After the division’s participation in the battle of the Aisne, Lieut. Gen. Loeb, its commander, was awarded the order Pour le Mérite. Again, the German communiqué of September 2 spoke highly of the fighting of the 56th Reserve Regiment. A captured regimental order mentions the fact that there had been many cases of the grippe. The division suffered such severe losses that most of the men from the 47th Reserve Division, dissolved in July, were sent to it. Nevertheless, the battalions were reduced to three companies in August. Despite its subsequent heavy losses (the 159th Regiment was reduced to 600 men, and the other regiment to about the same size), the division is still considered as being first class.
14th Landwehr Division.
COMPOSITION.
| 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | |
| Infantry. | 21 Ldw. | 10 Ldw. | 21 Ldw. | 10 Ldw. | 21 Ldw. | 10 Ldw. | 337 (2 Btn.). | |
| 38 Ldw. | 38 Ldw. | 38 Ldw. | ||||||
| 101 Ldw. | 46 Ldw. | 101 Ldw. | 346. | |||||
| 103 Ldw. | 103 Ldw. | |||||||
| Cavalry. | 93 Cav. Regt. | 2 Sqn. 6 Cuirassier Rgt. | 1 Sqn. 17 Uhlan Rgt. | |||||
| 2 Sqn. 93 Cav. Rgt. | 2 Sqn. 17 Uhlan Rgt. | |||||||
| 1 Body Hus. Rgt. | ||||||||
| Artillery. | 82 F. A. Rgt. (1 Ers. Abt.). | 217 F. A. Rgt. | Art. Command: | 253 Ldw. F. A. Rgt. (3d Btry. 1st Abt.) | ||||
| 908 F. A. Btry. | 217 F. A. Rgt. | |||||||
| Engineers and Liaisons. | 1 Ers. Co. 23 Pions. | (414) Pion. Btn.: | 272 Searchlight Section. | |||||
| 314 T. M. Co. | 2 Ldw. Co. 3 C. Dist. Pions. | 514 Tel. Detch. | ||||||
| 1 Ers. Co. 23 Pions. | ||||||||
| 314 T. M. Co. | ||||||||
| 338 Searchlight Section. | ||||||||
| 514 Tel. Detch. | ||||||||
| Medical and Veterinary. | 218 Ambulance Co. | 257 Field Hospital. | ||||||
| 143 Field Hospital. | 167 Field Hospital. | |||||||
| 257 Field Hospital. | ||||||||
| 170 Vet. Hospital. | ||||||||
| Transports. | 473 M. T. Col. | |||||||
| Odd units. | 155 Cyclist Co. | 155 Cyclist Co. | ||||||
| Attached. | 10 Landst. Inf. Rgt. | |||||||
HISTORY.
(346th Infantry Regiment: 5th Corps District—Posen. 10th and 38th Landwehr Regiments: 6th Corps District—Silesia.)
1915.
Russia-Poland.
1. The 14th Landwehr Division appeared in Poland about the middle of July, 1915, in the Sierpec area.
It appeared to be made up at this time of the 21st Mixed Brigade of Landwehr (10th and 38th Landwehr Regiments, taken from the Breslau Corps), elements of the Graudenz Corps, the 46th Landwehr Brigade (Pfeil Brigade—101st and 103d Landwehr Regiments). At all events, the 14th Landwehr Division does not appear to have received its complete coherence until the stabilization of the front which followed the summer offensive against the Russians.