinpuich. It suffered local attacks, in which it was constantly pushed back with heavy losses.
Flanders.
6. After a rest in the neighborhood of Cambrai it was sent to a calm sector to the north of Ypres, near the Ypres-Pilkem road.
Somme.
7. November 5 the division returned to the Somme (Warlencourt) where it spent the winter of 1916–17.
1917.
Somme.
1. In March, 1917, the 1st Guard Reserve Division commenced the withdrawal movement on the Hindenburg Line, leaving prisoners in rear-guard actions (PysGrevillers region). It was withdrawn from the front about March 20 to go to rest near Tournai.
2. The 1st Guard Reserve Division and the 4th Guard Division then became independent divisions.