Forêt de St. Gobain.
3. On March 19, placed on the east bank of the Ailette, it covered the retreat of the 45th Reserve Division, and at the beginning of April occupied the sector Fresnes-Prémontré, where it was relieved about the 1st of May.
Oise La Fère.
4. After a fortnight’s rest in the forest of St. Gobain, it went back into line on the front south of Alaincourt north of Deuillet (May 16). It occupied the sector of the left bank of the Oise until the offensive of March, 1918.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The 13th Landwehr Division is apparently considered by the German High Command as fit only to occupy a quiet sector (February, 1918).
Shock troops have been formed from its regiments, but the men appear to have been trained for patrol work rather than for making genuine assaults.
1918.
Picardy.
1. The division was relieved about March 24. It passed the night at Versigny, and on the 25th reached Laon, passing by Crepy and Aulnois.